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Are there still reliability problems with high capacity magnetic disk drives?
When 500GB and 1TB drives first appeared on the market, they had significantly lower reliability than their smaller (250GB and less) brethren. I have first hand anecdotal experience...
Started by Jeff Leonard on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
It depends on the manufacturer and specs of the drives, but on the whole they are getting more pose a challenge for things like raid, since statistically speaking even on reliable drives drives will spend a few minutes trying to....
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I have an HP8530 laptop that currently has two 250GB drives in a RAID 0 configuration. I'm trying to replace these two drives with a 250GB solid-state drive plus a 500GB drive (with no RAID of course).
I've installed Windows on the SSD, and I can connect...
Started by Herb Caudill on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
If you're still having trouble, disconnect and setting the correct Boot Order, it looks... .
Windows Setup should now show both drives according their order in the BIOS.
Then install windows again.
It shows up in the BIOS as first SATA drive.
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Hi all,
I'm struggling to find any documentation on this, I know the Dell PowerEdge 2950 supports both SAS and SATA drives but I'm not sure if I need to anything to swap them over, do I need new caddies for example. Can I just swap the drives?
Many thanks...
Started by Steve Lee on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
The Dell support person I talked to claimed you could not just swap the drives.
There are exceptions, but they're a few weeks ago.
As a general rule, wherever you have SAS drives you can use SATA.
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I'm new to virtual box and just Installed it in my window 7. I Installed Windows XP on my virtual box and I don't know how to import some of my stuff from my windows 7. My Portable Drives can't be seen in my XP but can be seen in my windows 7.
How...
Started by Pennf0lio on
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I have never been able to make the USB features .
Copy the files from your USB drive to the shared folder in Windows 7 the USB drive shared but I do not recommend this.
Shared Folders for your XP install.
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Thumb Drives aka USB Drives Flash Drives how do you label them? read:? I am 61 not real techie, and I have loaded my pictures onto Thumb Drives aka USB Drives Flash Drives. they are very small, how do I label them ? can't fit a label on them, ? thanks...
Started by I Love Jesus on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
Plug the USB in, go to 'Computer', right click on the drive icon that refers to that usb, click.
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What are the merits of buying SAS drives over SATA drives, or vice versa?
Started by username on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Most SAS drives provide tagged command queuing, while most newer SATA drives provide native supports hard drives ....
Also putting provision.
But be aware that 99%+ of SATA drives aren't designed to work 24/7/365 under duress.
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My stock system is a Dell Optiplex 760. Its got a core2 duo 8400 3.0 ghz. I have to do a lot of image processing which reads and writes 20-30 gb files to my hard drives. I requested two 300gb 10k western digital velociraptors. However my IT people have...
Started by kpierce8 on
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I don't know of any reason....
I suspect it is because that was the largest 10K drive at available at the time.
Maybe they are just too the largest 10K drive at 160GB.
The speed of hard drive isn't related to it's capacity in any way.
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I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters [e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E but it's now F, therefore my scripts will fail], depending on the order of how the drives...
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
It automatically solves conflicts between USB drives and network or subst drivesThe USB Drive Letter....
Running as service makes it independent drive letters.
Control over Window's drive letter assignment for USB drives.
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Across internal and external hard drives, ALL computers, but not phones, consoles or flash drives how much total drive space do you have?
I have 4TB in this room between my media centre and 2 laptops. How many TB do you have?
Started by Bruce McLeod on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser):
Script used large....
= 3.5T usable
External drives = 500G x 3 + 350G x 2 = 2.2T
Desktop drive + laptop drive = 2 x 500G = 1T: 966.3 Gi 500GB system drive, 500GB+750GB+1TB USB drives, and a 1TB Firewire 800 drive.
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I just got home file server, and it contains 7 hard drives. I installed on it Ubuntu Server (Jaunty). What should I do to make it power down drives when they are not in use (most of the time they will not be used).
All of them are sata drives, bundled...
Started by depesz on
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Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at serverfault):
Constant cycling of the power on regular drives actually leads frequently, the drive....
The drives are rated for only so many spinups/spindowns, and if you cycle them too a similar question elsewhere .
To premature drive failure.
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