I have been looking everywhere for reasonably cheap (cost wise) esata/ usb, 4bay, RAID 1 storage solutions and while there are some undisputedly top notch options out there they seem to start at $500 on up and none seem to support 2tb internal drives. I happened upon one post in the...

Need something that will image a partition so it can be restored when "user" has give it a traumatic 12 months so not a drive cloner really any software you can recommend will be appreciated

Without taking pc lid off - is there a software way to indicate if sata or ide ? maybe a smart indicator function ? its so i can help someone find out which theres is and then i'll get them a new one thanks

Hi: Why don't computers companies make and sell platters individually in stores? CD-Rs and DVD-Rs are sold like that. So why not make HDDs with push- open slots like with CDs? If HDDs had push-button-open/close slots and platters were sold by themselves, then I could say whatever I want on

I wonder why a two-core CPU with lets say 2 * 1.7 Mhz is theoretically faster than a single core with 3.4 MHz. I am NOT talking about additional features like Pipeling and Hyperthreading but the core fact that the power is split over two cores. Assume the following situation: A NON-THREADED...

Hi I'm running XP Pro on an ASUS A8N-SLI with AMD X2 4200. Every weekend I do a full backup. For speed, I create the first backup to an internal Samsung 1TB F1 drive - one of the current fastest drives. I then copy the backup files to an internal mirrored RAID SATA drive.

I have set up a RAID5 with 4 x 1TB disks and a SiL3132r5 controller. It works well as a logical 2.9TB NTFS drive using Vista Business. I am trying to read sectors to their own and have hit a problem. I open the drive either as Drive G \\.\G: or \\.\Phys2. Either way I can read sectors and it...

i am looking for a drive tray for the ibm intellistation m pro (model 6218). i cannot find a part number for this. can anybody tell me what it is and/or where to get one? thanks.

On this PC (Quad Core Q9450 2.66 GHz, 4 GB DDR2 667 MHz) I have 2 identical Samsung HD753LJ 750 GB hard drives. The spec at http://www.testfreaks.co.uk/internal-hard-drives/samsung-hd753lj/ says: "The Samsung HD753LJ has 512 bytes per sector and a rotational speed of 7200 RPM. In terms of its...

Whenever I get a new laptop, I sell my old laptop (sans the hard drive, which I keep in storage) on eBay. I now have three 2.5" hard drives just sitting around and to consolidate space, I've stacked them on top of each other. Problem is, when doing this, I can feel the permanent magnets. 3.5"...

I replaced the case fan. That brought both of the drives back down to a comfortable 38 - 39 C. They stay there consistently. The old one was still running, but apparently not running fast enough. I ordered the new one from TigerDirect, and it was here in a couple of days. Of course, the...

I had added a 3TB RAID, NTFS to my Vista Buisness , SP1(32) system. I have set the attributes to share in the same way I have on a 500GB drive in the Vista machine. My problem is that I would like to access the drive from XP systems over my network. I can do this with the 500GB drive, but...

Currently looking to build my own NAS device using (probably) an Intel Atom ITX MB running some flavour of Linux. I'm looking for a small case to take up to 5x3.5" drives but cant find anything smaller than standard ATX cases. Also as Atom boards don't come with RAID is there any cheap...

I have several USB hard drives, but I cannot unplug them because theyt are in use by other programs. Is there a program that tells us which programs are using (have locked) a certain USB hard drive? Thanks! PS. Windows XP, 3.4GB CPU, 2GB RAM.

fat hdd with bad mbr needs to backed up to flash but most of Hirens recovery tools do not see flash at all, so any ideas wellcome.Booting with Dr Dos boot cd enables usb flash access but is that going to help the aforementioned apps, or app has to be written-programmed to support usb drive?

Hi My current motherboard (ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe) has an on board Sil 3114 controller. I'm currently using it in RAID1 mode. Are these on board controllers any good? If not why not and any suggestions for an alternative?

Hi A friend of mine has an I-O Data HDC2-U 2TB External USB drive. It has 2x 1TB drives with are currently seen as two separate drives. It has the facility to be used in RAID1 mode which we would like to use, but we cant figure out how to switch it. All the instruction manuals I've found on...

I have a 5-year old Dell 400SC running as a home desktop, with 2 drives. A ST 3400 633AS and a WDC WD400BB. I have been using lmsensors and ksensors to monitor the temp on these for a number of months. They normally both run very close to 40 degrees C, which is below the alarm...

Up till now i've always done the following 1 drive - Primary is C - then an Extended with maybe 1 or 2 logical for data any comments on this as i think / thought extended is the way to go ? only 1 o/s to boot from

My PC has been taking a slow turn of lately with the Computer loading slow, video play back spluttering, Erratic CPU speeds and forever loading games and low FPS. I recently re installed my windows vista after trying Windows 7 Beta and it hasnt improved (it started when W7 was installed). Last...