Hi All, I'm looking for a decent home NAS solution. I want a small, low power box that I can run headless and do the following: * serve up network shares at 100mbit speeds, preferably via SMB and AFP * run a bittorrent client on * run FTP * has a simple web-based admin page

Does anyone know how to partition a usb drive to CDFS? I researched a lot and cannot find anything helpful. I have yet to see anyone who has been successful in doing this. I know scandisk U3 drives have this partition. Any ideas? I have tried using various programs in dos, windows, mac, and...

Hi, I have a problem with RAID 1 (ADAPTEC ULTRA 320), when I install a Debian Linux don't recognize the Raid, see in many pages of internet and the problem solve with module a320raid, but when I remove a aic79xx module from my server i can remove. Do you solve my problem? Regards of Spanish.

Hello, someone long in business here? Until 1996 was with the Teac FD-505 a Combo (Dual) Floppy Disk Drive available which can handle 3,5" and 5,25" in one device. There were four model lines existing: FD505-000, FD505-100, FD505-200 und...

Hello I need a little guidance. Here is my setup. I have an IBM server with an integrated SATA Adaptec Raid 1 controller on the MB. I recently had a drive die in the array. Which according to the Array utiliity was in the port 1 position. I was getting the "no bootable drive/no OS" error. I...

According to the USB specification I should always be able to unplug an USB stick from my computers without having arsik to loose data. But this is not the case. Whenever I copy something onto my USB stick and plug the USB stick out then all the just copied data is lost. Is occurs with...

Are the sata cable different? If yes, how can I understand if by cable il 150Mps or 300Mps ? Thanks. Roberto

I have an issue relating SE disks,,,have a bunch of cables but the all three arrays working fine with a bunch of DF disks individuall. When putting SE disks into array, any of them, than the Scsi controller doesn't recognize the disks...in manual there is a difference between SE terminator...

Hi, I'm trying to determine why a hard drive will spin down, then pause, then spin up. I've owned it for more than a few years and its never done that before. I ran dx tests on the drive and it passed ok. I do have a UPS APC 650 400watt power supply that I plug the computer into. Recently I...

I have a test Windows 2003 server. Im trying to resolve a problem I have seen before in the disk management console of Win2003 (perhaps xp has it sometimes too) The disk is about 250 Gig. The upper screen of the comptuer management screen shows the list of the drives. The C drive has a capacity of...

Array consists of two HBA-s, each has four bay slots, +two ventilators and +two bigger redundant power supplys. It has 8x4.3GB DF Scsi disks inside. (i have another four disks of 9.1GB SE aside). What would be then's and today's usability of this array ? (cca.30GB space alltogether)

On 2 different servers with 3 different Maxtor OT4 USB drives, they aren't recongized as formatted, and after the server tries to format them (with a failure message) they don't work on XP any more. XP now says the capacity is 2.048 TB, and now Seatools diagnostics passes the long self-test,...

Our company stores and serves large number of documents to numerous users simultaneously but there exists an imbalance in frequent access of a document. It gets worst with increased growth of data. We need some solution with the help of which we could serve our documents more efficiently. Please...

hi, does anyone have the EXACT hard drive id (e. g. 7V300F0) handy which is part of the currently available "Basics" kits? Unfortunately there is lots of information about the specs, but no id anywhere. My assumption is that they are DiamondMax 22, as the MaxLine series seems to have expired by...

I would like to see a diagram of just how modern drive's read-wright arms are assembled. I am trying to understand how these get driven. In particular, I am interested in the magnetic configuration. I have tried Wikipedia and Google among other sources, but what I have found, leaves out details...

I have decade-old Western Digital, Maxtor and Toshiba drives still chugging away, but this putrid piece of penguin poop is already going bad. What the heck sort of company is this? I lost 5GB of important jpeg data and I am hopping mad. -- David Jones

My friend just gave me an external Western Digital HDD, it's a 250gb drive....model number WD25001032-001. The reason he gave me the drive is he didn't want to deal with the issue it has....you put the power cord in to the drive and the light flashes green. It's never terribly solid/bright, and...

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have an unbranded PC desktop that is 3 years old and has windows XP Pro SP2 installed on a SATA-150 200Gb Maxtor 7200rpm drive. I have been attempting to upgrade it to Windows vista ultimate but installing over the top keeps failing at the end when disk.sys is loaded and there is insufficient space...

I just began using the seagate version of acronis. I copied a bootable disk image from a 80G drive to a partition on a Seagate 500G external drive, L-drive, 100G. The size of the files on the 80G drive were about 60G. I then attempted to copy the image to a 320G WD drive. When I was about to...