Can anyone tell me if hard drive spindle speed is an important factor to consider when purchasing a hard drive? Or should I just concentrate on average latency, average access, and max. full seek time? I ask because two hard drives with a data rate of 80mps can differ in these other...

I haven't built a PC with hard drives in a few years and I have to say I am amazed at the hard drive market. First of all, it seems everyone bought everyone else. Samsung went to Seagate. Hitachi went to WD. Fujitsu went to Toshiba, which is presume is waiting to go elsewhere. Well now I can...

"Sammy D" wrote in message ... I use XP. I want to create a data partition on a new hard drive of approx 50 to 100 GB and I want to store only data in it (jpegs, mpegs, mp3s). Is it better to have it as...

Hi, We've bought the following server: 2 x Xeon 3.2Ghz 1mb lvl2 cache Intel Server Board SE7320SP2LX 4 Gb of DDR400 REG/ECC 12 x +9 SATA, 120GB, 8MB, Fluid (in hotswap casings) And put in an Adaptec 21610SA + battery option.

As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS on an active partition when booting it up for the 1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen" by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you have to open...

Not my words but wanted your input on the below: especially Rod Speed. "And then there are people who do more than write for magazines, have decades of real-world experience, who work with small systems to systems with hundreds of terra-bytes.... My experience with Windows NTFS and file...

I have an older PC (2.26 ghz 1gb ram)...here is what happened. I bought a new Seagate 400gb HD...unplugged my 120 and 80 GB Maxtors, plugged in the seagate, installed windows Vista (from msdn), was trying to get my Radeon card to work with windows aero. Shut down pulled out all the pci cards to...

Hello, I have a P166 computer running Windows ME on a 40GB Western Digital hard drive. The BIOS limits the system to seeing only 8GB of the drive, so the whole partition is 8GB. My question is, is there any way to make another partition in the other 32GB without reformatting the entire drive? I...

**** Post for FREE via your newsreader at post.usenet.com **** Do computer repair centers ever replace HDs with smaller ones and not tell customers? I took my Compaq equipped with 80 gig HD to ****USA but got back a 40 gig. My data wasn't lost, but the drive is definitely smaler, according to...

I run XP Pro. My mobo does not support SATA. I have several hard drives. All my HDD's are PATA and 133 MBps My operating system partition is on the primary master HDD. I have placed various cache files in a separate partition on a seperate HDD. ------

Have Winxp with SP2 Hd 80 gig got a 500 gig external USB HD and now looking for a good backup program Want to be able to "create" a copy on the new drive so I can see the files. Any suggestion? -- Cheers _ Jóseph _

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I just talked to my friend who gave me the Dell computer, and he said that his repair guy told him the reason his harddrive failed may (likely?) have been a surge or something coming from the power supply. Is this a cause of harddrive failure? A common cause? A conceivable cause but really a...

Sorry for repost, I posted to sci.electronics before, which does not exist. 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. What...

Hello. I think I have a dying external HDD in an Antec enclosure (USB). I haven't used it for months until today when I wanted to do some backups. http://pastie.org/private/kyewx2ur1w74h5pah6lrdw from gsmartctl v0.8.6-2 for Windows after an extended self test (supposed to take almost four...

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Either I'm having bad luck or USB flash drives suck even with various sizes (e.g., 512 MB to 32 GB), well known brand names (e.g., SanDisk), and cheap/free ones (SP and Patriot ). They don't seems like they don't last longer than a year. I keep them in my drawers, wallets, etc. Some just...

Do I always need to close or stop a USB flash drive before I remove it? I'm using XP. In XP's Device Manager there is an entry for Disk Drives and when I look at the Policies tab for the flash drive, it says: "Optimized For Quick Removal. This setting enables write caching on the disk...

I am looking for opinions on what a decent tape backup for a PC workstation might be, somewhere around 40 gigs or so, speed is not the biggest issue, mostly being reasonablly priced and around 40 gigs (give or take a few). I'm wondering what people think the better brands are for this type of...

I've tried almost a dozen so far, most in the $39 range. All had issues. What I'm after is on-the-fly backup software that instantly backs up files as soon as they are modified or created. That's it. 99.9% of backup software is time triggered which is pretty damn lame. Anyone know of any backup...