Anyone have any thoughts on which is going to give me better write speeds.. I know raid0 should be much better and if i combine it with raid1, redundant.. But I'm assuming when I backup my servers to (this backup server) across the gigabit network, my write speeds would max out at say 60 MB/ s...

Anyone have any thoughts on this PCIe card, motherboard combo with this server rack: Server rack device: Supermicro 2U SC825TQ-560LP (only supports low profile cards) with this: Motherboard: Asus...

New PNY 1GB USB2 flash drive: 979MB FAT partition. Repartitioned/formatted in Win2K Disk Management: 972MB FAT partition. Repartitioned/formatted in Win98 w/DOS fdisk/format: 977MB FAT partition. I can use SYS.COM in Win98 to make any of the above bootable as a USB ZIP drive. In WinXP the...

Hi, I need to test some software that reacts to a drive (specifically, SATA drives) reporing a SMART failure. Specifically, I want the SMART failure to be reported by the drive while in operation: * system starts up with drive not reporting any failure * after some time (ideally I can control...

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Seeing as my next motherboard only come with a single channel PATA controller and I regulary have 3 or 4 DVD drives in my case I need to find a PATA controller card which actually works with ATAPI devices (ie CD/DVD drives). Most cards seem to be software RAID and support only HDD. One chipset...

I have a WD 320GB SATA drive that I want to reset the S.M.A.R.T. because I want to see if the error is due to the SATA cable or the drive itself. The drive was having loud clicking noise before, but the noise is gone after I changed the data cabe.

Hi: Why do hard disc drives use magnetic discs? Since non-volatile flash RAM chips are not yet feasible for HDD- substitution, why not replace the magnetic platters with optical ones that use 400 nm lasers to write, read, erase, and re-write data? Optical platters using 400 nm lasers would...

Dear all, I've been trying to find a software to monitor my HDDs with S.M.A.R.T. However, none of the softwares I tried can detect the S.M.A.R.T. information. I tried: - HDD Life - HD Tune - Sandra - Lavalys - PC Wizard...

Maxtor 40 GB ide hard drive ata 133 3.5 N 40P. Spins, but I get no OS. I took it out put it in another PC, will not show up as a second drive (I changed it to be the slave.) I also have a usb to ide adapter. The drive is recognized by xp pro and I can see it in the device manager, but I cannot...

Hi. I've tried a borrowed Spinrite 5.0, but it locked up for some reason... does it need 386+? I'd like to try a version more in keeping with the age of the laptop, but capable of handling an IDE-drive - hence 3.1 or 4.0 I think. Anyone have a copy they no longer need, please? TIA and regards -...

Hello all I have Maxtor HDD 250GB and some problem Way don't access on Windows Vista Could you please let me know use way Thank You DS5MBA

I'm using Acronis version 10 When I perform a back up of c: to my external drive and I go into the xp defrag program the back up copy on the external drive is compleaty red,is this normal.Ghost 10 did the same thing.Should I defrag which takes a long time or just leave it alone?

I am looking at purchasing a NAS, i've been looking at the Synology 407e, Buffalo TeraStation Live and the Infrant ReadyNAS NV+ . My problem is that none of these or any others boxes that I can find supoprt native encryption and I want to be able to encrypt some if not all of the data stored on the...

I've just bought an external hard hard drive for laptop. It sits happily on my desk, and seems to be working fine, but I have one concern - how much of a risk is to leave it by my speakers? At the moment it's sitting about 2-3 inches in front of my right speaker. I've heard that this could cause...

Hi, I have Win2K pro, SP4 rollup. In February '07, I bought a Western Digital USB 2.0, 120 GB Passport Portable HDD, 5,400 rmp, from Costco. Preformatted as FAT32. Works great so far, auto installed properly Questions, not covered in any literature which came with the drive:

I have a PT800CE-A motherboard and two PATA IDE drives. I am replacing the failing IDE boot drive with a new SATA drive. But when I configure the BIOS, I have to put the mobo's SATA channel into IDE mode (the only SATA options are RAID or IDE) after which POST reports the SATA drive as IDE...

Hi Just wondered if anyone can tell me what the difference is between the Icy Box IB-128SK and the IB-138SK? The info Ive seen on any reseller web sites gives the same generic spec for both models. Does Icy Box have their own web site?

Hi: Why do hard disc drives use magnetic discs? Why not replace the magnetic platters with optical ones that use 400 nm lasers to write, read, erase, and re-write data? Optical platters using 400 nm lasers would surely have advantages over magnetic platters. More data per area, and less...

I had a RAID 1 system which has failed. I don't want to buy new RAID hardware so my problem is to recover my files from the harddisk. I have tried by means of FindPart where all seemed to work fine apart from the fact that all the files copied have a non valid format. I simply cannot open the JPG...