Forum: Hard Drives & Storage

I'm in the market for a NAS and was wondering what you guys had any advice on the subject? > What I need it for. Mainly back up. I was going to get a basic USB Hard Drive but I quite like the idea of having a web server sat on the network so I can develop websites on it. At the moment I've just...

Hi ive been wanting a new harddrive for ages but not got round to it. Im wanting one because when i start up my PC sometimes it says boot disc faild so i have to keep restarting also it keeps making clicking noises like its turning something on and off. Can you buy any HD or have you got to buy a...

help plz is there a software to test ssd drives as mine as drop over a point on windows 7 index experience

32GB, 64Gb and 128GB (256 is definitely out of my reach). I might be getting a bit of money to spend by the end of the summer, so I might look at getting a new PC, or to at least make this one better. The first point of call is, quite naturally, an SSD. I might add another awesome WD Caviar...

before the weekend a family friend thought his pc was broken cos it was warm and over heating . he thought it would be a good idea to change psu to see if it was the same problem i resolved a few months back , well i got his pc yesterday and look what i was met with because he was impatient ! oh...

So folks, exams are almost over, and I'll have some time on my hands (hopefully some money too if the Job comes through!)..... Looking to replace my current set of drives with a single high capacity drive.... I have: 74gb Raptor 250gb Hitachi 640gb Samsung Has anyone had personal...

Is a 2.5" HDD in an unpowered enclosure, linked to a low-power netbook likely to put a cumulative strain/burn-out on the netbook and its PSU if it is accessed many times a day, maybe 2-3x an hour? I'm thinking of the initial startup surges each time it responds to a data call rather than the...

I've somehow weirdly managed to create a dynamic drive a while back on which I have 4 partitions. I can't do anything with the partitions as a result (move, copy, resize etc) and have read that the only solution is to (eventually) delete all the info off the drive and reformat it to remove the...

On Tuesday I oredered This SSD from CCL which arrived on Wednesday, all good so far. I installed it and then started the computer and start a windows 7 installation, but when it finally gets to the part where you pick the installation drive it says no drives found, yay... So then I try the...

Wanted to know if you guys at CCL were looking at bringing in the GTR USB pen drives from Corsair. I hear the they are UBER fast. They look pretty cool as well. http://www.corsair.com/products/voyager/photo1.png

Hi I purchased this drive in January and it has been running fine up until now. I downloaded estool from the samsung website and received an AJ39 Bad sector and AJ39 Dma error during the diagnostic test. The drive is visible in the bios but not in windows. The system is also locking up during...

Hi been a while. For about a month and a bit ago ive been getting boot disc fail coming up when i turn my PC on. This only happens every now and then. But the PC keeps making clicking noises at the front sounding like something is trying to turn on and off inside. My brother checked my PC and he...

Hi all, After many failed attempts to upgrade my PC due to me being poor :(, i've decided on a few smaller changes. Just ordered a GTX 275 and now looking at HDD's. My options are either 2 x Samsung F3's in Raid 0 or a 30GB Kingston SSDNow. Basically although i would love a Solid State...

Update (03/29/2010): Intel has recently released a new driver that allows Windows 7’s TRIM instructions to be passed through the Southbridge. The new driver is labeled "Rapid Storage Technology 9.6" and it can be found here. These drivers are also able to pass TRIM commands to RAID 0 and RAID 1...

Hi all, Do any of you have a SSD that allows you to disable write-cache under Windows 7, as the GSkill Falcon II will not allow me to do this, as enabling write-cache is a way of causing data-corruption on a drive. The drive's going back to CCL tomorrow anyway, due to the issues I've had...

I thought It would be a good idea to pool all the info we have on configuring an SSD and more importantly configuring the OS around it. As well as your own tips and tricks I'm looking for stuff that's been done before, as long as you reference the author and give a link to the site/forum it's...

I've had my Falcon II about 3 months now and been using it as my windows 7 drive - recently my pc totally crashed and i couldn't get into windows no matter what i tried. In the end I thought i would do a re-install but this failed, so I ended up installing W7 on my standard SATA drive. I noticed...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/06/velociraptor_gen_5/ Point much? With 3.6ms read and 4.2ms write latency its still going to be beaten by an SSD for tasks where speed matters and for tasks where speed doesn't matter than it's going to be beaten on the price per GB of a normal HDD. I...

Hello guy's, I'm tempted to buy one, just have a few questions. Are they any good has a primary drive, as in with the os installed onto? How long are they expected to last? Is it only windows 7 that can efficiently use ssd's? I read somewhere that they drop in performance when it...

Well, my non-TRIM SSD has sold on ebay (fifteen sheets more than I'd hoped too) so now it's down to picking a replacement: 64GB Samsung PB22-J 2.5" - £145.00 220/120 Crucial 2.5 64GB M225 SSD - £146.78 200/150 64GB G.Skill Falcon II SSD - £146.95 220/110 64GB Corsair Nova Series 2.5" -...

Seems like a handy service for those not too comfortable trying to recover data themselves - £25 for HDD "insurance", if it fails within three years they'll foot the bill to have it sent off and recovered to an external drive - including sending the entire PC if you're not comfortable removing it:...

In the last week when ive turned my PC on twice its come up with boot disc failure. Is this the Hard drive or the dvd rom drive problem or other. Or could be just a cable loose inside. Like i said its only happend twice so far and hope fully its not a big problem. Thanks for any help

As some of you might remember I've got a portable drive connected to my Mac Mini Server.. It now holds approximately half my films (thanks to the new i7!) but is almost completely maxed out (at its 500gb). I want a portable drive thats powered through a USB port (ideally only one) so I can...

Hello I'm not sure if I'm in the right place to ask, but I've had a good look round and can't find any relevant information anywhere in the forums. I have bought the quad NAS and fitted a 1TB drive. I have copied some directories to it, only a few gigabytes but now I keep being told that there...

Any body used this bit of kit? I was tinking about it as I've got an esata port on my AB-9 Pro doing nothing and the price seems good. Looked around but couldn't find any reviews so any info appreciated.

Just to inform people that this box cannot be used with the 60GB Samsung N1 1.8" Hard Disk Drive The drive uses a ZIF ribbon cable connector, whereas the Dane box has a miniature SATA connector. I hope that helps ttfn Derek

http://forum.corsair.com/v3/showthread.php?t=83708 But it's for on certain versions. Maybe helpful to someone.

Hi guys. Last week I picked up an Antec Twelve Hundred, an Intel 80Gb SSD and an Akasa 2.5"to 3.5" Mounting Frame. A few Antec cases (such as the 900 and 1200) use their own hard drive caddies, as can be seen here. When installing normal, full sized 3.5", hard drives in them they have to be...