Being in need or a spare 6TB drive for my FreeNAS machine, I found a Seagate-recertified SAS drive with more then 4 years warranty remaining. But whether I plug it into a motherboard SAS port or a port on the add-on SAS card, the "busy" light stays on the whole time. Is this normal SAS drive...

Looking at the cheaper drives, they don't seem to list this info any more. I would guess some that were TLC have gone downhill to QLC.

Can anyone tell me if hard drive spindle speed is an important factor to consider when purchasing a hard drive? Or should I just concentrate on average latency, average access, and max. full seek time? I ask because two hard drives with a data rate of 80mps can differ in these other...

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Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (rev 1.1) CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600 Disks: WD Caviar Green (EADS serie) SATA2 (1TB, 1.5TB) Seagate Barracuda Green SATA3 (2TB) for my W7 partition Memory: 4x2GB Corsair l DDR2-800 memory Chipset: Intel ICH9R configured in AHCI mode Hi all,

Suppose someone visited your office or home and tried to make a voice recording using a hidden recorder. If they used a older-style dictation machine based on tape then you could detect the electromagnetic transmissions from the dictation machine when it was recording. But how would you detect...

Hi all, Here is my "home-made" system: Mobo: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 (rev 1.1) CPU: Intel Quad Core Q6600 Disks: 2 Western Digital Caviar Green SATA2 (1TB, 1.5TB) + 1 brand new Seagate Barracuda Green SATA3 (2TB) for W7 Memory: 4x2GB of brand new GSkill DDR2-1066 memory (in...

Do I always need to close or stop a USB flash drive before I remove it? I'm using XP. In XP's Device Manager there is an entry for Disk Drives and when I look at the Policies tab for the flash drive, it says: "Optimized For Quick Removal. This setting enables write caching on the disk...

I have an IBM deskstar GXP75 - supposed to be one of the bad ones, but it's worked fine for me for 7 years on my dvr computer. I've recently had all sorts of weirdness on this machine. Video drivers not there on one boot, then there the next. USB network adapter not recognized on reboot, then I...

I have been trying to discover a workaround for accessing a Hard Drive locked via the ATA Standard. I have copied various posts regarding my quest below. I would really like to hear from anyone that has knowledge of the ATA Standard Hard Drive Locking Technology, and/or has successfully unlocked...

Finally, exhausted from recent numerous reinstallations of windows and all programs due to corruptions caused by Windows updates, I am ready to try Ghost. After installation of Ghost 9.0 and Microsoft Net Framework 1.1 on my Windows 2000 (SP3) system with a 250 GB Hard Drive in 3 NTFS partitions...

I installed a new 200GB hard drive as a slave drive using western digital data lifeguard tools. After uninstalling some software, Windows 2000 (SP4) now reports the drive as unformatted. I have used various utilities to confirm the drive is ok, and the data is still there (it is) If I use...

With four or more channels please. Adaptec, Promise, LSI? I never liked SIIG from about 10 years ago I had a bad experience.

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2016" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-benchmark-stats-2016/ More hard drive stats than I have ever seen. Th4 4th quarter 2016 table covers 79,939 drives. The lesson is, don't buy hard drives as they are only going to fail ? Lynn

Are they really that bad? -- @~@ You have the right to remain silence. / v \ Simplicity is Beauty! May the Force and farces be with you! /( _ )\ (Fedora 15 i686) Linux 3.3.1 ^ ^ 01:55:01 up 2 days 6:12 0 users load average: 0.00 0.01 0.05 �借貸! ��騙! ��交! �打交!...

Hi, Right now we are looking for the relaibility study of the disk, tape, magneto-optic disk etc. which are primarily involve in the mass storage. Our requirement is any of the tape or above device data to predict the relaibility. I'll deeply appriciate if anyone can help me out to get the data...

"Mutton Jeff" wrote in message ... On 12/12/2009 18:13, Bilky White wrote: Thank you Rod. Huh? I was thanking Rod for you. You thanked Arno and I didn't want Rod to feel left out.

On Sun, 07 Dec 2003 08:29:43 GMT "Newton Lee" wrote: Any suggestion if I should choose AMD or Intel platform ? Does AMD still have the VERY HOT issue ? Neither AMD nor Intel make mass storage devices so this isn't really the best place to get an answer to that...

As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS on an active partition when booting it up for the 1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen" by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you have to open...

Data Recovery on Memory Stick (USB Disk - USB Recovery) This is the best info I was able to use for USB Recovery & Memory Stick Recovery What happens if your precious data is lost? You have a damaged or broken USB thumb drive or digital camera flash card & lost your