Hi guys, This is a weird problem to do with a harddisk and its powering. Here is what has happened, and what I have done. 1. Friend brought HP PC over, not power, so replaced the 300W PSU with a 400W Enermax and now PC completes post but complains of no Hard disk - cant even hear/feel the hard...

I've got a network 3.5 TB Lacie HDD which, in addition to a 10/10/1000 LAN port, also has 3 eSATA and 1 USB 2.0 ports. I am wondering if, instead of going through a LAN and a router, I can simultaneously connect sevaral PCs directly to the HDD through the eSATA/USB2.0, or are the eSATAs/USB ports...

My new HP PC is just out of warranty by 2 weeks, and the hard drive crapped out :( Aside from the fact that HP won't help (neither will Hitachi) I am faced the following problem of recovering data from the drive. The symptoms are as follows: Vista began with BSOD in normal and safe mode, tried to...

Dear all, this is just a short note of something that resembles a UFO sighting. In our daily practice of an industrial/embedded HW assembly shop, we're using Linux live CD (or NFS boot) to test outgoing hardware. It's based on Fedora 5 user-space (selected bits and pieces) combined with some more...

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Hi, all ! My WD 640GB drive is running at 7200 rpm and it's noisy and it's scorching hot ! I ran some test and found out that the drive's AAM (automatic acoustic management) setting is set at the max --- 254 --- and I would like to find a way to set the AAM down so that the drive is not so noisy...

I have had a string of bad luck getting good hard disk. My PC's original 320GB HD is okay. Still working today. Since I'm doing 3D simulation, 320GB HD just isn't enough. So I added a Seagate 500GB HD to my PC. That Seagate gave me lots of problems. Got a replacement from Seagate and still lots...

Hi all, I configured my BIOS so it handles the SATA AHCI feature which allows SATA disks to be hot-plugged on my computer. I also replaced my Windows XP disk driver with the Intel AHCI disk driver so the AHCI can also be managed under Windows XP. I tested it and it works fine : if I boot my...

Hi, I have a small NAS (Dlink DNS 323) and love it. I haven't run out of space yet (2 750's, not running in RAID) but i want to put a few backups on these drives and then put them in a safe place and replace them with 2 of segates 1.5tb drives. My questions a #1) Is there a case/box out there...

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.

Tony wrote: Is there one that will tell me how many platters, etc... are in a WD HD? Yep; several: IE, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, etc. Joint point the browser of your choice to www.WDC.com, armed with the HD model number, and look up the specs.

Hi I'm running XP Pro SP2 and have a RAID1 array that I save my backups to. Once the backup has completed I then copy it to a removable drive. For the past few days Ive found copying from the RAID array painfully slow i.e 3-4 times longer than usual. e.g a 4 GB backup comprised up of two 2GB...

Samsung sata 1tb hd reviews..?

An operational amplifier, often called an op-amp , is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with differential inputs and, usually, a single output. Typically the output of the op-amp is controlled either by negative feedback, which largely determines the magnitude of its output...

Previously "bit errors" were discussed. That was when wrong content was read from a disk without error messages or warnings. Typically there was a pattern. An example may have been that 1 bit location in each 16 bit word was always returned as 0. Currently I have an 8 GB USB disk (USB flash...

esata with PCMCIA card vs USB 2.0...??

I bought a 2 1/2 inch 160 MB SAMSUNG external hdd using USB that worked fine until this morning.When i plug it in now, windows does not see it. It is not displayed in windows explorer, . However, the "Safely remove hardware" icon does appear in the task bar and when i click on the icon, the model...

Bootable esata expresscard and recommend ations...? There seems to be a issue booting from esata cards: Does anyone have anyone know which esata expresscards are bootable...? Can someone recommend a Esata card. The Frys PPA brand is supposedly bootable, but their support is lacking. The SIIG...

Hi, I need to replace the hard drive in an Apple eMac G4 700Mhz. The service manual says "The hard drive has 3 thermal pads. If the thermal pads become damaged, replace them." (Apple part No. 076-0950) OK, I want to change them, but they're unbelievably expensive for three little pieces of...

My system is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC running as a desktop, dual boot Mandriva 2008.1 and Win XP Pro. I have 2 drives installed, a WDC WD400BB and a Seagate ST3400633AS. Yesterday, I installed lm-sensors and KSensors, and I saw that while the WD drive was loping along at 37 degrees C, the...