On 12/6/15 4:49 PM, Freejazz wrote: Hi, i formatted a usb pendrive 3.0 on from my Synology Ds215j in Ext4 and I copied some movies. Why cannot I read the pen on Pc or smartphone (Note 4 with Lollipop Android system)? When i connect the pen to pc Windows asks me to format the pen. ...

At present I have an ATA133 on IDE 1 and two optical drives on IDE2. Want to add a second ATA133, but I have always been led to believe it is best for speed not to have anything sharing with a HDD. So what is the best arrangement? HDD 1 & 2 on IDE1, or HDD as master on IDE 1 & 2 and the opticals as...

In my home network. 2 pc's and 1 tablet PC All ran through router (wired and wireless) Tablet does not need a redundant back-up Main PC stores video and images other PC stores images. I lost 2 hardrives in 2 days!!!

I had foolishly bought about 3 years ago two external ESata/USB hard drive systems ( Eagle Consensus ) of the same make with a 1 TB drive already in each. Since then I have learned to buy the external enclosure and hard drive separately, but at the time I did not understand what was...

I have stated previously that I have an older drive that seems to get a lot of Spin Retry Counts in SMART, but other than that it's rock solid: it has outlasted a whole bunch of newer drives that were previously giving no error messages whatsoever in SMART. Well, it looks like I've now also...

According to this video: https://youtu.be/ffHIY6pOJUk Win 10 v2004 has a bug in it where it keeps coming back after every reboot and it says that the SSD needs to be reoptimized again. But it realizes that it's an SSD, it's not actually running a defrag on the drive, all it's doing is running...

"How Reliable are SSDs?" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/how-reliable-are-ssds/ "What’s not to love about solid state drives (SSDs)? They are faster than conventional hard disk drives (HDDs), more compact, have no moving parts, are immune to magnetic fields, and can withstand more shocks...

Sadly This 10TB Hard Drive Is Designed For Servers, Not Your Laptop http://gizmodo.com/sadly-this-10tb-hard-drive-is-designed-for-servers-not-1691245306 Hitachi Global Storage Technologies—aka HGST, aka a subsidiary of Western Digital—was recently showing off its gigantic new 10TB hard drive...

"Firm Seeks Class Action Suit Over WD’s SMR Hard Drives" https://www.tomshardware.com/news/wd-class-action-lawsuit-smr-hard-drive "Hattis & Lukacs, a class-action firm, has begun soliciting plaintiffs for a potential class-action lawsuit against hard drive maker Western Digital (WD) for...

John H wrote in message ... I need a physics lesson. Assuming sea level, how do you convert between sound power (bels) and sound pressure (dBA)? I think you'd have to assume that the acoustic power is being emitted equally in...

Yesterday I came to the machine, which is always on, but when idle, cuts off the monitor, and nothing would happen (nothing would display) when I used the mouse or keyboard. The first two attempted reboots didn't get Windows to load, but on the third, Windows started the system performed normally....

Hi, I am transferring an old hard disk (20 Gbyte Maxtor D740X) from an old PC to a newer one (Dell Dimension 3000). On the old machine the disk was the boot drive, and so was configured as the Master device. On the newer machine it will be a Slave device. I have the "Jumper, CHS, and Install...

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 13:25:51 -0500, Paul wrote: The 8TB drive is 3.5". The power requirements are 12V for motor, 5V for logic. 3.5" drives are available up to 14TB or so in capacity (at least, at your nearest retailer you might find them). Some of the larger ones than that, are...

Hi all, Yesterday night, my Windows 7 started a disk defragmentation (Windows 7 defaultly scheduled a disk defrag once a week). Unfortunately, the Murphy's law was verified once again : the defrag started at 1:00 AM and my house had a general power failure at 1:10 AM in the middle of the C:\...

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/01/hard-disk-reliability-examined-once-more-hgst-rules-seagate-is-alarming/ :( -- "Even the ant has his (her) bite." --Turkish /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality...

So it does 300 MB/s, whereas the bigger enterprise disks only reach 250 MB/s I imagine this would be used as a fast temp disk that gets a good thrashing, but then wouldn't you have an SSD for that?

I am trying to install my new WD drive as the Master in a two drive system. Moving the old drive to the slave, my new WD drive as the Primary master and setting it as the active drive. My old drive was according to the Windows 2000 Disk Manager and Partition Magic, Disk 0. After changing the...

Has anyone else modified XP to give it the RAID 5 capability of Windows Server? According to the result of his test (porting the Windows RAID to another system) it looks like Dynamic Disks are a lot more robust than I...

"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2020" https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze-hard-drive-stats-for-2020/ "In 2020, Backblaze added 39,792 hard drives and as of December 31, 2020 we had 165,530 drives under management. Of that number, there were 3,000 boot drives and 162,530 data drives. We...

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6668305/description.html Excerpt: "FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of one embodiment for the staggered startup of HDDs 251-254 at an HDD interface. At process block 310, electrical power is received from the computer system 100 power supply (not shown) at HDDs 251-254....