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- Recommend a new hard drive?
- Looking for easy to use external hard drive
- Best setup between 2x640GB and 1x500GB drive
- 10k rpm vs 7.2k rpm
- Problem while installing XP 64bit on my Raptor
- LSI SAS and sata port multipliers
- 1TB VS 500GB VS 250 ETC
- use CF to run your system
- Advice on disk backup system/NAS devices!
- Any Adaptec 3405 or 3805 SAS Raid controller users? Need your help
- Possible to add a Velociraptor to an Ipod?
- 150GB Raptor problems
- PERC 2DC Problems?
- Floppy disk drive cable
- Lag when viewing network files?
- Upgrading hard drive, need to copy data from old to new (kinda complicated though)
- need help on Western Digital raptor 150
- S.M.A.R.T. Status
- HDD detection issues
- do HDD manufacturers guarantee performance?
- cloning a damaged hard drive
- esata to sata
- Hard drive compatibility question
- Samsung F1 750 Reliability?
- big trouble with external HD
- random led flashing
- acronis disk director cant resize my C drive
- Best method, IDE or SATA for boot drive?
- RAID0 Alienware Help
- WD diagnostics error code 223
- recovering drive after raid
- HD keeps disappearing after sleeping
- HDD Problems on Vista
- Partitioning hard disks and selection for new system
- WD320GB single platter revision - Where to buy?
- Does it matter how I short-stroke a RAID set?
- Drive shuts off and restarts
- 1tb Hard Drive Reports 32mb raw
- Restoring Corrupted Partiontion on Samsuing F1 1TB
- HDD/Vista problem.
- HDD Running at 100%
- Normal eSATA read speeds?
- Got a Gigabyte GCRAMDISK iRAM (pics)
- RAID Card in 2nd SLI slot?
- Several ST Lab controllercards?
- Hard drive choice help...
- Looking for home NAS solution
- External HD Solution
- Need some advice on Raid 1 NAS solutions..
- Software Raid 5 Issues -- Dead drive?
- *Click*...*Click*...*Click* sound coming from hard drive
- Basic vs Dynamic
- Identical HDs but different size after formatted?
- How to install Raid 0?
- Long time to format
- NEW st3500320AS ! problems ! :(
- eSATA Controller... PCI, PCI-E, IDE?
- Exchange 2007 Hard Drive/Raid configuration
- Samsung F1 1TB high access time
- trying for a raid setup..will this work?
- RAID 6 performance
- HD vs SSD
- S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD
- Anyone at the Lustre user group conference in Sonoma?
- IDE RAID suggestions
- Brand New 750G SATA drive, only showing 127G????
- Finally went to a Hardware Raid5 controller...
- hdd temperature program for vista?
- Did I just destroy my hard drive? Tried to reformat, cancelled, won't boot now
- Is the Seagate ES a good choice?
- IDE Ethernet-ready Enclosure Suggestions
- New Samsung 750GB/F1 -- Troubling initial SMART results?
- External Raid Solution
- Does Raid 1 require a format?
- What software will test hard drive speed?
- 6TB RAID 5 w/ nVidia mobo - possible?
- Is it ok to mix 10K and 15K RPM Drives in Raid?
- Make USB drive appear as actual hard drive
- Power down Hard drives - On a schedule
- SAS versus eSata raid
- RAID 5 Question
- Unmark partition as active
- RMA or keep? WD SE16 WD6400AAKS - Normal noise, or POS?
- external NAS raid?
- problem with e machines hard drive
- Quick RAID & IDE question.
- Does anything like this exist?
- anyone seen more than 48TB in 4U?
- RAID1 Problem
- would I need to config to use IDE with SATA
- Hot swap for 3.5" in a 5.25" bay
- sil 3114 question
- Looking to setup a media server
- How do you set up your partitions
- SATA drives
- Problem Installing OS! on raid 0
- Hard drive questions. Storing and raids.
- want to change raid driver without new install and F6
- External STA disk dock won't detect under Vista, but works in XP?
