The 80GB drive on Sony VGN-B3XP was about to die, so I purchased a new
160GB drive.  Cloned the old one, fitted new one and works fine except
for the 137GB limit.  The boot up BIOS says 137GB IDE for the drive.
I contacted Sony and they said there was no BIOS firmware update to

Hello, is possibile to create simultaneusly one RAID0 and RAID1 ?
I would obtain better performance from RAID0 and better security from RAID1.
Is better the solution with RAID5 ?
Another ask:

I'm having problems with my western digital 320 GB my book external
hard drive.
I had it for about a year, and it worked fine until recently, when I’d
get a message in the windows task bar saying something like cannot

According to technet the option to "enable write cache" in the policies
window (w2k3) always has an impact on the setting of the underlying
storage, no matter if it's a single dumb sata disk or a high-end
storage-subsystem with integrated RAID-controller.

I'm regularly a PC user but have just purchased a second computer
which is a MAC. I backup my data to a 500GB External HD with 5 NTFS
partitions of 100GB each. Each partition contains a different type of
date, ie Music, Videos, Docs, etc. I used separate partition to avoid

I have a notebook with 250 GB HDD (WD WD2500BEVS : WD Scorpio Blue)
dual boot XP and Ubuntu.
Just before the weekend I try to boot up the notebook to discover that
it has gone into hibernation. The boot proceed to the point it says

Has anyone had any experience with these "Lacie" drives?
Opinions?
Thanks.

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I am eyeing this WD SATA harddrive with (maximal) trnasfer rates of 3 Gb/s:
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Western Digital WD6400AAKS WD Caviar SE16 SATA Internal Hard Drive, 640 GB,

Have Winxp with SP2
Hd 80 gig
got a 500 gig external USB HD and now looking for a good backup program
Want to be able to "create" a copy on the new drive so I can see the files.

I've got a Dell laptop, with Vista Home Premium, and I love it.
I need to install XP as well, and make it a dual boot system, because I want
to run some audio software using XP.
Right now, my ~300GB drive is partitioned as follows:

I bought 2 Lacie external HD (those nice "Porsche design").
One is working allright since 2006,  the transformator of the second
broke after a few uses and I can't find a replacement here in
Italy....

Hello...
I have a USB memory stick and everytime I insert it into a PC (running
WinXP pro) symantec finds 3 x 'loader.exe' on it.
I have formmatted the stick a number of times but each time Auto

How big is a gigabyte in hard drive advertising and packaging?
From another newsgroup, I suppose it's true:
Coverage of a recent New Mexico Supreme Court case said that
states were getting bold in finding excuses to void arbitration

I am currently running three Sonnet 500P eSATA enclosures on a Dell
server using a 4-port Addonics eSATA PCI-X card.
Everything works very well and has been very reliable.  However,
recently I had to do some maintenance on some adjacent hardware, and

I tried replacing the 160GB hard drive in my ReplayTV DVR with a brand
new WD3200AAJB drive. Unfortunately, the AA drives are not compatible
with the Replay 5000 series. (I have never had a problem replacing
ReplayTV drives. The newer drives are largely incompatible, so the