I'm sure some of you guys have used one of these with practically every brand including older drives. What brand and type of adapter do you use? -- Reply in group, but if emailing add one more zero, and remove the last word.

After Intel's nearly killed USB 3.0 in favour of its sciene project, LightPeak, it looks like it's now going the other way with suggestions for new features for USB 3.0+. It's considering making increasing amount of power USB ports are able to deliver, by both increasing voltage and amperage....

cpliu wrote: Timothy Daniels asked: You've tried it on a laptop? What laptop has an external SATA or eSATA port? Asus G50Vt-X1 I bought almost 2 years ago. Please say whether you were able to boot from the HD on the external eSATA port. I searched high and low for a laptop that...

On 05/10/2010 10:13 PM, Smarty wrote: The drive was originally recognized only as a RAID device by my BIOS even though I had never set up a RAID of any type and merely was using a SATA drive originally connected to a non-AHCI controller in my former computer. The new computer, unlike the...

I have to open an external HD enclosure with unusual screws. They have 6 nodes like flowers and is rather small. My toolkit does not have it. It looks like the last one in http://zoice.com/2009/01/04/screw-head-classifications/ but with 6 nodes. Thanks,

Same exaggeration in other SD cards I have. Has any manufacturer been prosecuted for these exaggerations ?

Should have been called, Booting Windows etc. from the USB port On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:44:58 -0400, Bill Blanton wrote: On 9/28/2010 17:20, mm wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:08:24 -0400, Bill Blanton? Windows won't boot from removable drives by default.

Earlier, I think we were talking about changing the electronics on a hard drive. A video I watched said that only the torx screws have to be removed (and I guess a connector unplugged) and thus implied that no desoldering was necessary. Is that true? I know how to desolder and solder, but if...

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 19:44:58 -0400, Bill Blanton wrote: On 9/28/2010 17:20, mm wrote: On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:08:24 -0400, Bill Blanton? Windows won't boot from removable drives by default. Any way around that or to override the default?

(I included a storage ng, because all the problems related to partitioning. Does that make it relevant to that ng?) The final question is:, Following the seemingly successful shrinking of a partition, XP will boot fine from the MS dual boot, but win98SE just says "C: not found. (Enter Abort,...

Here is an interesting claim: Western Digital WD5000AAVS 500GB 5400 to 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Hard Drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136230 RPM: 5400 to 7200 RPM That said, I am aware that WDC uses "IntelliPower". Unfortunately WD's public information...

A WD user posted the following alert to WD's forums: http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop/A-faked-wd2003FYYS/m-p/56320 Here is the original discussion in a Chinese forum: http://we.pcinlife.com/thread-1496042-1-1.html It appears that a drive bearing the label of a Western Digital WD2003FYYS 2TB...

A Western Digital user recently suggested that his 500GB WD5001AALS-00E3A0 Caviar Black drive may have been fitted with two 500GB platters which had been...

I am aware that hard drives report their RPM via word 217 of their 512-byte Identify Device data block, but is there any utility that can actually measure it? Nowadays Western Digital obfuscates the issue with its Intellipower marketing speak. The best method I have been able to find is to examine...

A WD user recently reported that two Western Digital WD6402AAEX-00Z3A0 Caviar Black drives benchmarked with vastly different transfer rates. In fact the newer drive tested at 106MB/s vs 133MB/s for the...

I have been using Acronis True Image 2010 and most of the earlier versions for many years, and am finding the latest version to be buggy and the user interface to be cluttered. Is there any really good, very reliable disk imaging and recovery program out there to take the place of Acronis? In the...

My WD SATA 6 HD has several UNSAFE SHUT DOWN COUNTs. Should one enable or disable it? I know there is a performance boost in having it enabled, but is it noticable? I have an i7 930 CPU.

I'm confused. Does the U3 on Sandisk flashdrives make that brand better for running mobile versions of software? If so, how come the other makers don't come up with something similar, or if they have it, how come I don't see it advertised on the packaging! :) Or can one just install U3 on other...

On 14-Sep-10 02:38, Yousuf Khan wrote: Has anyone heard of this new standard? It seems to be a combination USB/eSATA port that provides power to eSATA devices just like USB devices get power from USB ports. Never heard of it. Never seen it before as well.. -- @~@ Might, Courage,...

I'm confused. Does the U3 on Sandisk flashdrives make that brand better for running mobile versions of software? If so, how come the other makers don't come up with something similar, or if they have it, how come I don't see it advertised on the packaging! :) Or can one just install U3 on other...