- HDD activity light constantly blinks
- Raid 0 unstable, individual drives fine
- ARECA broken Raid 5 how to save it
- Photoshop Scratch Disk Raid setup?
- deleted partition, help recovering
- Matching Hard Drives...Does it Matter?
- RAID 0 vs 1 vs 0+1 vs 5 HD Tach data (up to 4 drives)
- Recent Bad Luck with Western Digital
- 4 SAS drives.... or one Solid State
- Drive acting up?
- HD Firmware Upgradeable?
- OS raid?
- SCSI Install
- Raptor sudden drop in transfer rate, help
- Looking for Partitioning software
- HDD making very weird noise...
- Using multiple hard drives.....??
- How is ClubIT's OEM HD packaging?
- Can't access hard drive, need advice!
- i bet you've answered this question before
- New Build
- Anyone know of a good Chkdsk replacement?
- Incompatible PCI HD controllers?
- Case for SATA array
- Clone an OS parition without erasing new drive?
- Not impressed by WD 74gb raptor
- Anyone own a WD6400AAKS 640GB drive?
- Raid config with 2x 160gb and 500gb drive on M2A-VM?
- do i lose data if my RAID controller dies
- Good read on the upcoming Intel SSDs
- Secondary HD for gaming?
- Staggered spinup on WD GP drives
- RAID 0 with different sized drives?
- raid5 with 3 15k hp scsi drives...
- hp scsi 15k... want to buy write cache upgrade bbwc.. format?
- Western Digital WD6400AAKS 640GB (and other drives-which should I buy)
- Need a fast 8-port SATA II card
- Matrix Raid 1 and 0 question
- Warranty on OEM HDD's
- 7200.11: should I RMA it? Details inside.
- Can Dell desktops take a standard hard drive or are they different?
- Linux md raid - mix & match drives
- D-LINK Dns-323
- Newbie looking to build a 10 TB server
- port multipliers in the uk
- BSOD during vista install on a new HDD
- Running External Drive 24/7
- Hard drive repair in Malaysia
- Adaptec 39160 SCSI controller – Seeprom error
- USB HD reconnects every 30 seconds...
- Speed wise, SCSI or Velociraptor for single user?
- Small or Large?
- question about external enclosure max capacity
- Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200AAKS 320GB
- Best External Hard Drive?
- Multipul operations issue
- Using SATA drive externally and sitting on PC case
- updating Sata Controller Bios
- RAID messed up on upgrade
- ATA drive won't show up in my computer
- SATA disk shows up in BIOS but not in Windows
- Newb needs help with a Raid 5
- Watercooler RAID
- New Raptors Starting to Show Up $296.62
- deleted files wont delete on portable drive?
- ICH9R and Raid 0
- Need thoughts on this
- Help! Raids with onboard controllers, "Write Caching" its corruptions
- Could really use advice on drive configuration
- SATA swappable rack: pls recommend
- RAID5 Virtual Disk Not Showing
- Hard drive problems: says I am low on space...
- Help: a new drive and an old drive
- Windows Home Server: Suitable for HTPC?
- How do I make sure to get a WD3200AAKS-00B3A0?
- backup imaging software
- Is this drive good for the price and quality? Need your help please
- Need storage for 3 comp network
- Best card/hdd combo for 5x750gb raid5?
- 137gb not 750gb
- Fastest High Capacity Drive: Damn you VRaptor!
- Retail warranty on oem drives?
- HDD Utilization
- frustrated with WD Raptor 150
- Backup to External
- 7200.10 biting the dust.
- DVD boot and IDE Hard drive probs
- 1Tb Drives - Samsung HD103UJ or Seagate 7200.11?
- Stupid Question
- Getting into something new...
- Confused: HDD shows up in BIOS/POST but not in Windows
- Partition advice for new drive that will be for OS
- looking for good external hd, any suggestions?
- Intel SSD release?
- How much performance degredation going from SATA to IDE HDD?
- Supertalent PICO-C benchmarks and review
- Supertalent SSD masterdrive MX/DX
- Temp Issue with 1 of 2 HDD.
