Storage

Would upgrade from MB SATA to 3ware RAID card be of benefit?
I built a nice, fast system for myself recently, and have been using the onboard SATA II controller for the 2 hard drives (1 velociraptor, 1 Hitachi 7k1000) and 1 optical drive (Blu-Ray burner) I'm using. I may install more drives in the future, but probably not. In any case, I'm wondering if throughput and depe... 19 Sep 2008 17:03

File system on the HD of a DVD recorder
Hi group, I know this is not a bina fide ibm.pc question, but where else to ask? I have this Sony DVD Recorder, RDR-HX710 with a built in hard drive, WD 160 GB. Late one night my fingers where faster than my brain and rather than reformatting a RW DVD I reformatted the HD, and lost all the cool stuff I had rec... 5 Oct 2008 18:22

Imaging for dual boot?
Been using Acronis True Image for WinXP, but am now dual booting with Vista. Anyone recommend imaging software that can properly handle the dual boot? Thanks -- Derek ... 18 Sep 2008 01:04

Get S.M.A.R.T. information on external USB hard drive
Looking for a freeware utility that will give me S.M.A.R.T. information on an external USB hard drive. I did find HD Tune <http:// www.hdtune.com> but that works on internal drives only. Any help would be greatly appreciated. ... 30 Sep 2008 19:44

lost drive C associations
Earlier this year I formatted and rewrote win xp but for some reason the main and only internal drive was assigned as C: (F:) which some software on cd would not recognize and I never could find a good way resolve it. I recently did a fdisk on the mbr and ended up having to a xp repair which eliminated f and lef... 29 Sep 2008 22:11

What does 2x4 backplane mean?
on a dell server what does 2x4 backplane mean? thanks. ... 27 Sep 2008 19:11

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RAID Storage Array for my Western Digital 250gb drives? - Help!
I have three extra Western Digital 250gb SATA drives that I'd like to put to use. My thought is to put them into a "rack" and make a 750gb RAID array out of them for additional storage on my PC, probably via a USB connection. I've heard of Drobo but is there a less expensive rack I can buy that will allow m... 15 Sep 2008 06:05

Defrag folders on USB drive???
I have a USB2 hard drive, and I want to defrag the folders so they're located at the same spot on the disk. I know Diskeeper does this, but only on boot-time if you set the software to do it. And in this case, the machine must not be recognizing the USB device in time on boot-up, because the boot-time defragmentati... 16 Sep 2008 15:55

External hard disk files and folders disappeared
I'm currently using a Western Digital external hard drive which is 1TB. I have been running it for some weeks now and it has been fine up until now. When I plug the drive in at the moment it is recognized by windows, but not like it was before: it has lost the WD logo. Most importantly windows recognizes a certain ... 17 Sep 2008 16:33