My laptop has a 4200 RPM HD.  I was thinking about getting a USB
5400RPM HD:
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=261.  I
could move applications to the USB drive and leave the primary for the

I have an Atlas II 15K 147 gig SCSI drive on an Adaptec controller.
I keep getting corrupt mft's and volumes when I add more than 50 or so files
to the drive. Under 50 files it seems to run OK.
This drive is on a server 2003 box.

I have an external USB WD 250 GB hdd, but it fell of the floor last
week and cannot see drive letters on windows.
I've already changed the enlcosure to make sure it is not the problem,
but still can't see drives and reach data inside of hdd.

I have put together an AMD X2 4200 CPU machine that currently has a
320gig Sata2 drive and 1gig of memory. If I had add a smaller (say
80gig) sata2 drive and just put OS (WinXP) and programs on it and put
all data files on the 320gig, will that give me a performance boost?

Do ide hard disk prices fall dramatically after Christmas the way
some computer parts do?   Thank you in advance for all replies.

I got myself a new 80 pin cable.  I went to remove the old cable and I
seen that the pin on the motherboard IDE slot had bent.  I tried to bend
it back but in the process I broke the pin so now that IDE slot is dead.
I took my [working] Promise PCI IDE Ultra UDMA 100 controller ...

I'm trying to control a Cypress USB-IDE bridge chip to turn on and off
a 2.5" HDD by controlling the chip's power on reset signal. Once the
chip's reset signal(RESET) is pulled low, it will pull the ide reset
signal(ARESET) low also, and release it about 35ms after RESET is

I have an ASUS motherboard with Athlon 1.4 processor. This had a 40Gig WD
drive which I removed. I installed XP on a new 60Gig drive (as a test) and
it seems to work fine. I then cloned the drives of an older Win 98 machine
to the 40Gig drive using the older machine - no problem ...

I have a 2.5GB 640x480 30fps mov file that I created with QT Pro v6.x
that plays very choppy video at 2fps (average) when accessed from my
externally attached WD Netcenter NAS network drive. The sound however
is fine. When I play this .mov in QT when it resides locally on my Dell

A vendor has proposed the Netapp 270 4TB Raw capacity for our Exchange +
File Server data.  Can someone comment on the suitability for our
environment based on my info below?
Our fileserver has about 200 GB of documents, mostly files < 100KB on it.  I

I dropped my external hard drive and now it just beeps and will not
work.  Any ideas on how I can recover the data?

Anyone help with this.....
...just got nice new additional hard drive..can't get it to go....what
happens when I attach it..Windows XP won't load....takes me to Set-up.
The new hard drive is a Western Digital SATA drive...exactly the same size

A friend gave me a Western Digital WD800 drive.
It has a strange connector on the end. In place of the normal 40 pin
connector, or 80 wire 40-pin connector, that other drives have, and
that the WD website indicates that it uses.

I'm currently in the decision-phase for my home-NAS. My requirements are:
500GB Raid1 (2*500)
CIFS
TwonkyServer (or equivalent)

I pulled a IBM Travelstar disk from a T21 (I know it works fine, the
problem on the laptop was with the motherboard). I connected it to a
Argosy HD260 external hard disk case (USB connection). On connecting to
an XP box, the system recognizes an IBM-DJSA-220 USB Device, but no