What is happening (to me)? WESTERN DIGITAL PATA 160G 25 weeks old, sic,
2 weeks shy of end of warranty and it up and quits - all gone bye, bye.
Predominately on MSI/ASUS AMD mbs w/ SYBA 2ch PCI controller.  Yea, so
what - I raid(0)ed it "some of the time" along with a MAXTOR

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This is something I've often wondered about but never tried to find out
- why is it that when you buy a 400GB drive, hook it up to your
motherboard, you only get say 370GB? This is before it's been formatted
or anything.

I took a look at the first 63 sectors using dskprobe.
Except for sector 0, which contains the partition info,
the rest of the sectors contain zeroes apart from
sector 10, which contains 4 bytes (x'2896c417")

I'm seeking advice about the pros and cons of using hot-swappable hard
drives for large capacity data backups vs. using tapes.
The scenario is a small business with a snowballing amount of digital
assets. They need to store and backup about 1TB of data. Nightly backups

Is there anything to say about the maximum number of drives you should
connect to a Ultra320 channel on a RAID controller (for a single RAID5 set)?
Modern Ultra320 10.000RPM drives have a throughput between 59 and
118MB/s (according to Seagate datasheets). Does this mean you can ...

Is the current version of Acronis (version 8 build something) able to
create real sector-by-sector images of HD partitions? In my case, this
would be important for creating images of encrypted partitions where
the HD imaging program cannot recognize the file system.

Where on the HD is the best place to measure the temperature. I have
two raid0 setup in my pc, and so far I haven?t been able to find any
programs who can detect the temp. on a raid disk. Any body out there
who know of any?

I'm running WinXP Pro with NTFS partitions.  I used PartitionMagic v8
to move and resize a partition.  The process got hosed in the middle,
and left everything in a weird state.  I can't access the partition via
Windows Explorer or a DOS command window.  But I *can* see stuff there

Hello All.  I just purchased an EMC Clariion FC5300 (also known as
Dell 650F).  I've got an 005-044993 RAID storage processor--w/ lots of
cache.  I've got Cable/HyperTerm plugged into RJ12.. 9600/8/1/even,
hardware flow control----but nothing comes up.  I can see a cursor

i have a mesh pc and will be adding the above drive to my system i
already have a 160 gb sata on a raid 1+0 setup however i,ve been told
that raid will only work with hdd of the same capacity is this true
and if so , can i disable the raid controller?...thanks in advance

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Recently I've been attempting to setup a backup system using Retrospect
and Firewire hard drives.  The initial (and recycle) backups take many
hours.  I've been experiencing frequent OS hangs where nothing
responds, not even alt-ctl-DELETE.

I am seeking advice. I currently have an Intel D845GEBV2 mb with a 40
gig hd. I am planing on converting some home videos to dvd so I bought
a Hitachi Deskstar 250 GB SATA hd. to give me some space for the
conversions. I am no hardware wiz and I did not realize that my

I am looking for a reliable and affordable backup/imaging software that
will allow me to backup a partition from an internal harddrive (with
optional compression) to an external USB harddisk and restore the image
later with minimum fuss. The machines in question have no floppy