Hi all, On of my 2 TB HDD (formatted in NTFS) felt on the floor (the disk was off when it felt). At first, it looked as if the disk was still working fine but after one month of use, the disk began to fail and I completely lost access to my data a few days ago. Thanks to ddrescue (a wonderful...

I have several older systems, some with old USB 1.0 and others without USB. I am trying to figure out the best way to handle occasional swapping of drives from one machine to another. Originally I was thinking of using removable hard drive caddies. All drives I will be using are IDE, (ATA I...

Well, the Terabyte Hard Drive is no longer imaginary (1 Terabyte = 1,000 Gigabytes): http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?pid=10188 I'm sure others will follow from other manufacturers, if they haven't already. "The most powerful Hi-Speed USB 2.0 hard drive in a portable 5.25 1U form...

Partition Magic 8 is worthless for my system. I have two HD installed and both have the Active bit set. The BIOS is smart enough to know that and allows me to choose which one I want to boot from. Windows is not as smart - it issues a STOP0x9F POWER_FAILURE error when I shut down, presumably...

I need help with an uncommon matter. I have a USB drive (it's a 4Gb pen drive). What I need is a trick so that if one tries the drive on any PC it will appear to be not working (even to an experienced user). On the other hand the trick must be safe and reversible, that is, whenever I want the...

Hi, I currently in the process of creating a backup solution for the company I work involve, using xxcopy as the basis for it. I am backing up to a Thecus N2100 data storage unit containing a 400GB hard disk, which is basically a network storage device. Does anyone know if it is possible to get...

hi, I'm about to upgrade the hard drive in my gateway m275 (1.4 pentium m, 256mb ram) and i was looking around and i saw that there are a few drives on the market with 16mb buffers (mainly the toshiba MK5024GA). i was wondering, does this realy help, or is it overkill? thanks for the help,

Western Digital WD3200JB (8M cache, but not the fancy RAID edition.) Has anyone tried these? Can anyone comment on their reliability? They cost about the same as a 300Gb drive (from any manufacturer), and, all other things being equal, the extra 20Gb is worth having.

I'm assembling a new system in a couple of months, and am facing the old dilemma: SCSI or IDE disks? I have traditionally insisted on SCSI disks because they're faster and more reliable. Lately I've been having some hearing problems, though, and the drive noise is bothering me. Thus I'm motivated...

To All Cognoscenti, Greetings! I leave my computer on 24/7 to minimize damage due to heat fluctuations. Am I wise or foolish to do so? Thanks. Andy

How much space do I need to keep free on 250GB drives used for storage? I'm using diskeeper as a defragger which recommends 20% which is a significant amout of space

Slightly odd question.. but in absence of a real themometer, it may help me. What sort of temperature of metal (i.e. a hard disk outer surface) is needed for contsant contact with the skin to be painful? (after about 5 seconds contact?) cheers alex

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...

Eric, Several days ago, you called me a "troll" because YOU declared that I had "lost" an argument. First of all, there was no argument. Usenet has, (or at least until you arrived on the scene) always been about information exchange and discussion. Readers can draw their own...

Hello all, Which of the two following architectures would you choose for a high-perf NFS server in a cluster env. Most of our data ( 80% ) is small ( 64 kb ) files. Reads and Writes are similar and mostly random in natu Architecture 1: Tyan 2882 2xOpteron 246

The new DiamondMax 10 line should feature 16MB buffer on Parallel ATA models too, if I'm not wrong. On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 20:19:16 +0100, Davis Rorgh wrote: I use XP on my home system. I use only parallel IDE. For hard drives I tend to use Samsungs and Barracudas because I...

I have a scientific application which is gathering data in real time and the way things work out, I need to write 513k files to the hard drive in under 8ms each acquisition cycle (7.5 acquisition cycles per second). What is the most robust, reliable way to assure this kind of speed? We already...

OK, my Dell system crashed last week. With help from a Dell tech support guy, I did a quick format and reinstalled everything. Not doing the format, that is, just trying to get the Restore disk to do a "fix files" routine didn't work. Luckily I had backed up most important stuff, but it still...

There appear to be hundreds of software packages out there to restore an NTFS partition with a corrupted MFT. Does anybody know of any reviews with a feature comparison matrix? What utilities do you recommend?

I have an HP Pavilion 1090n computer with ASUS PTGD1-LA motherboard. This system supports SATA and I am adding a couple of external SATA hard drives in Vantec Nexstar cases. I will probably purchase Hitachi 7K500 drives, which support 3G. Question: does 3G SATA support have to be provided on...