Given that there's a few data retrieval experts amongst this group I was
wondering if Samsung drive reliability is any worse than other brands these
days?
I ask because lately I'm reading a lot of negativity about them in various

I tested yesterday my 120GB barracuda 7200.7 drive, which is a router
hdd working 24h, this test let me know that i have a few dozen blocks
under 500ms (those browns, not the "hardcore" :P red ones), so im
curious..what will be better; to zeroing and remap this drive to be

The IOPS the array can deliver is the aggregate of all the drives in the raid group less the hot spares and parity drives.  Its more complicated than that of course but its a not bad rule of thumb. So 10 data drives that can each deliver 100 iops could (in theory) deliver 1000 ...

I am currently at work on a new edition of my textbook, Computer
Organization and Architecture. Your mission, should you decide to
accept it, is to carefully read a chapter to check for technical
errors, computational errors, and typos. In return, you will be

A Western Digital SATA (system)drive suddenly failed SMART and I replaced
it and re-installed everything.  Chkdsk attempts to fix it but always gets
stuck at a certain point.
When attached as another internal drive or hooked up via USB I can see and

We are a looking at buying a SAN. Size is barely an issue (less than
2TB initally), but we would like something extendable. We would to run
important (but not big in terms of size or transactions) database
(both MS SQL and Oracle) as well as perhaps Exchange on there, and

(Running XP Home, and Stomp BackupMyPC software, doing a backup
to file of 18gig plus in size, "all" files systems are NTFS)
My backup program cannot finish it's backup to a another machine's
USB drive on the network. I also tried doing the backup on the USB

Coffee was spilled on the laptop keyboard. When I opened it up to
clean, I found coffee between the harddrive carrier and the drive PCB.
After everything was put back, the computer won't boot. The drive
wasn't recognized in BIOS. I put it in a USB external enclosure, and

A customer came into the store the other day with a Toshiba external
400 GB Harddrive and had a problem I've never encountered before.
He had done a backup of his photos using the backup software that came
along with the harddrive.

This might not be the right newsgroup to ask this question. (If so, perhaps
someone will point me in the right direction.)
Suppose I want to make a complete copy of a hard disk, including the
fragments of deleted files. Does this require some special process, or will

I am trying to install Windows 98 as a way to then upgrade it to XP
on a box and it goes fine through the first installation phase, but
then I am getting:
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I am a bit anal when it comes to backing up my system, because I HATE
reinstalling and updating the OS, all applications, and then getting
the system back to the way I want it.  I create a Ghost image of my
boot drive at least twice a month, creating the Ghost file on two

I've had good results using a particular file recovery program but it will
only search for standard files types i.e. doc, txt, generic picture formats
etc etc.
Are then any recovery utilities which can be instructed to look for a non

A PC has an IDE Quantum Fireball Plus AS 30 Gb drive which has
developed 2 bad sectors.
I used the Seagate's Seatools (DOS version) to diagnose and repair the
drive.

According to reviews on the Amazon site for True Image backup software, the
software doesn't work correctly with SATA drives.
Comments?
Joe