Does anyone know of freeware which can diagnose & recognize an already crashed hard disk on an IBM laptop? My kid's IBM laptop hard disk "stopped working" (it had been making noise, he said). - The IBM laptop would not boot no matter what I tried - I put the laptop hard disk in a different working...

"John Smith" wrote in message ... This web site at http://www.ata-atapi.com/ says that SATA is currently unreliable. Is SATA really this unreliable? Yes, this is why it is so important to use SCSI when you are building a system that is...

I have downloaded and installed the trial version of "Active Smart 2.41" (http://www.ariolic.com). As soon as I started the programme a warning popup windows appears with the following message: "WARNING! The drive Maxtor 6Y120MO, 122.9 GB indicated a S.M.A.R.T error condition. Immediately...

One choice of drives is a 5900 RPM 256MB cache. The other is a 7200 RPM 64MB cache.

From what I've read, it seems easier to use BootMagic than the bootloader that comes with Windows. But I might be wrong. I don't know this subject. This is where I'm at now: As you can see by this screenshot of Computer Management: http://home.kc.rr.com/plumb/comman.gif I'm running on WinXP...

Hi, I'm trying to decide between these two options, for a server running Linux (RedHat 9, most likely), which will be used as a database server, running PostgreSQL (version 7.4, most likely). We are talking about peak load in the order of 20 or 30 inserts per second, with clients connecting from...

Is it possible to get a vintage 5.25" PC floppy drive connected to a modern PC with no floppy controller and just USB/FireWire inputs? Do IDE 5.25" floppy drives exist? If so, I could drop one into a USB enclosure. Is there an adapter that would let me connect a floppy drive to an IDE...

Hello. I don't know much about hardware so I am asking you for help. I've been using normal Samsung HDD 1TB for last 3 years and now I got new 60GB SSD 2,5". I am trying to connect both to run OS + some main programs from SSD and other storage from old HDD but there are several problems I am having...

Question for the experts..... I have never used Ghost before so here is my setup. Win xp sp2 with two internal sata drives each in a removeable drawer. System drive is C Storage drive is D

A month ago to this day I posted a description of the following issue to this newsgroup. I've just now returned to the issue and I'm still open for any suggestions (excuse me for the article length but trying to include all significant points). 1. In late May I implemented a "Windows Update" on a...

Is it really possible to "Quarantine" three system hard drives from a single hard drive when that hard drive is used for internet related purposes?(The idea is to keep them from from viruses, hacking, ect.). Thanks a lot. Darren Harris Staten Island, New York.

I'm assembling a new system in a couple of months, and am facing the old dilemma: SCSI or IDE disks? I have traditionally insisted on SCSI disks because they're faster and more reliable. Lately I've been having some hearing problems, though, and the drive noise is bothering me. Thus I'm motivated...

A few weeks ago 2TB Seagate Barracuda XT bare drives were $130 at NewEgg; by the end of last week they were $250. But on Saturday I bought the retail version of the same drive at the Chicago-area Fry's for $160 (limit one per customer). Two weeks ago I bought a retail-package 2TB Barracuda LP...

Is there anywhere to get an mbr for a 40G hard drive using win98? (besides getting another one and setting it up).

Hello! I have an old Maxtor 53073U6 (Firmware DA620CQ0) Serial No (K60BMHKC). I noticed the HDD was reading slow like less than 3 MB/sec. Today I noticed it went under 1 MB/sec in some benchmark tests (hdparm /dev/hda command in Debian/Linux). It is not consistent. It never goes above 5 MB/sec....

http://e.nikkei.com/e/fr/tnks/Nni20110307D07JF795.htm "Hitachi Ltd. will sell its wholly owned hard disk drive business to U.S. company Western Digital Corp. for around $4 billion, the Nikkei reported Monday." - Franc Zabkar -- Please remove one 'i' from my address when replying by email.

Hi, We've bought the following server: 2 x Xeon 3.2Ghz 1mb lvl2 cache Intel Server Board SE7320SP2LX 4 Gb of DDR400 REG/ECC 12 x +9 SATA, 120GB, 8MB, Fluid (in hotswap casings) And put in an Adaptec 21610SA + battery option.

I know someone that needs about 10 hard drives wiped. What programs come with the ability to wipe drives?

Hello all, Which of the two following architectures would you choose for a high-perf NFS server in a cluster env. Most of our data ( 80% ) is small ( 64 kb ) files. Reads and Writes are similar and mostly random in natu Architecture 1: Tyan 2882 2xOpteron 246

Tony wrote: I need a 24" cable and I can get a StarTech round for a good price. Any signal integrity issues with this brand (since they are so cheap)? Round cables are a bad idea. Cables over 18" are also a bad idea. Combine the two, and you're just asking for trouble.