I have two daughters in college and I know that they will not remember
often to back up their computers.
I am wondering if it is a consideration to purchase a router with a VPN
or to purchase a program that will set up a VPN to allow them to back up

I need to implement a RAID 1 solution for a high end desktop machine,
and I'm considering 2 options:
1) Use the onboard(cheap) SATA RAID controller on my motherboard with 2
Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10K SATA drives.

When booting the Drive Image 7 or Ghost 10 CD, is USB 2.0 supported?
I just tried DI7 and it looks like a drive restore is only going at
USB 1.x speed.  Yes I realize I could get USB 2.0 speed if I do a
drive to drive copy when booted into XP, but I don't have the 2.5" IDE

The declared transfer rate of a Fujitsu DynaMO 2300 magneto-optical
drive is approximately 8.5 Mb/s. However, I am not able not obtain
more than some 600 to 800 kb/s (by using 2.3GB disks on Win2000 and
WinXP). Is the 800 kb/s transfer rate a real maximum of that device or

The product is a disk-to-disk backup/CDP solution for small and medium
size businesses, especially those with remote users and infrequently
connected clients like laptops.  Recovery of data is web-based.  If
interested, please email "info at webanomics.com".

Very disappointed by IBM.
Purchased an xSeries 225 server over a yesr ago. One drive failed, and now I
CANNOT replace the drive. It is manufactired by Seagate, and the part itself
has 5 years warranty. However IBM gives me only 1 year. GO FIGURE. NICE JOB

I've been told, but find it hard to believe,
that fibre channel disks are quite a bit more
reliable than SCSI disks.
My own limited experience with fibre channel disks

I just purchased a new computer system and am ready to install my
programs and transfer my data over from my old 'puter.
Configuration:
ASUS P5WD-2 Premium

My HD0 has 2 partitions:
C: WinXP Home OS and about half my program files
D: Most data and rest of programs
Because it seems to be failing (separate thread 'Bad Blocks'), I've

i don't know how it happened but i did not record the unlock key
for my legitimate copy of norton partition magic and now need to
reinstall it. does anyone know of a way to get the key off the cd
without having to grovel and plead with the symantec people?

I've got an hp8580c, it has 3 optical bays.
In the top bay i've got a dvd burner, in the 2nd and 3rd bays I've got
removable IDE trays. the internal hard disk resides in the internal 4th
bay.

We're looking at investing in a SAN and have been comparing these two
solutions but can't decide which way to go.
does anyone have experience of either?
any comments about comparing the two?

Just installed the Maxtor 200GB Shared Storage
and am testing and reviewing for our usage...
Running firmware 1.2.2
Message also submitted to Maxtor FAQ.

Hello  :)
will somebody please explain to me in plain words what is MBR, partition
table, NTDLR and boot sector?
Yes, I have googled this but some plain words will do just nicely... :)

The Hard Drive in question was taken out of a HP Computer as the Owner
couldnt format it to install XP, I have tried and its takeing ages, after 7
hours I have given up. The Drive is a 40 gig Samsung its not that old, Maybe
its stuffed.