- Mtron Rocks Again, the Fastest 130MB/s SATA II SSD
- Any good and large external sata enclosures?
- enable NCQ in Vista64?
- Transfering OS to new HDD?
- Home Server lga775 motherboard 1333fsb needed
- Seagate Barracuda ES.2 7200rpm 1tb SAS drive
- Steam transfer to second HD??
- ATI AHCI driver vs Vista's generic driver?
- Bootable Universal RAID Utility?
- hot external drive 51c
- Help me with new hard drives please
- Shadow backup
- Bad folders and files
- WD Velociraptors
- Raid Question
- At what point do you have to install OS again?
- Extremely Loud WD120 - How to shush?
- 500G Limit on USB Enclosures
- Looking to add another 16Tb, thoughts?
- PCI Sata Controller
- I broke a pin on my PATA / IDE HDD.
- raid 1 P5E, drivers
- my god i went through the most frustrating windows installation in my life these last
- full hard disk recover
- 10K RPM SCSI Drive
- Is it possible that this drive just sucks that bad? Samsung SV8004H
- Raid 1 with different drives
- Good idea for an XP/Vista dual boot?
- Raid 5? other disc configurations?
- Raid Migration (between controllers)
- how do your flash drives do in hdtune?
- Heat Issue with my Raptor?
- Hard Drive and CD Drive only one IDE
- ICH9R raid control
- Does RAID 1 use any special formatting on X SATA/RAID controller?
- No SMART readings in SpeedFan!!
- Data not showing on Lacie Big Disk?? Help!
- Drivers needed for Supermicro AOC-SAT2-MV8
- HD Enclosure opinions.
- windows options for a large disk effect?
- Vista will not assign a drive letter.
- Help- Electronix Indy 2600
- How do I get back safe remove for SATA?
- Using a thumb drive for a hd
- Using Windows Home Server for data redundancy
- Energy Efficient NAS - home use
- Back up
- HD about to fail? How to back up OS to another HD?
- Weird issue with new thermaltake enclosure and WD drive....
- Raptor 74GB, should I bother with it?
- Here's a toughie
- Pare Down My Build
- Home fileserver
- I've got a conundrum...
- Is my HDD Dead?
- cheap 5 bay to 3.5 bay adaptor?
- Weird error, emergency help needed!!!
- Best way to set up a RAID 5 file server
- linux read/write average speed
- Internal desktop SATA HDD as external for laptop?
- Need some Ideas for Setup
- NForce4 RAID / Vista 64 Ultimate install problem
- SES-2/SGPIO sideband
- 150GB Velociraptors Confirmed
- Large DB server build
- HDD question
- What's the biggest benefit of SATA over PATA besides future compatability?
- Vista slave ide drive problems after hibernation
- Best HD for back up/speed/reliability?
- WD 500AAKS Whacking out... Is there a way to fix it?
- Barracuda .9 120GB Sata Spin Retry Count
- Should I partition my RAID5 array?
- Simple question on SATA HD's
- 500GB 32MB cache or 640GB 16MB cache?
- Quick Seagate 7200.11 question
- New to RAID
- SSD
- Trouble with New SATA Install
- Best backup solution?
- 2 x RAID 0 vs 6 x RAID 5
- Why are SSD so expensive?
- Best Laptop Hard Drive 5400 RPM?
- Fireproof NAS Units
- hdd speed drops to 0.2MB/s after a few minutes??? what the?
- Suggestions for external enclosure for Raid?
- Drive not showing up, fresh from RMA
- Does having a system drive connected to a HW RAID controller w/cache increase perf.?
- bad experiences with seagate?
- Toshiba portable harddrives
- Are my Raptor X drives working correctly?
- e-ide wd scorpio
- Raid 5 the best solution?
- Seeking Opinions On File Server Rebuild
- raid5-3disk to raid5-5disk... boost?
- Card for RAID5 array?
- Dell MD3000
- Issue with new HD
- Need 2 new big harddrives which ones ... and questions
- VelociRaptor 300GB available at Newegg!
