Got an automated message from smartd about a change in the SMART status of a 2TB Seagate drive, shows 584 bad/reallocated sectors. Confirmed in Gnome Disk Utility. Seatools extended test and SMART extended test inist the drive is OK. I also ran a "secure erase" on the drive, which should write...

http://www.hardocp.com/news/2013/09/28/flooding_threatens_thai_hard_drive_production/ Again? :( -- "I'm not a worker ant. I'm like a queen. Or maybe a king. But you never hear of king ants." --Sean Bentley /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ ...

What are the names of the Seagate product lines that correspond to WD Blue, Black, Red, or Green? -- Reply in group, but if emailing remove the last word.

SMART long test shows 90% remaining, but also 9 Current Pending Sectors (was 3 before the test). Does that mean 10% of the sectors are bad, or only 9? And what do you use to read stubborn sectors? ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED...

Hi, a couple of people I know just bought the same model of GPS receiver (big one-day sale at a local retailer). Now, they have noticed that it has horrible performance, it takes forever to find any Points of Interest (POI's), among many other things to do with searching on it. So I did some...

Hello. Is it me or are those desktop IBM PCs' internal memory card readers really bad? I owned two of them (cost $15 IIRC) so far. Their big CompactFlash/CF memory card reader slots' pins keep getting bent every time I insert an old memory card. I even do it slowly and softly. I did not have...

I have four Seagate ST2000DM001 drives with three different firmware versions. When I check for firmware version updates by entering the serial#,... Drive #1 (received as warranty replacement for failed ST32000641AS): "important update" available, but when I use the firmware update tool to...

I've been using Macrium Reflects (free version) to do some cloning of single-partition Windows 7 OSes from one drive to single partitions on another drive. The copy of the OSes go well, but there seems no way to tell Reflect to include the boot sector or the MBR as well. I've had to resort to...

When starting up a clone of Vista/Win7/Win8 for the FIRST TIME, is it OK to let the clone see its "parent" OS? For WinNT/2K/XP that was a no-no that could lead to loss of random files. Does that danger still exist? *TimDaniels*

On Friday, May 3, 2013 4:36:35 AM UTC-4, Bernhard Kuemel wrote: Hi! I'm planning a robotic facility that needs to maintain hardware (exchange defective parts) autonomously for up to 1000 years. One of the problems is to maintain firmware and operating systems for this period.

I had assumed that the "retail" versions of Seagate's HDDs were the same as the "bare drive" versions except for the packaging and the included cables, yet I wondered why the "retail" versions were sometimes cheaper than the "bare drive" versions with the same capacity (at such vendors as...

I have a SATA drive I got out of and older laptop running vista. I attached it to a USB/ATA/SATA bridge. It had a blue titled text HP recovery partition made obviously by vista installer CD and another partition whose title is in black text. First off I reformatted the partitions to wipe the old...

I have a drive caddy with one SATA bay and one bay for either a 2.5 inch IDE drive or a 3.5 inch IDE drive. I have no problem installing SATA drives or 2.5 inch IDE drives in it but I just can not seem to get my 3.5 inch IDE drive in it. I think it is because the 3.5 inch IDE drive has two...

I switched my boot drive to be a storage drive. I reformatted it to get rid all of the files in there. I successfully did it. I transferred many files into that drive. Yesterday, that drive started to disappear from my computer. Then I reconnected the cable and got it back. Unfortunately, I only...

TRS-80 should do the trick, Barney. "Bernhard Kuemel" wrote in message ... Hi! I'm planning a robotic facility that needs to maintain hardware (exchange defective parts) autonomously for up to 1000 years. One of the problems is to...

"Char Jackson" wrote I have no experience with Linksys firmware on a WRT54GL. I flashed all of my GL's to dd-wrt immediately after unpacking them. I have a DLink-632 wireless router, and I'm a little disappointed with the User's Manual which I find to be unhelpful for a moderate...

Hi all, My friend has a HP DV4000 laptop. It is quite old and only has an IDE disk interface. He asked me to upgrade to increase the general speed. * On the one hand, replacing the 2x256 Mb of So-Dimm by 2x1 Gb will certainly help. * On the other hand, I decided to replace the old IDE HDD by a...

Well the price did improve, though not to the level before the Thailand floods. My theory is the NSA Prism program is sucking up the supply of 4TB drives. While this may sound far fetched, if you look at the history of the U-2 spy plane, it used a fuel similar to an oil used to kill mosquitoes...

Fry's is selling the 32Mbyte cached version of this drive for $169. PLU6943757. This is the slower 5400RPM 4TB. http://www.frys.com/product/6943757#detailed

Hi there. I have a question on the use of a home server in a dusty environment. I am about to move to a house which has recently been renovated. The renovation included, among other things, sawing through the concrete slab that separates the ground floor from the upstairs (i.e. the upstairs...