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- Hard Drive Problems (Hitachi Deskstar 120GXP)
- I purchased a 120GB Hard Disk Drive HDD some time ago and installed it as a secondary HDD for my 733 MHZ Packard Bell computer running Windows ME. The BIOS would only let me format 31.4GB.The HDD worked quite well apart from the limitation. H
- Tags: BIOS, deskstar 120gxp, disk drive, GB Drive, hard disk drive, hard drive, hardware, hdd, Hitachi Ltd., mail@..., windows, xp
- Discussion threads 2006-11-02
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- Hitachi Deskstar Drives Power Sauber Petronas' Formula One Competitive Edge
- Formula One is the fastest and most technically advanced sport on the planet. So when Sauber Petronas were building one of the world's most sophisticated centres for aerodynamics, they demanded state-of-the-art technology. That attitude was evident when they chose to upgrade their Computational Fluid Dynamics system. They turned to Swiss...
- Tags: Hitachi Ltd., Hitachi Deskstar, Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- PC Gamers Know It's What Inside That Counts
- Falcon Northwest has been a leader in the PC gaming world since it opened its doors in 1992. Falcon Northwest to offer gamers more than one option when choosing components, each of the company's offerings still has to be first rate. Falcon Northwest's Talon systems have been nearly 100-percent pre-configured...
- Tags: PC, Hitachi Ltd., Falcon Northwest, Storage, Games, Hardware, Personal Technology
- Case studies
- Issue with Adaptec Storage Manager
- The issue we are currently experiencing with the Adaptec Storage Manager is it will show the physical drives as optimal but the logical drives (using RAID 5 configuration) show as degraded.Currently server layout:Chenbro Chassis (41416)Intel D865PERL mobo with Intel P4 3 GHz Processor.2 Gigs of RAM16 x 500 GB Hitachi...
- Tags: dborjal007@..., Adaptec Storage Manager, Adaptec Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-12
- Hard drive performance debated by TechRepublic membership
- A recent client upgrade from Windows 9x to Windows 2000 Professional got TechRepublic member maxwell�edison thinking: "Would a normal user detect a difference in the speed of his or her computer when you switch an older 'first' generation hard drive for a newer 'second' generation model?" Maxwell asked his question...
- Tags: Maxwell, James Detwiler, Fujitsu Ltd., IBM Deskstar, hard drive
- Technical articles 2003-02-06
- Capricorn Technologies - Redefining the Economics of Storage With Hitachi Hard Disk Drives
- Founded in 2004, Capricorn Technologies is a commercial outgrowth of the Internet Archive a non-profit organization founded by industry luminary Brewster Kahle with the lofty goal of universal access to all human knowledge. After building its first few terabyte systems, the Internet Archive team came to a stunning realization: Not...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Disk Drive, Hitachi Ltd., Storage, Hardware
- Case studies
- xp installation cannot find my sata hard drive
- I have a asus p5b deluxe and a hitach 320 gb deskstar sata. when i try to install xp pro on that drive it says no hard drives foundTry Checking BIOS!Try checking for option "Native SATA Support" in your BIOS. If available try disabling it and then booting from XP...
- Tags: Serial ATA, oliveira1972@..., hard drive, BIOS
- Discussion threads 2007-04-22
- Best Hard Drive? Worst Hard Drive?
- Best Hard Drive? Worst Hard Drive?I've had two Maxtor 60 GB (Model 6Y060L0) hard drives fail within 4 week of each other. I was not able to recover any of the data. (Not a huge deal, as it was mostly employees' personal type stuff and/or files they didn't save to...
- Tags: Maxtor Corp., hard drives, maxwell edison, hardware, Seagate Technology LLC, hard drive
- Discussion threads 2006-04-11
- Hard Drive Spins then stops
- I rebooted my PC the other day and it came up with saying that one of my HD was not functional. Un/Fortunetly this was the drive with all my personal files, and nothing to do with XP Pro. I've tried some of the technics listed on this site...
- Tags: AuburnCougar@..., disk, hard drive, hardware
- Q&A 2005-09-26
- hard drive issue
- I have a ibm 60 gig hard drive that was working perfectly, the system on it crashed it was win Me after that it stopped booting. When hooked it makes no sound actually sounds like a brand new hard drive tried every jumper combination i could think of but it...
