Does anyone have an opinion on the Maxtor F01H500 OneTouch III 500 GB
USB external drive.
It will be used with 4 WD 400 GB external drives that I already have.
Thanks for any help you may be able to offer.

"Flash" just received from Maxtor / Seagate:
"This is an update to the recent communication we sent about the close
of the Seagate acquisition of Maxtor:
Dual Brand, Warranty, and Support

Anyone have any experiences of the Storewiz STN-5000? It's supposed to
be some sort of on the fly compressor that sits in front of a NAS filer.
http://www.storewiz.com/
I've looked in the archives but couldn't find much!

I've been looking for a while on the net for some numbers on NetBench
for a NetApp filer... my question is basically, for a NetApp filer like
the FAS960, how many client CIFS connections/sessions can it handle,
what is the maximum throughput and average latency?

 As I understand,SAN most popular protocol today is Fibre Channel.
 Less popular are iSCSI Infiniband.
 Are there any other protocols apart from these for SAN ?
 Is this the situation currently?

I recently bought a Maxtor external hard drive for use to transfer
files from an older, space-challenged computer.  I had no need for the
backup software, so I just plugged it in (USB 2.0) and Windows XP
recognized it as an empty NTFS drive.  So I did a drag and drop of

I have always been confused about the use of the term "back up."  Boot
disks provided with new computers seemed to make system back-ups
redundant, even though nearly everyone I know has at least two copies
of boot disks in addition to the factory manufacturer's.  I could never

I wonder if you can help me.
I have a Desktop PC that has broken so I have ordered a new one and am
awaiting its delivery.
I do not know if the HD's in my broken PC are damaged or whether they are

I want to know whether it is difficult for you to visit
http://www.download.com these days. Recently I always can't visit this
site. Do you have the same problem?

Question for the experts,
I have an E-sata external exclosure connected to the external sata connector
on the back of my pc
y question is this,

I want to Convert my PATA optical drives to SATA.  I know that this
will not make them any faster but I want to do it because of the
longer, thinner cables.
Is this likely to work well?  Are there any brands/chipsets of

hi to everyone and sorry for the engrish , but i really need help wit
my hd so here is the proble
i buy a new hd 200gb maxtor , and i use partition magic to create tw
partitions and of 10 gb for the o

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We have some servers like DNS that are very important, and have very
low disk usage and access. We currently use 2 17Gb SCSI 1 for them, but
it is hard to find replacement disks and every new disk our people find
is at least 36Gb.

in which order should the windows services stoped? First MediaStor than
DiskXtender?