Does anyone know which is the defacto "best" performing SCSI RAID controller out there? (PCI 32-bit, preferably with cache memory.) It's difficult to establish this in the UK - SCSI is not at all popular, and SCSI RAID even less so. When the larger corporates got round to recommending Adaptec, I...

Can you recommend a better defragmenter than the one supplied with Windows XP? I'm using Drive Image to image two hard drives to a third one every night. The images are split into 600MByte chunks so there are about 40 x 600MByte files written every night. The drive is never more than about 60%...

Hi, try mst Defrag 1.5. http://www.mstsoftware.com Kind regards, Rob

On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 20:22:37 -0400, maria wrote: It happened to me so many times, I am giving up using the Startup Manager and the OS Selector. Both can hang up your computer disallowing you from loading Windows. This is a very ridiculous and inexcusable situation. The Startup Manager does...

I bought a Beyond Micro 250GB USB Mobile Drive from TigerDirect.com (refurb) and installed it to my HP Media center PC and it all worked fine. I have had it now for about a week and turned the PC on today and it was gone! I tried switching the USB cables, switching USB ports on computer, etc but...

January 25th, 2005 Burning Questions: Storing Your CDs and DVDs Assoc. Ed. Melissa J. Perenson Look around your office. That's right, look over there, at that leaning pile of jewel cases filled with discs. You know the one--the pile that you don't have a clue what to do with, so it continues...

July 19th, 2005 Guide to DVD Recorders by PC World contributor Jon L. Jacobi You've heard about this DVD burning thing, but when you walk into the store and the salesperson asks whether you want a PC DVD burner or a set-top DVD recorder, you're stumped. Relax: We're here to clarify...

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*********** Big ATA/IDE HD for old PC? Hi all, My old PC is a late 1997 200Mhz Pentium 1 that originally had an 8 Gb IDE HD.

I just upgrade my 40gig Western Digital drive to a 180gig Western Digital drive, and I am quite sure that it runs, physically speaking, at least twice as "hot" as the 40gig drive. It's *not* so hot that I could fry an egg on it, and in fact, I can touch it and leave my finger on it for 5 seconds,...

The big disk drive in the sky: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/01/the-big-disk-drive-in-the-sky-how-the-giants-of-the-web-store-big-data.ars GFS (Google File System) processes 20 Petabytes a day. Thats not a fire hose. That is the Mississippi river. Lynn

I need a really big hard drive. The Maxtor Maxline II 5A300J0 300GB seems like top of the heap right now. I have a Maxtor 80 but am really a WD man. Should I trust 300 gig to Maxtor? Is something better coming.......a Terra Bite would be nice.......actually a pair of terrabytes would be

My computer was working all good. later i did shut down. on next day my hard drive was'nt being detected on bios. the hard disk is a seagate 40 gb barracuda ata. i tried to go to a friends house with my hardisk but,it does'nt detects there too. what should i do? what type of problem is this? i have...

Company is making preparations and research to set hudge repository (hundreds of terabytes). Outsourcing is taken under consideration. Any information of firms offering such services will be apprecjated. Regards Darek pardar (at) wp.pl

Helloo Guyz.. I got a problem with my 500GB transcend USB drive with 178 GB free only when i put this on a system with windows XP. Now i am unable to see my complete folders??? space remains same. Where the h3ll all my folders go?? I tried err checking with windows but all in vain.

I have a 120Gb Maxtor external USB2 drive (model number USB2120NEP001 on the case) that I use for backing up the four PCs in the house. The HDD inside is just a standard 120Gg ATA/133 drive. I would like to stick a larger drive inside it but don't know if the USB-ATA chipset in the case supports...

Hello i try to install a linux OS on a Xseries 205 , it works fine when i do my installation is done. But when i reboot my system, the server can't boot because he could not find boot sector : "1962 Driver does not contains valid boot sector" It was strange cause, it works with another systems a...

Hello Group, I have an old clone with a Celeron 300, and AMI BIOS. When I enter BIOS Setup, it tells me: AMIBIOS HIFLEX SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 1.20 I have an 8GB HDD as primary master, a 2.1 GB HDD as secondary master, and a CDROM as secondary slave. During post, there is about a 30 second delay...

Hello, I'm just new to the hard disk technology and just wondering what is the default access mode INT 13 extensions run. By mode, I mean PIO, MWDMA, DMA 0, ..., etc. We have a diagnostic program that access hard disk through Task File Register (bypassing the BIOS) and changes mode. Now I'm...