Do solid state drives wear out quickly? SORRY ABOUT THE SUBJECT LINE. SOMETHING JUST HAPPENED TO THE KEYBOARD AND IT ONLY TYPES LEGIBLY IN CAPS, AND THE SUBJECT LINE RUNS THE WRONG DIRECTION Somone somewhere wrote that because it's so fast, he wanted to get a solid state drive to hold his...

It seems like a couple of external USB drives simultaneously went offline briefly and then came back into service again. These two drives were in the same enclosure, so it's not surprising that they both experienced simultaneous problems. I saw the following errors in the Windows 7 event logs,...

Hello. I have a client who is currently disappointed with his two last USB flash drives/sticks that broke from their keychain holes due to heavy keys. He uses them with his keychains and never remove them. I noticed his keys are heavy (tilted when connected to USB ports) and gravity pull them...

After having worked successfully for a couple of years with my current DVD drive (recorder) there are now problems since a few days. I can write (=burn) as usually onto a DVD. But when I want to read the content of such a DVD nothing is listed. The drive letter is shown as usual in...

I'm setting up a SATA RAID 5 array in an XP system (not the boot volume) and would like to expand it later. What's do you think of dynamic disks? I googled for their disadvantages, and there doesn't seem to be a serious drawback, but it's sort of a one-way street. -- Reply in group, but if...

Ok, I have now changed the load cycle timeout on my WD5000AADS to never without any problem. A quick web-serach for the tool used (WDIDLE3) revealed that this problem is not limited to this particular drive and happens Under Windows, Linux and OSX. My conclusion is that HDD manufacturers in...

Dear all, I have a WD5000AADS that I pulled form an external enclosure. This drive has about 200'000 load-cycles after 6 months use in a desktop and is slowly killing itself that way. I expect it will die in a year or so. I am also sure this is not a display bug, if I do a long disk read, the...

I hope this isn't too stupid a question. OEM vs. Retail hard drive. I'm not concerned about the warranty, but that I've never installed a SATA drive before and this will be the only drive on the computer. I have XP Home or maybe Pro SP3. Does a retail box contain drivers or instructions that...

Hello to everyone!! Just came back from holidays and first day at job started with a server failure!!!:mad::mad: It is a poweredge 2600 server which we had it working on Raid5 (3 hard disks) One of them broke down so we removed it and since it is Raid5 it continued working with 2 hard disks. As...

I have a new 1tb Seagate 3.5" drive that periodically is going into some kind of access mode where something internally is pulsing twice a second... yet watching the system via filemon shows that there are no actual i/o being performed with this disk, so it seems to be some sort of internal routine...

I've had very little experience with external USB drives made especially for backup. I backup to ordinary hard drives using software of my choosing, but several computer novice friends use these USB backup drives. It seems they come with backup software installed on them. Two of these friends...

I have a USB external CD/DVD writer. Its fan has a bad bearing and sounds like a helicopter. Can I just take the fan out? Is it really needed? Home stereo DVD players don't have fans and I have never heard of one overheating. I use the thing to watch a DVD now and then, and to burn the...

At one point, we had about 10 WD 150 GB 3.5" raptors around here. The 7th one failed yesterday with the click of death. Are others experiencing this massive failure rate with the WD 150 GB raptors ? I am replacing them with a WD Caviar Black 1 TB drive which I have not had fail yet. Thanks, Lynn

All the SATA drives now seem to be SATA 3 Gb/s or higher. My Dell Inspiron 4600 without a hard drive that a friend gave me was sold in January 2004. It's new enough to use curreent SATA drives, right? I hope. If not I guess I can find an older drive.

I have a perplexing problem here. I went on vacation outside of the country, and when I got back my Windows 7 desktop lost almost all of its user login accounts (5 altogether), except for one. The one that isn't lost, cannot be logged into, as the password doesn't get accepted. The machine also...

Ha, found it again. Pretty interesting and conclusive. They do not fear naming names, I guess they are not afraid of being sued. They do have failure rates per manufacturer in relation to sales and also have insights into age at failure per manufacturer. While the sample of 4000 drives is not...

Can I put a SATA card in computer that doesn't have a SATA bus Hi, I want to install a SATA card with external ports in my current computer, so that I can copy files from my current hard drive to a new internal SATA drive (which will be in an external enclosure). On two or three web pages,...

I use direct access files, meaning updated in place, for many purposes including: . email storage . USENET article storage . virtual disks Will TRIM support in the drive affect the performance of solid state disks used on my Windows 7 system? In particular, I don't see how the drive would be...

My friend has a Win XP PowerSpec B647 desktop with two 250 GB hard drives configured in the BIOS as RAID0. It appears that whatever happens to one drive happens to the other, so when she was infected with a virus both hard drives were infected, and both were simultaneously cleaned by the same...

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