Forum: Storage (alternative)
May 14th 20, 04:15 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
December 2nd 19, 10:15 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
November 25th 19, 02:15 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
November 23rd 19, 10:18 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
November 23rd 19, 03:23 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
November 23rd 19, 03:22 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Forum: Homebuilt PC's
July 13th 19, 05:27 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.msdos.misc
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Replies: 5
Views: 668
PCI IDE card
On 7/13/19 9:26 AM, T. Ment wrote:
I'm looking at PCI IDE cards on Ebay. I see mostly Promise and Adaptec.
I need one with a BIOS that can boot the drive connected to the card.
Any...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 3rd 19, 12:10 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,140
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 2nd 19, 10:44 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Views: 1,140
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
July 2nd 19, 07:31 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Views: 1,140
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
February 22nd 19, 07:42 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,062
"How Reliable are SSDs?"
On 2/21/19 10:50 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
Ugh! So it's a [WD] blog where the guy cautions *against* using 'drive
writes per day' because it's *not* a good metric for measuring drive
endurance,...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
February 22nd 19, 04:08 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,062
"How Reliable are SSDs?"
On 2/21/19 8:59 PM, Mark Perkins wrote:
I've never seen an SSD rated that way. I've seen TBW and "years" (the
latter for warranty purposes), but never what you described. Is there
a specific...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
February 22nd 19, 01:31 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 12
Views: 3,062
"How Reliable are SSDs?"
On 2/21/19 3:19 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
1) do they fail faster than HDDs,
It depends on the workload.
SSDs are write sensitive. So anything that writes a lot of data will
cause them to fail...
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Forum: Storage (alternative)
January 14th 19, 07:35 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Replies: 5
Views: 1,020
Fast way to wipe an external HDD?
On 1/13/19 10:28 AM, Kirk Bubul wrote:
Question: Is here a good free wipe program that would wipe these external
drives in less than a workday? Once wiped, I will throw these old drives
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