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Forum: Storage (alternative) April 26th 20, 07:30 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 9
Views: 2,890
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
What is "AC" with old hard disk?

VanguardLH writes:

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

Martin Leese writes:

Hi,

I am transferring an old hard disk (20...
Forum: Storage (alternative) April 26th 20, 01:33 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 9
Views: 2,890
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
What is "AC" with old hard disk?

Martin Leese writes:

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...
Forum: Storage (alternative) July 11th 17, 07:43 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 7
Views: 1,018
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"

Lynn McGuire writes:

"Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/

"For hard drive prices, the race to zero is over:...
Forum: Storage (alternative) March 28th 17, 03:07 PM Posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 24
Views: 1,684
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
floppy drive turmoil

Char Jackson writes:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 12:51:48 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Sat, 25 Mar 2017 14:04:07 -0500, Char Jackson...
Forum: Storage (alternative) November 3rd 16, 03:44 PM Posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 6
Views: 595
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Having some hanging issues when doing something on disk

Yousuf Khan writes:

Recently started noticing that whenever I do something like create a
new file folder or sometimes even start a program, Windows 10 just
hangs....
Forum: Homebuilt PC's January 21st 16, 05:34 PM Posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.arch,nl.wetenschap,sci.electronics.design
Replies: 5
Views: 129
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Cooling fan behaving strangely when it gets colder.

"SC Tom" writes:

"Skybuck Flying" wrote in message
...
Hello,

I just noticed something strange,...
Forum: Storage (alternative) June 3rd 15, 04:00 AM Posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 3
Views: 984
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Someone is screwing with me. Malware?

"J. P. Gilliver (John)" writes:

In message , Paul
writes:
[]
There is also more than one form of recursion....
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 15th 14, 06:18 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 18
Views: 6,609
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
"Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB HardDrives"

VanguardLH writes:

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

VanguardLH writes:

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

Yes, seven platters. Reminds me of the old 12 inch winchester...
Forum: Homebuilt PC's September 15th 14, 04:10 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Replies: 33
Views: 895
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Is 2.5 inch disk drive suitable for desktop?

kathy writes:

Can I pick your brains about a hard drive upgrade.

I have an old desktop PC with a 250 MB hard drive. I would like to
increase the storage capacity and...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 15th 14, 04:07 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 18
Views: 6,609
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
"Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB HardDrives"

VanguardLH writes:

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

Yes, seven platters. Reminds me of the old 12 inch winchester with
the removable 10? platters.

How did they manage a...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 14th 14, 05:48 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 18
Views: 6,609
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
"Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB HardDrives"

Lynn McGuire writes:

"Seagate Ships World’s First 8TB Hard Drives"
...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 5th 14, 04:03 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 10
Views: 582
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Mukii TransImp enclosu HD upside down

writes:

Thank you Mark, Rod, & Arno.

It amazes me that a film of air is able to keep the head off the
surface despite the fact that a spring is pressing the head...
Forum: Storage (alternative) September 1st 14, 06:08 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 7
Views: 398
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
What possible use for an HD with many bad sectors?

writes:

I recently found that the 2.5" 600MB HD on my laptop had 269
reallocated sectors, which I'm told is obscenely high. So I backed up
to another HD and am now...
Forum: Storage (alternative) June 30th 14, 12:36 AM Posted to alt.comp.periphs.hdd,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Replies: 46
Views: 1,670
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Is it true that it is a bad idea to put a swap/pagefile on a SSD?

Mine:

snowball:528$ free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 32216 31499 716 28 2368 22881
-/+ buffers/cache: ...
Forum: Storage (alternative) May 19th 14, 03:54 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 33
Views: 1,068
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Boot Problems (OT to my original newsgroup thread)

Frank Williams writes:

On Mon, 19 May 2014 10:30:02 +0200, Noob wrote:

Frank Williams wrote:

This is Usenet Not a Forum

Ant is right,...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 24th 12, 02:46 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 7
Views: 617
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
120GB PATA drive changes model number

Franc Zabkar writes:

On Tue, 23 Oct 2012 07:44:55 +1100, Franc Zabkar
put finger to keyboard and composed:

As you can see, there is an...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 22nd 12, 04:32 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

Mark F writes:

On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 15:37:59 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer
wrote:

(GMAN) writes:

In article...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 22nd 12, 04:29 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

Ant writes:

On 10/20/2012 11:04 PM PT, Joe Pfeiffer typed:

Oh, lord. Do I really have to find a specific HDD on that page that's
new? ...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 21st 12, 07:04 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

Ant writes:

On 10/20/2012 6:59 PM PT, Ant typed:

Umm... you can buy them today.

http://directron.com/idehdd.html

Aren't they all use
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 20th 12, 11:03 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

miso writes:

On 10/17/2012 11:28 AM, Rod Speed wrote:
miso wrote
gemelli47 wrote

I have a satellite receiver with built-in plug to connect a SATA...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 19th 12, 10:37 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

(GMAN) writes:

In article , Grant wrote:
On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:12:54 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 19th 12, 06:07 AM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

Grant writes:

On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 13:12:54 -0600, Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

gemelli47 writes:

Mike S.;1359665...
Forum: Storage (alternative) October 18th 12, 08:12 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Replies: 46
Views: 1,709
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
Adapt IDE hdd to SATA plug

gemelli47 writes:

Mike S.;1359665 Wrote:
In article ,
gemelli47 wrote:

...
Forum: General September 5th 12, 07:43 PM Posted to comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Replies: 3
Views: 5,594
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
why is this group so bad?

If there is anybody still reading this newsgroup, do you have any idea
why it seems to be so much worse than any other I've encountered for
spam hawking illegal crap?
Forum: General June 12th 12, 05:16 PM Posted to comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.comp.hardware
Replies: 14
Views: 946
Posted By Joe Pfeiffer
HOW2 copy IDE to SATA?

writes:

I read:
You can buy integrated motherboards that allow a computer to use
both SATA and IDE hard drives. However, only one of the two may be
used at any...
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