- Tags: dmit2@..., hard drive, hardware, IBM Corp., Sarge, warranty
- Q&A 2004-10-15
- Windows XP unable to boot after SP2 installation
- After I installed SP2 XP Pro, I cannot boot my PC.My PC consists of Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI motherboard with Athlon 64 4000+ 2.4GHz, XFX 6800GT PCI-E 256 DDR3 graphic card, 2x Hitachi 7K80 Deskstar 80GB SATA-II drives on RAID 0, with 2GB PC3200 RAM.I'd appreciate your inputs. Thank youIf you...
- Tags: Bin, BIOS, DOS, floppy disk, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows XP, Service Pack 2, takeshi_hosokawa@..., windows
- Q&A 2005-11-23
- Raid-Channels available for Harddrive/CD/DVD?
- i have ga-7n400 pro2-board. its a raid board with ide3/ide4(raid/ata 133). actually i have one 160gb plus one cd-rw. i want to add one more optical drive. since i have my board outside the case it is easy connecting temporarly a backup drive to the secondary channel. can i also...
- Tags: europanorama@..., IDE, optical drive, RAID, RAID Controller
- Q&A 2005-08-28
- College instructor needs info on hard drives
- Some months back, many of you professional IT people waded in on the long term reliability of various hard drives for desk tops and servers. IBM seemed to be a noted recipient of criticism. I would appreciate if you folks would reiterate your experience, good and bad, of the respective...
- Tags: hard drive, hard drive reliability, Maxtor Corp., Western Digital Corp., brand, jacksdaddy1@..., hardware
- Discussion threads 2006-06-20
- Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A Port Timeout
- Running Windows Server 2003. Adaptec ATA RAID 1200A. 2 Mirrored 120 GB drives. One partition (C:). RAID controler BIOS is latest.At seemingly random intervals, I recieve the following error in the system event log:Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: hpt3xxEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 117Date: 3/8/2005Time: 15:56:38User: N/AComputer: ESAUDescription:The driver for device DeviceScsihpt3xx1 detected a port timeout due to prolonged inactivity....
- Tags: Adaptec Inc., hardware, Susu
- Q&A 2005-03-08
- Build a computer for a Vista 5.9 Performance Rating
- The Vista Performance Index provides a visual and numerical representation of how well your computer might perform. Having to support users in a graphics-extensive environment, I've found it useful to help grade various computer components. It's not a coincidence to see the sluggish computers return a low performance score, 2.8...
- Tags: Processor, Performance, Memory, Microsoft Windows Vista, Graphics, Computer, Vista Performance Index, Productivity, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Joe Rosberg
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- New releases at PC Expo
- Hal Glatzer reports from PC Expo on the latest, greatest products in the hard disk drive market.If new, higher-capacity hard disk drives are on your budgetary wish list this year, drives with storage exceeding 30 gigabytes GB are worth a look. They're on display this week at PC Expo.Quantum Corp....
- Tags: Hal Glatzer, microdrive, internal data transfer, Mbps, data transfer, IBM Corp., PC Expo, Atlas 10K, Atlas, maximum internal data transfer, disk, disk drive, hard drive, Quantum Corp.
- Technical articles 1999-06-23
- Hard Drives Dying
- Just in the several months, I have had four hard drives go bad in three desktops and one laptop. All of the computers are plugged into surge protectors and power filters with the exception of the laptop when I am away form my desk. The desktops are normally left on...
- Tags: brand, computer, hard drive, hard drives, hardware, power supply, protector, stagehandler@...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-15
- Global PC shipments grow, but revenue remains flat
- Predicting PC shipments and revenue for 2007Hewlett-Packard, the largest PC maker in the world, expanded its lead over Dell in the fourth quarter worldwide. According to Gartner, revenue generated from worldwide PC sales across the industry remained flat at $201.1 billion. Gartner predicts that PC shipments will go up by...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Sonja Thompson
- Discussion threads 2007-01-18
- My HD is alive but with a noisy sound
- After I read alot of a great useful things in here I have a question regarding my dead HD.. or actually half dead just right now, my HD is IBM deskstar 82GB, it was working but suddenly stopped and no spinning at all dead just like no power.. tried many...
- Tags: backup, hardware, HD, imgstudio@..., storage
- Discussion threads 2005-08-17
- Rob Marshall @ www.MyITForum.com
- Rob Marshall @ www.MyITForum.comblog rootStudy group - UKAnyone from the UK interested in setting up a study group or even a user group (one already exist?) with me?We have healthy examples of how to go about this, and examples of content from our USACanadiannon-UK counterparts.This post originally appeared on an...
- Tags: Web site development, Web technology, rob@..., external Website, Rob Marshall, Web site, 3D
- Discussion threads 2005-08-21
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