Hi! Does anyone use these external 2 TB HDDs, that come with ESATA, USB2, Firewire 400/800 connections from http://www.fantomdrives.com/products/greendrive-quad.htm ? Do you like them? Happy with them? Thank you in advance. :) -- "Cheerios: Hula-hoops for ants." --unknown

I currently use 100 GB on my hard drive. I am thinking about buying the new Intel model 320 SSD in the 160 GB size. Is 60 GB enough slack room or do I need to be concerned enough to buy the 256 GB (more expensive) version ? I do not anticipate needing more than 20 to 40 GB in the next couple of...

I am trying to use Acronis True Image WD to clone a WD 2TB hard drive to a new 2TB Hitachi hard drive. I have tried several times to do this using all the options I can find. Every time I try it I get this error message: Failed to move the selected data. Make sure that your new hard drive is...

Hello... I would like to do a backup image of my laptop HD. The HD is partitioned C and D.... plus hidden partitions with the factory settings - (Windows 7) Acronis appears to let me just image the C drive.... but should I do a backup of the entire hard drive including all the partitions?...

My computer froze up during a partition merge using Partition Magic 8.0. I was merging a logical FAT32 partition containing my data, into the empty primary FAT32 partition (disk 2). Progress was approx 19% and then it froze. Partition Magic attempted to recover the PQRP partition, but froze...

After reading about the (not so) longevity of using CD-R and DVD-R as archival media I decided to get two 2TB Hitachi drives from Newegg keeping them mirrored in case one dies. As I was moving the data from the optical media to the fixed disks, about 10 of 350 or so optical discs I had gave me fits...

What is the best, free, drive cloning program for Windows XP Home SP3? I want to make an exact copy of a 5400 rpm 2TB Western digital drive to a 7200 rpm 2TB Hitachi drive. Since the two drives are the same size, this should not be too difficult. The drive to be copied has two NTFS partitions....

A friend of mine has managed to accidentally lock a laptop SATA drive, and needs his files back. The output from "hdparm -I" is: Security: Master password revision code = 65534 supported enabled locked not frozen not expired: security count

I used a program called SelfImage to create an image of the damaged partition, so that I have a backup in case recovery goes awry. So if the FAT is intact, I should theoretically be able to change the partition identifier from PQRP back to FAT32, and then access my files normally? Can anyone...

Hi there, I just put two new Seagate Constellation ES 500GB drives into my system and was monitoring their SMART data (via Everest) to see if anything looked amiss. I am noticing that the Raw Read Error Rates look substantially worse than my other dirves (full SMART report follows, please excuse...

If a RAID drive is disconnected and the system boots without it, should that drive be wiped before being reconnected? Would it need to be wiped if it was reconnected by hot-plugging, so the controller knows it is not current? It's hypothetical, so I'm asking in general whether it's software or...

I presume anything over 2 tebibytes will. Otherwise, I guess I must read the specs for every drive that I consider buying? I have a quirky software package that only runs under

In article , Anonymous wrote: I need a 1TB or larger portable hard drive for use in 3 world foreign net cafes. If this was my problem, I would certainly use a small drive that derives its power from its...

I just bought a DVR that needs a SATA hard drive. Because my computer is sometimes slow when it is dealing with large amounts of data, I decided to replace my 5400 rpm drive with a 7200 rpm drive and use the old drive in the DVR. The new drive is a Hitachi. I think the model number...

I currently have my Windows XP Home SP3 on a Western Digital 2tb green SATA hard drive. Sometimes my computer seems to bog down but StatBar usually says that the CPU is staying well below 100 percent. Would replacing this drive with a Hitachi 2TB 7200RPM SATA hard drive speed my system...

I have 3 Hitachi Deskstar SATA disks. There are two pins next to the data and power connectors that take a jumper, as used on IDE disks. In the old days, many drives had a jumper to limit them to 32 GiB or 8 GiB. I doubt that applies today, when the smallest for sale is something like 500 GB. I...

I've just bought a couple of these F4 2TB drives (the 4k ones), now given I'm still running XP I had to use there "Acronics Align Tool" so I downloaded it, installed it and ran it and it done what it needed to do and came back saying drive was now fine. Now I took a drive image before I done...

I have been looking at some hard disks from desktop PCs, mostly from domestic rather than business machines. This value is typically 200-400 hours. I came across one with only 4 hours, but was apparently a new disk (the dates showed the OS was installed only a few days before). Then I checked a...

Dear all, today I tried to connect to our DS3300 storage with Storage Manager client as I did it in the past, but the connection fails! If I try to ping the management interface adresses (2 controllers installed, static adresses) I got no response! I can't see any DHCP request, nor got an...

Just a link to a current /. story about malware that simulates drive problems tin order to get you to buy software to fix things: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/05/20/2334259/New-Malware-Simulates-Hard-Drive-Failure --