- 2.5" ide hdd enclosure 64-bit compatibility
- Raid0 on WD740's--small hitch
- Emergency Linux raid (mdadm) question
- How do i clone a hard drive
- Software RAID5... is it good enough for my needs?
- back up options
- Laptop harddrive question?
- 150GB Velociraptor?
- Will PS3 HDD work in a laptop?
- Computer Wont Boot BSODS after GUI Boot,
- What about RAID 1.5?
- Intel Matrix RAID5 frequent Verify/Repair Cycles
- Computer won't detect External
- New mobo, 3x HD's, and no experience with raid
- New Drive Format Loses 14GB
- Large Array Help
- Need help setting up my configuration
- SCSI Drive Replacement
- Raptor 10K RPM or Samsung F1 for games
- Considering vista 64 and a new hard drive, please help?
- Need NAS / Choices?
- Best drives for 2x RAID-0 ?
- [HELP] Efficient / Proper Harddrive testing?
- Raid 5 Here I Come
- Choosing Hard Drives
- Best raid card?
- Choosing a new HD: 10000k RPM or 7200RPM
- Raid 0 & some who knows something about it...
- non-raid SATA controllers?
- Building first file server...
- Disk Drives Won't Read
- iStarUSA HDD Enclosure
- My 1st HD benchmark w/ dual Velociraptors Raid 0
- SATA question
- Difference between these 2 WD drives?
- Pinging WYM...
- Need help with drive swap
- WYM, you've blocked incoming private messages so.......
- RAID 5 Two Drives in RAID 0?
- Need some Raid0 Help with my board and such!
- Spinpoint F1 750 + Nforce 680 ncq issues
- Needing new harddrive, two choices
- Hotswap bay/case recommendation
- Scratch disk?
- increase in hard drive chatter
- Best OS for 2TB+ Server.
- Vista SP1 killed my nForce4 RAID
- Ext HD help
- Data recovery?
- cloning dual boot drive
- is eSATA supposed to be plug n' play?
- Dell Perc 5/E help
- Internal HDD Enclosures (Noise Reduction and Cooling)
- RAID 1 to RAID 5?
- USB Drive not recognized
- Rackmountable Home Media NAS
- USB Mass Sorage Capacity Limit Question
- Advice on 8GB USB flash drive needed
- ANY way to turn Dynamic HDD to basic...
- Setting up a file server
- Missing SATA SMART values?
- Should a RAID0 array look like this?
- Samsung F1 Reliabiliy Survey
- Will the following work with this motherboard?
- Quick/Noob RAID0 question
- These WD drives
- need some help, speed fan reports 2 newer 400 and new 500gb drive failing
- Hard Drive for Laptop *Urgent*
- Do I need Intel Matrix Storage Manager drivers for NCQ to work?
- RAID For Storage?
- Clarification on HighPoint RocketRAID 2310
- SAS Expander
- Should I partition my WD 640gb?
- Just got a 7200.11.. maximizing speed
- Fastest slim (laptop) DVD burner?
- OS Recommendation for NAS
- Perc 5/i w/vista doesn't work well with onboard HD
- Samsung F1 1000GB HD103UJ Write Performance?
- How do you back up Terabytes of data?
- Combine two partitions that are on different drives?
- Enterprise/Server Class SATA Drives for RAID 5?
- Recommendations for HDD setup for HiDef Video Editing in Adobe Premiere? Raptor?
- RAID question
- 20k RPM Raptors?
- IDE - SATA adapters
- Tiny IDE-SATA converter
- SAS to Sata cables
- Best price/performance PCI RAID for linux?
- Upgrade of BIOS loses RAID information?! O.o
- Ext HD temps?
- Velociraptor vs. Raptor - RAID Benches
- 1 VRaptor - Best Solution For Gamers?
- managing Mac Partition in Windows
- RAID5 NAS setup for video editing or not?
- Samsung F1 1TB unreliable?
- Switching HDD in External Drive?
- HDD problems... I can only use half of it
- Back up options for vista
- LOL! My new WD RE2 1TB drive shows only as 33MB
- Backup solution - ~500GB data across 4 servers
- Partitioning Question
- Any (Windows) tool to read temperatures via SMART through USB (SAT)?
