Our software developers are starting to use VMware workstation as a matter
of course to run various development environments at the same time. Our
current standard of 32 bit Windows XP limits us to 3GB of memory so we're
considering switching to 64 bit Vista with 6GB memory.

Now I just got myself a new power supply tester doohickey. It tests all
kinds of cables and cords coming out of power supplies, including SATA
ones. According to it, a SATA cable should see +12V, +5V, and +3.3V. Now
my power supply doesn't have any native SATA cables, so I've ...

I was reading about the Solar storm of 1859 on wikipedia.org and about
how really massive solar storms can fry electronics and...  I'm
curious...  what could one do to protect against a hard drive against
this?  As I understand it, placing an object in a faraday cage should

It seems that you just can't update a USB drive I have one that is only 7 days
old, has clicking noises and disappears and is on the list of Bad drives but
not the Serial number, that is a Con as they do not support USB drives..
ST31000340AS  SD81 firmware..

Hi, I´m looking for a hdd formatting tool that can formats specific
partitions or whole hdd´s with the press of one button? The formatting
should be a low-level format (i want it really non-readable) .
Regards

I don't have any Exabyte AME tapes so I can't see for myself.  Would someone
please post a description of the recognition holes and write protect state holes
on the underside of the cartridge (I can't find a description on the 'Net either).
Please orient the tape with the ...

My HP zd7000 (5 years old) laptop's hard drive went kaput.  I have
Hitachi Travelstar IC25N model hard drive.  I was working on somethin
and then I got a general windows error "hard disk error" -- then i
froze.  On reboot, it says no OS found, disk error.  I am pretty sur

From all the hype it sounded like a USB external HD was a better choice
than a second IDE or SATA internal drive, so I got an iMicro 1TB drive to
store my backups and recover some data from a partially disabled drive.
The darn thing came with a 5-page pamphlet written in Engrish:  ...

I have a 2 gig non-Sony Memstick ProDuo which seems only to be able to
hold 1 gig.  After that it writes broken files.  Full sized but
broken.   So it can write a 50 gig video file but as soon as it starts
to read it, the read stops. No amount of self-formatting can help this

I have been looking at the Seagate 1.5 TB drives on Pricewatch. Some
of the ads do not list the warranty period.  Some list the warranty
period as three years.  Some list the warranty period as five years.
I looked on the Seagate web site and all I found was this:

Does a defragger, such as PerfectDisk, perform the equivalent of a
CHKDSK before defragging?
If not, then should I be running CHKDSK before every defrag?

Informational posting, looks like the next generation of SATA is around
the corner.
DailyTech - Seagate Demos 6Gb/sec SATA with AMD
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=14523

Well, I execute a series disk upgrades on my system yesterday and today.
I copied the contents of two drives to two other new drives. Each new
drive was obviously empty and freshly formatted beforehand. My
assumption was that copying the entire contents of each older drive

I heard recently that there has been a high number of 1tb USB
failing...?  Has anyone seen or read anything ...?

Anyone interest in *real*, rugged, manly data storage would be well advised
to check out this auction:
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320347786935
Who needs wimpy SATA or solid-state disks?