Is it normal for 5-year-old Taiyo Yuden and Ricoh CD-R disk rated for 4x to burn reliabily at 24x ? Nero must have misread or ignored their maximum speed ratings and burned them at 24x (drive is Acer/BenQ 48x16x48), but they verify fine and are readable even in an ancient CD-ROM drive that has...

hi, I'm about to upgrade the hard drive in my gateway m275 (1.4 pentium m, 256mb ram) and i was looking around and i saw that there are a few drives on the market with 16mb buffers (mainly the toshiba MK5024GA). i was wondering, does this realy help, or is it overkill? thanks for the help,

Using Win 7 I have a USB dock, and it worked fine before, under win10 and maybe under Vista. Never got this message. Now, maybe because I'm using win7, every time I plug in the dock, I get this message for every data partition as it starts up (except an empty partition on a different drive)....

Hello. Which fast, internal SATA HDD(s) would be good to handle over 8 TB of data? They need to be from http://cdw.com/ though since my employer uses that company. It/They need(s) to work with this current year old machine specifications: Dell Vostro 430 Mini Tower H57 (224-8158), Intel Core...

I'm beyond aggravated. I've upgraged dozens of hard drives in the past using the floppy to format the new drive and copy the original drive over to the new one. Apparently the days of simplicity are over. I tried using the Maxtor Maxblast software since the new drive is a Maxtor 80g ata133...

What is the minimum configuration for a Windows-based network file server for a small SOHO LAN? Would you use Win2K or XP Pro? The idea is to put disk resources in one machine for ease of maintenance and reduced cost. -- Map Of The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy: http://www.freewebs.com/vrwc/

Hello, I have a P166 computer running Windows ME on a 40GB Western Digital hard drive. The BIOS limits the system to seeing only 8GB of the drive, so the whole partition is 8GB. My question is, is there any way to make another partition in the other 32GB without reformatting the entire drive? I...

Hi! Are there any good free disk disk defraggers that can be run outside of Windows like with a boot disk/disc or before Windows is loaded? Sometimes, files can't be defragged because of them being in used. Thank you in advance. :) -- "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be...

So Seagate and other makers are getting ready to introduce 20 TB HDD's to the market. According to Seagate, its fastest drives are capable of sustained 250 MB/s transfers (if you believe them). It would take 30+ hours to entirely fill such a drive with data at maximum speed! Is that too much...

What wears out in an HDD? Is it only the tone arm that breaks? or can the bearings the platter rides on break??? Good watches use jewels, rubies, as bearings; and cheap watches use metal. What do hard drives use? I googled but couldn't find much about this. Does the spindle really ride on...

Either I'm having bad luck or USB flash drives suck even with various sizes (e.g., 512 MB to 32 GB), well known brand names (e.g., SanDisk), and cheap/free ones (SP and Patriot ). They don't seems like they don't last longer than a year. I keep them in my drawers, wallets, etc. Some just...

hi to everyone and sorry for the engrish , but i really need help with my hd so here is the problem i buy a new hd 200gb maxtor , and i use partition magic to create two partitions and of 10 gb for the os and the rest for random data but the problem is with the ******* windows i go to proterties...

Windows XP Home (SP1) I originally had and still have a 15 GB HD, using NTFS, which had the OS and everything else on it. I just installed a Maxtor 80 GB DiamondMax Plus 9 Model 6Y080P0 ,which has a 5 MB Buffer, configured (with the jumpers on the back) as a slave. It shows up Computer Management...

Hi all, In my personal stuff, I retrieved an old IBM PS2 laptop. The laptop won't boot anymore and I do not plan to repair it. I extracted the IBM WD-387 60MB hard disk which probably works and I want to extract the precious data from it. I found that the drive interface is ESDI (an ancestor of...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats Q1 2020" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-q1-2020/ "At the end of Q1 2020, Backblaze was using 129,959 hard drives to store customer data. For our evaluation we remove from consideration those drives that were used for testing purposes and...

What is the best way to partition a 2tb hard drive for Windows 7 64 bit? I am thinking of a small "C" drive for Windows and programs and a big "D" for all my data. Another possibility is a small "C" drive for Windows. A medium sized "D" for my programs and a big "E" for all my data. Which do...

Hello. For about two weeks ago, I had two of these incidents (13 days apart between them): hdb: dma_timer_expiry: dma status == 0x61 hdb: DMA timeout error hdb: dma timeout error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } ide: failed opcode was: unknown hda: DMA disabled

**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** Do computer repair centers ever replace HDs with smaller ones and not tell customers? I took my Compaq equipped with 80 gig HD to ****USA but got back a 40 gig. My data wasn't lost, but the drive is definitely smaler, according to...

Hi there, I am planning on building a new computer system. Given the current cheap price and massive capacity of hard drives, I am thinking of using a raid array. To me, raid 1 seems the ideal solution. Raid 1 greatly improves data security, which is very important to me (and why I would never go...

John H wrote in message ... Anyone have any recommendations for removable IDE drive bays on a home system? I recommend they all be avoided and firewire external drives be used instead. With firewire you do have a proper formal