Hey guys! Anyone know of deals on one of the following HDD? Im looking for a 2.5", in 250gb or 320gb.
WD Scorpio Series BEVS/BEAS
- WD Scorpio Blue Series BEVS/BEVT/BPVT
- WD Scorpio Black Series BEKT/BJKT
- WD VelociRaptor Series
- WD AV-25 Series BUDT
The best
one i came across is this...
Hi guys.
My external is broke.
Ok not physically, but the other day whilst copying some files, i needed to cancel. The cancellation process continued for hours on a 500mb file. I figured something was wrong and just pulled out the external.
Now when I plug into any PC it asks me to...
Every since the whole Thailand flood issue hard drive prices have gone up and is some cases you now pay more than double what you paid for a few months ago.
I am aware that some of the production facilities have been flooded but can the impact really be that big? I mean, it must be massive...
I thought of creating a Virtual Hard Disk in Virtual PC and then copying files to that, saving state ect. Moving the Virtual Hard Disk to DVD or other backup media.
The reason for this is that a virtual hard drive size of say 80GB is compressed to about 20GB on the local PC and it is a fixed...
:D Was stripping some old written off PCs today and found a 40MB hard drive, which I remember installing years ago. At the time I was so excited about this massive amount of storage! Now my digital camera will fill it up with only 10 photos! It's mind boggling how fast things have changed.
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Hi Guys,
Got this hard drive yesterday from Makro:
http://www.makro.co.za/p/31945/verbatim-2tb-external-hard-drive/
It feels very slow so I am contemplating on returning it. Windows says its gonna take 14 hours to do 250GB backup.
Did a benchmark test under Ubuntu and it gave me...
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People often ask for recommendations when buying a new HDD. Here's an interesting article stemming from a data recovery company in Russia detailing their experiences. Their findings are interesting and in line with my experience so I think we can apply it, to a certain...
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I need to up my storage space, and am planning on buying a 2TB SATA II drive.
I opened up my case and noticed that I have no more SATA power cables left, only a bunch of molex.
I see there are lots of cheaply available molex to SATA convertors (eg), but I've been told that these can lead to...
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well i have been doing lots of head scratching and hair pulling. Bought a new 1.5tb drive for my pc a month ago. and the dam thing intermittently seems to power down and power back up, you literally hear it klunk off and on. I've checked the power settings in the bios and in windows 7 and...
I am completely shocked....
A client of mine wants to get a new Desktop PC so I bought all the stuff from a importer called PC International and put it all together when I got it today,After building the PC I plugged in all the cables screen,mouse and keyboard and pressed the power button on...