- HDD Needs to be formated all of a sudden.
- New 4tb (3 really) raid 5 controller advice
- Fastest Gigabit NAS which is more or less portable?
- Help Buying RAID Equipment For A Media Server
- Small (ITX) File Server Advice
- Need a solution to get data from old PATA drives to new SATA
- 2GB DIMM for Areca Card?
- HD corrupted?
- AHCI mode on IP35 Pro
- Raid-0 on SB600
- Next version of OS X Server to support ZFS
- Mixing drives on a RAID controller?
- Seagate Momentous, partitioning, interface manipulation
- Seagate 7200.11 750GB or WD 640GB
- What is the differance between SATA and e-SATA?
- Put in a new harddrive and...
- WD Caviar Black
- Open Source Backup Solutions
- Perfect Hard Drive Setup?
- Enable eSATA hotswap on P5E-WS-PRO (Marvell SATA?)
- Weird results from new OCZ SSD
- What is fastest... of these choices:
- Need recovery help with a WD USB Drive
- Hard Drive not running at full speed, help.
- IDE to SATA adapter
- WD6400AAKS, best bang for buck performance?
- 150gb Raptor as OS drive
- a good deal
- Failed RAID Card = losing all data?
- Protective Hard Drive Storage
- SATA Hard Drive Problem...
- Partitioning Hard Drive in Vista 64??
- Easiest (and cost effective) way of duplicating 50+ hard drives
- I need a RAID Controller
- GB/in^3
- External harddrive help
- Typical Performance Results?
- My 40GB hdsk show 0.0kB
- Dell SAS6/iR
- Disk showing half size.
- Expensive RAID controller for 2 disk RAID0?
- Adding HDD's to Raid 5
- Looking for a good ESATA Controller card.
- Write back cache with no battery for replaceable data?
- RAID5 card recommendations?
- Fast and simple way to check an old hard drive?
- My Drive is Fine, But About to Fail?
- WD6400AAKS Partitioning Question
- RAID 0 questions for old Raptors
- Slightly different RAID card swap.
- AHCI in a dual boot
- Strange problem,hard drive not reading free space properly
- FRAID on Nvidia boards
- Advice on file server
- Anyone used this Sata Multiplexor?
- Overclocking your harddrive (just kidding - actually AAM tip)
- Dell Perc5i
- Velociraptor temps are great!
- VelociRaptor vs multiple SATA
- please help me find a nas
- Western Digital 640gb Drive
- External HDD not recognized in XP if turned on before boot
- Quick RAID1 question
- Is data recovery possible?
- 3 x WD7500AACS in Raid 5 ?
- 1TB Format
- Raid 0 - 2 drives vs 4 drives
- moving stuff to new HD?
- External HDD?
- Marvel vs Intel raid on bad axe 2 board
- Need a Raid 5 Controller
- Help me decide please: WD3200AAKS x4 vs Velociraptors Raid 0
- Data Recovery Service
- How much?
- Quiet drive
- Intel ICH9R -Temperature
- External HDD
- 74 GB / 150 GB VelociRaptor?
- Creating a partition?
- Which hard drive do you guys recommend that's quiet and fast
- automated backup device? mediavault? for clinic?
- Dual arrays on Perc 5/i (LSI)
- Best way to make a Raid 5 array
- What's the difference?
- Seagate 7200.11 in RAID 0/5 - SLOW performance!!
- PUIS
- Thermaltake BlackX Problem
- Strange Issue
- Intel Atom as Server
- Help me build NAS
- Recommend me an 4 sata drive external enclosure
- M2N-E NV RAID5 degraded
- WD RE3 RAID Drives
- Bad Velociraptor or configuration issues?
- RAID SMART status
- Question About MY DOCUMENTS
- linux: centos w/ LVM 160 to 80 GB drive swap
- My strange problem
- Major HD Problem
- Help with I2C cable Areca to Intel Enclosure
- Going back to no RAID from RAID 1
- External 500gb problems
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