A friend of mine brought his Compaq 6820s laptop for some maintenance
and configuration work.  More specifically, he wants to split the 250Gb
C: drive in smaller partitions.
The drive is an Hitachi Travelstat 5K250 - HTS542525K9SA00 S-ATA disk.

IE:  this unit in particular:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816855007&ATT=16-855-007&C
MP=OTC-Froogle&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Server+-+RAID+Sub-Systems-
_-CFI-_-16855007
Apparently you just connect it to a single Esata port on the back of
the PC ...

What is the performance increase using a METALUN vs. LUN? What is the
sweet spot? Configuration? Thanks in advance. This is for a SQL server.

Previously my Western Digital SATA HDD had problem. I replaced a new
WD3200AAJS one from dealer. I connected that HDD to one SATA port in
my Gigabyte GA-8S655FX motherboard. The BIOS settings for SATA were
set as below:

I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a
USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the
external from the slaved internal. It has literally been running 10
hours and has copied less than quarter of it based on the progress

I have an internal hard drive hooked up as a slave to a computer and a
USB external connected. I am trying to copy about 80 gigs to the
external from the slaved internal. It has literally been running 10
hours and has copied less than quarter of it based on the progress

I would like to image my C: drive to my external drive, which has 3
times the
capacity.
Will the typical software allow me to image to a special directory on

Could someone here tell me if partition numbers are
ordered from the outer tracks to the inner tracks of
a hard disk, or from inner to outer?  IOW, is partition
#1 on the outer or inner tracks?

Using the Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostics (most recent
download from their website).
Running the QUICK TEST on my new 150 GB Raptor produces zero errors,
but it also produces noise like a manual transmission car getting up

I've been looking at a number of UK online retailers, and their prices
for Western Digital WD5000AAKB (500GB, 16MB cache, PATA) hard disks
all seem to be about 10% less than those for other 500GB disks,
including the WD5000AAJB (8MB cache). Have any reliability issues been

All of a suddent, the PC can't mount some USB devices I connect to it.
One 2GB pen drive that mounted OK before stopped mounting. But
strangely another 1GB one still works.
A replaced 500GB Seagate SATA connected with SATA to USB adapter won't

I bought a new external hard disc which I plan to connect through USB in order to backup
some of my files/directories.
Before using I must create some partitions. Now I am wondering wether I need at least a dummy
primary partition on this hard disc.

Good morning,
I have PC with 6 USB devices.
2 AV converters
1 kbd

After disasembling and recycling some pieces off my old and dead 20mb
Conrad Electronics HDD, I got my attention on the spindle motor which
makes the plates spin.
Now, I'm a total newbie on electronics... However I'd like to know how

We've just reached the point with our single-tape backup drive where
we have too much data to back up on a single-tape drive.  Our backup
has now reached 4 tapes, so the backup procedure is simply taking too
long for our business to function at the level it needs to.