A couple of years ago I returned a failed ST32000641AS under warranty and received in its place an ST2000DM001 (similar specs); the latter model normally has only a 2-year warranty, but the replacement they sent has the remainder of the original drive's 5-year warranty. Now I have just returned...

Seagate offers low-cost 8TB hard drives | ZDNet http://www.zdnet.com/article/seagate-offers-low-cost-8tb-hard-drives/ "Sold by Seagate under the "Archive Label" brand and aimed at those looking for a cost-effective storage solution, the drive retails for around $270, which is far more palatable...

450 GB platters at 620 Gb per sq in. Suggests it is not using shingles, helium or other new-fangled stuff. So why can't Seagate make more GB in 2.5 inch?

"Intel and Micron are going to kill the hard disk drive" http://www.itworld.com/article/2851057/intel-and-micron-are-going-to-kill-the-hard-disk-drive.html "That seems to be ending. Not long after Samsung announced a 3.2TB SSD drive, Intel announced its alliance with Micron Technology will...

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/14/11/12/1946208/data-center-study-reveals-top-5-smart-stats-that-correlate-to-drive-failures Interesting reads. :) -- Quote of the Week: "... The press can hold its magnifying glass up to our problems, bringing them into focus, illuminating issues heretofore...

22-9-2014 I started a thead "Subject: how can BIOS boot priority settings change all by itself??" Today customer had bootproblems again. Message: diskdrive failed. Couldn't believe that because I had fitted a new drive. I booted into the BIOS setup and was baffled when I saw the detected...

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Hi, I measured transfer speed on my disk, which I use for some time already, the result is he http://bit.ly/1uojTNe. Interestingly, the size of the ragged part, which is about 60% of the disk's capacity, is (almost) exactly the size of my system disk, while the other part of the disk,...

I have been testing the utility above for making a backup of my CMOS settings. I seem to have made a backup to file succesfully: PhoenixTechnologiesLTD-M2.03A.rom But now what can I do with it?? They seem to have forgotten to implement an option for restoring the file? I had a look into the...

Mark F wrote: There are some SSDs that automatically switch from SLC to MLC when the disk gets full. Originally was found to be an undocumented feature in some drives; if you allocated less than 1/2 or 1/3 of the drive to partitions, then the firmware would run the...

Do any SSDs use any pages to monitor the expected life of the product. Pages in various physical locations could be set to known values. These pages would not be refreshed by the usual periodic rewrites or moving. As the device had data written to it, additional pages would start to be used for...

I'm planning to purchase a new Dell PC. I'm a fairly typical user- I use MS Office, Paintshop Pro for some amateur photo stuff, and I now enjoy amateur video editing- and I do lots of web surfing. I'm comparing a Dell with a SSD boot drive (and a 2nd drive for data) with a standard hard drive...

I need a new cheap hard disk (not SSD) for my old desktop PC. The broken drive was a MAXTOR STM380211AS (80 GB, 7200 RPM, SATA-II) on mainboard Asus P5L-VM 1394 To be sure about compatibility I want to check the following. Are SATA-II and SATA-III interchangeable?

I tried to install Centos 7 on an old PC that had Vista on it. But installer did not detect any disks. Drove me mad for hours. Eventually I found out this PC originally had RAID mirror on it. One of the drives shat itself, so owner carried on using one disk, just by deselecting RAID in BIOS, and...

"IBM wants to kill the hard drive it invented" http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/04/ibm-wants-to-kill-the-hard-drive/ Lynn

Hello. I know some people prefer to use portable external HDDs, with their power AC connection enclosures or adapters, for reliability and stability. Some people prefer those tiny HDDs with only their USB connections for both power and accessing data (easiest and lightest). Are there any...

I wrote a free Windows program (tested on Win7 SP1) intended to test the speed of any storage device (HD, SSD, USB flash drives, ...). This is an image of the main window (95,5 kB): http://cristianopi.altervista.org/StoStaTestV100.gif This is the link to download the program (1,8...

I have been installing a PC for someone, mainboard Asus P5L-VM 1394. New hard drive http://www.mycom.nl/opslag/interne-harde-schijf/7624/seagate-desktop-hdd-500gb-35 I installed Windows XPSP3, all hardware drivers and applications. Problem is this: I did all settings in the BIOS, SAVED them...

"Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB Hard Drives" http://www.seagate.com/about/newsroom/press-releases/Seagate-ships-worlds-first-8TB-hard-drives-pr-master/ Yes, seven platters. Reminds me of the old 12 inch winchester with the removable 10? platters. Wait, here is WD with a 10 TB drive! ...

What is the best way to disable auto run, auto play definitely for ALL devices in Windows XP SP3? The auto-interference is very annoying... -- |\ /|