I've got a hard drive that's about 2 years old and it's a little
sluggish, not as fast like when I just got it. I've done everything to
get it back to the way it was, I've tried defragmenting, registry
cleaning, spyware cleaning, you name it. I think it's either Windows

does anyone of you ever used a HP EVA (4000 series) or EMC² Clariion
(CX300) storage?
Accordingly to our requirements a partner recommended us this two
systems (both with FC-disks/FC-Switches).

A little off topic, but basically file transfers
Posted before about transferring lots of big files (gigs) between a
P3 workhorse & a P4 (with main storage). Both machines are 100Mbps
networked and on the same desk, using a kvm switch to manage.

Does anyone know of a program like DiskEdit that will modify the mbr
or disk sectors for an external USB hard drive?
Every one I've seen only works on locally attached drives except the
Acronis one:

How can I find out the drive type number for my
cheers
Jood

I've seen a lot of switching over from IDE disks to serial ATA disks.  In
fact, an Intel blade server we want to purchase does not have any choice.
The question I have not been able to answer is, "Do they provide the special
services that high reliability systems need?"

I've setup a brand new Maxtor 300 Gb drive, and smartd keeps telling me
this :
Device: /dev/hdd, 100 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors
Device: /dev/hdd, 104 Offline uncorrectable sectors

If I get a 200 gig hard drive, is the 137 gig limit an issue?
And if I create two 100 gig partitions, is the 137 gig limit still an
issure?
And when does the 137 gig limit ever become and issue?

I have a couple of old 68pin scsi cables used now with UltraSCSI wide
card and old scsi 7.5K RPM
drives.
Does anybody know is it possible to use these cables with new U320

I installed XP home (SP1) on my new 200GB SATA drive.  After install it
claims 60 GIG is used.  Is there a way to get back the amount above 130GIG
that is falsley being read as used with loosing data on the drive?  I have
upgraded XP Home to SP2.

I'm getting a AMS VENUS DS-2316CBK External USB Drive enclosure and
wanted to find out if anyone knew what the maximum usb 2 cable length
could be used for this device (that works reliably) ?  I'd like to get
a 15' usb 2 cord but wasn't sure if this might be exceeding its limits.

My external Lacie Hard drive does not turn on on its own. I'm afraid
something is wrong with it.
I want to get a new external hard drive and transfer all my gigs to
that one, while getting the other fixed.

MTBF of 1.5 million hours is a bit unrealistic isn't it?
Are there any surveys of data cabinets that gives realistic failure rates?
For example, I can say that three drives of four hundred in our data racks
failed in the past five years.  Five power supplies failed.

HI I want to use my Sony Vaio hard drive in a different laptop but I
keep getting a blue screen with a white text message and the laptops
shuts down.I think it can be programmed to work but I don't know how to
do it,can anyone please help ?

Running a Compaq 35/70 tape drive on a Win 2000 domain using hardware
compression.  We have close to 2 million small files we're backing
up...small as in ranging from 1k - 12k as well as an Exchange store
(9GB).  We're seeing our tapes running out at around 40GB which is