Posted by timothy (91% noise) View Skip MessedRocker writes “I have at least a few USB flash drives around that I haven’t needed since I got my 16GB flash drive, a 40GB external hard drive which I haven’t needed since I upgraded to 500GB, and a couple of SATA hard drives I have pul...

Since I wrote the review of the NewerTech Voyager Q drive dock last week, I’ve received a lot of great questions both via email and in the article’s comments. Rather than answer them individually, I thought it might make sense to address them here in a quick follow-up article. What drive...

Posted by timothy (79% noise) View Skip hackingbear writes “I’m considering buying a current-generation SSD to replace my external hard disk drive for use in my day-to-day software development, especially to boost the IDE’s performance. Size is not a great concern: 120GB is enough ...

With the advent of new SATA drives, as you probably know, there was a big naming issue. The old IDE drives needed a name to distinguish it from SATA drives and so the name PATA was born. The P in PATA refers to Parallel (ATA drives) while the S in SATA is Serial (ATA drives). [...]...

I am overjoyed this evening!  I was able to successfully rescue about 200 GB of data off of a hard drive that I couldn't mount. Originally, I thought I did a pretty good job of managing my data when I created a RAID-1 volume using the Solaris Volume Manager.  I had two identical drives in ...

i have the following hardware for desktop computers for sale. al were pulled from working systems due to upgrades. (8)256mb ddr2 ram sticks....5.00ea (2)80gb IDE hard drives....20.00ea (2)160gb IDE hard drives...30.00ea or willing to sell it all for 100.00 which is a total of 40.00 less than my aski...

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natura.oskuro.net, the home server which still serves this blog, has been suffering hardware problems for some weeks. Apparently the hard drive is failing intermittently, so every now the kernel starts spewing out noisy errors about its main disk dying. If I notice this quickly, it can be rebooted a...

Microsoft has changed the PC performance rating tool Windows Experience Index for Windows 7 to better measure faster graphic cards, multicore processors, and drives. The index's top score will go up from 5.9 to 7.9, and add several new tests to more accurately measure the performance of hard-dis...

Call Brian @ 425-503-5991. Cash or Trade for IPOD, Wii games or Wii hardware. See description & review of laptop here: http://archive.laptopmag.com/Review/Toshiba-Tecra-M5.htm Great used Toshiba laptop. Very dependable and works fine. This machine was used in a small business and we no longer need i...