I setup a new server in an office. It is a very loud server tucked away in a sound resistant cabinet. To allow easy backup media swaps, I setup the backup so that it backs up to a removable IDE drive in the secretary's workstation. She swaps the drive out every morning.The server runs...

Hi all: I bought a Maxtor 7Y250MO SATA drive (the 250Gb. one) about 4 months ago to use it as a data drive (I have a Western Digital 120 Gb. as system drive). After a month and half (more or less) it started failing in the following way: there would be a "crack" noise coming from the drive, and...

Need to test my backup hard drive after it got dropped on the desk. Is it better to surface check the whole drive at once rather than surface check each partition separately? Would Svend's "Findbad" do this whole-drive check? Can any utility software get the hard drive to map any bad sectors not...

I recently installed a brand new Seagate 7200 Barracuda HD into my computer with no problems whatsoever. A "SMART" test via company online website shows "no parameters exceeded." Imagine my surprise when a trial SMART software which I downloaded for free indicated TEC in May 2004 (!!!). This...

Am sticking with PATA for the time being. Is anyone making a 10,000 rpm PATA drive?

Hi there, I have a problem with mi hd. I had a 40 Gb hd, installed win 98 in the first drive(C) and had some information on the last two drives(E,F). Once installed windows shows me a have only two drives, one(C) of 250 mb (where win98 resides) and a second one(D) of 39Gb completely blank. I have...

that "Rod Speed", one of this groups most prolific posters, has only posted 8 messages to this group so far this month, and that this sudden posting reduction coincides with the return of "Ron Reaugh"? Gee, it couldn't be that Ron^Hd and Rod^Hn are the same person, could it? 8)

We have an email server running a RAID5 (Hot Swap) storage setup with an Adaptec 2100s SCSI controller. Currently we have 4 older IBM 18GB 80pin drives installed. 1 drive is setup as the "Hot Spare". One of the drives just recently malfunctioned, and we would like to replace this drive with a...

Who is selling the cheapest IDE storage measured in cost per gigabyte for a UK user? Want to store about 200 to 250 GB of data on hard drive(s) which will be kept disconnected from the PC. I don't mind if the drive is 5400 or 7200. I don't mind if it is 100 or 133 Mbps. But I do not want several...

We are looking to sell the following disk Seagate ST118202LC 18.2GB 10,000rpm 14.00 each U.S Seagate ST136475FC 36gb W/5 year warranty 35.00 Each U.S Hitachi DK2372MC 73GB New 90.00 Each U.S Seagate ST150176LC 50GB Ref 47.00 Each U.S

Hello, (Please reply to the group, as my email is currently broken). I am unable to read any files from my primary slave drive, and would be very grateful for any advice from those more experienced. My primary master hard drive was partitioned into two partitions using Partition Magic some time...

Why do some hard drives spin more quietly than others of the same RPM, disk size, and bearing type?

I recently installed a 120 GB USB2.0 HD as well as a USB 2.0 card (ALI PCI to USB Open Host Controller), and want to make sure the HD is using the USB 2.0 and not USB 1.1 I am trying to resolve some video capture problems (dropped frames) and checked the system properties hardware device manager...

Hello, I have a 17GB external hard drive. I have been low-level formatting it with the SCSI utility interface upon boot-up (CTRL-A). It states it as size 17501 MB which is OK. Now I use FDISK with Windows 98, say to create Primary DOS partition and use maximum available space, but it only sees...

I purchased an Acomdata external 60 GB drive last year and started experiencing problems several months ago which I reported via emails to Acomdata on their website. They have not responded! Since the initial post, the drive appears to have crashed. My computer is a Dell 4300. How should one get...

FlashdisK USB 2.0 Pretec It functions well when reading. Whit writing protection "unlock" it takes a "writing protection" message. Is it broken? Thank you. Alberto

My WD 26400 HDD drive suddenly started making clicking sounds, initially at 10 to 20 second intervals ---- but soon almost continuously. Unfortunately, I failed to back-up the data prior to its rapid demise. The drive now 'clicks' continuously with only power applied (data interface...

I have a PC with a bios that reports my new WD HD is indeed 160 gig. My current 40 gig HD is NTSF one sector, XP, SP2 (release candidate). When I put the new drive on as a slave it is designated as drive "F" and only set up as a 120 gig sector formatted with NTSF. How do I set this up as a Drive...

hi, While replacing the hard disk on my friend's laptop the other day, I noticed that his Fujitsu drive states its current consumption as 0.55A while my IBM/Hitachi is 1.0A. I recently upgraded to a 5400rpm Seagate Momentus which takes 1.2A, and i sure seem to have lost some battery life! My...

Does anyone have any experiece with Iomega's 35Gb removable REV drive? If so, how do you like it? How reliable has it been? Any problems with it? Would you recommend it? Are there any other removable drives worth considering that are at least 10Gb per cartridge?