Storage

any thoughts on a pciex4 rocket raid 2320 vs an areca arc-1220 pciex8 card?
markm75 wrote in news:5c94d6b5-aa70-4ca9-9ff0-7a6de01c2c5e(a)y21g2000hsf.googlegroups.com asking the same question over and over again. Areca ARC-1220 pciex8 raid 0,1,1e,3,5,6 and jbod $434 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16816131004 Works in vista (x64?) Highpoint RocketRaid 232... 23 Jul 2008 10:12

SATA link up 1.5 Gbps
Arno Wagner wrote in news:6bunoiF3dme79U1(a)mid.individual.net Previously Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx(a)gmail.com> wrote: Arno Wagner wrote: I think it does, but it matters very little. You will not get any perceptable speed-up over 1.5GB. The one advantage at this time is better compatibility, ... 23 Jul 2008 10:12

HD Backup ?
Arno Wagner wrote in news:6bav88F39fcc9U4(a)mid.individual.net Previously chrisv <chrisv(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: Fred (Ron Speed) wrote: Then, of course, there's the new version of some MS product. All of the menus have been rearranged. You're lying now. ... 23 Jul 2008 10:12

Help me simulate PATA hard disk in PIO mode 0
I want to simulate a PATA hard disk, in PIO mode 0. Basically, I want to respond to two commands: Identify Drive (0ECh), and Read Sector (20h, 21h, 0C4h). I use two motherboards to test my hardware, one from 1997 and one from 2005. This is how the old motherboard behaves: BIOS recognizes the 'disk' as PI... 23 Jul 2008 04:04

Phantom Drive on My PC
Hello, I bought a refurbished IBM NetVista (model 8305MU3) that came with an actual IDE CdRom (drive D) and a phantom SCSI CdRom configured as drive E, as can be seen from this System Information summary: Drive D: Description CD-ROM Drive Media Loaded No Media Type CD-ROM Name LITEON CD-ROM LTN486S ... 22 Jul 2008 09:35

Hard Disk Corruption After Fail Hibernate Wakeup
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 that wakeup from hibernation fail and give me the option to delete the data and s... 24 Jul 2008 13:56

Is this a standard ribbon cable?
Bought one of these cheap ide 2 usb adapters. It works, but the cheap ribbon cable they sent me broke in two days (only 2 inches long). It appears to be a standard ribbon hard drive cable. Female connector at one end connects to any hard drive and male connector at other end connects to usb2ide adapter device.... 23 Jul 2008 10:12

write cache (win/Storage)
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 do understand that this setting always implies windows ... 23 Jul 2008 10:12

Reading floppy disks
I have a floppy disk that reads without problem in most machines (running windows). The other day, I was using a windows machine and the floppy just kept spinning. On putting the floppy in another computer it read without a problem. Can anyone explain this. Thanks. ... 16 Jul 2008 21:18

WD Passport - WD Sync
I have a WD Passport drive that has lost many files. The major problem I have is that the system uses something called WD Sync that encrypts the files with 128 bit encryption - I think AES. I have the password, and so would like guidance on how to decrypt the files. Any pointers or ideas would be appreciated.... 15 Jul 2008 05:07