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...

Hi. Something baffles me. Perhaps someone here can explain it. If I go to the properties of my C drive on my laptop, the size reported is smaller than the total size of the files and folders on drive C: http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/2843/dataa.jpg How can the size of all selected files and...

I just talked to my friend who gave me the Dell computer, and he said that his repair guy told him the reason his harddrive failed may (likely?) have been a surge or something coming from the power supply. Is this a cause of harddrive failure? A common cause? A conceivable cause but really a...

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'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...

I bought Samsung 1.5 GB HDD and put it to the enclosure with E-Sata/USB interface. If connected by E-Sata the disc is recognized OK. If I use USB connection, the HDD is not recognized. The problem was partially solved with Disk Management- Import foreign disks. But every time I disconnect Samsung I...

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...

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.

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...

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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Intel 160 GB ssd drive now $425: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820167017 OK, this is getting very close to my buy point. Very close. Lynn

On 7/20/2010 12:06 AM PT, John Turco typed: I bought a generic eSATA PCI card, too. External hard drives that the only way to go for backups now. Quite true, and I crave eSATA's superior speed; USB 2.0 is merely too damned slow. Yeah, well USB3 just came out so...

I have this setup (generic internal DVD writer put in a external case with firwire connection) that worked fine in the past. I took the DVD out and connected to another PC so I could install a game from the DVD. I put it back and now my regular PC recognize it as removable disk instead DVD. How...