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 | Deduplication used to be an exclusive tool of the large enterprise, with an imposing cost, a daunting learning curve, and – with file-only deduplication – a limited ability to use deduplicated data to restore a failed machine. Until now, deduplication has been too expensive to implement in any but the … |
| | Recently I plugged my Western Digital external hdd into my computer and it will keep turning off and then the lights will come back on and it will spin for about 7 seconds and then do the same thing over and over again.. I contacted WD with no help really … |
| | I have a HP DLT VS160 model tape drive with HP DLTtape VS1(160GB) I made backup of my database on tape drive through windows Backup utility and through SQL server Administration now Please guide me how to access the contents of tape drive and if I want to delete the … |
| | Hello everyone! I've really big problem with my external disc. I have two of them (Transcend StoreJet 25M, one of them is mine and other is my father's), same size, bought at the same time. Last nigh my dad reinstalled Windows Vista on his Toshiba laptop, and did a stupid … |
| | I have a Dell about 5 years old.os is xp,the cd reader is not responding.Under device manager there is a yellow exclamation point.the computor says I have the correct drivers installed.I bought a new reader and the same problem exsists.I swapped ide cable connections on the motherboard with the hard … |
 | Most often, when someone talks about a filesystem or file system, they're referring to disk filesystems such as NTFS, FAT, ext2, ext3, ext4, ISO 9660 and many others but can also refer to network file systems such as CIFS (Common Internet File System aka Samba) and NFS. A filesystem is … |
 | You already know how important it is to archive business email in case you need it later for reference, audits, or litigation, but storing all those archived bits and bytes is a real headache. Shoving them all on disks or a dedicated hard drive isn't practical or secure, and searching … |
 | I thought I would do a blog on everyday tech stuff that I come across :) I just got a IBM Netfinity 5600, Came through the post a couple of days a go and I was very impressed with it :) Specs: P3 @ 866 1.5GB Ram 2 18GB SCSI … |
 | Rob Siemborski, Gmail Engineer, wrote in the [URL="http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/more-gmail-storage-coming-for-all.html"]official Gmail blog[/URL] on Friday that "a few of you are using Gmail so much that you're running out of space, so to make good on our promise, today we're announcing we are speeding up our counter and giving out more free storage." … |
| | [URL="http://www.kva.se/KVA_Root/index_eng.asp?br=ie"]The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences[/URL] has awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2007 to Albert Fert from France and Peter Grünberg from Germany for their discovery of Giant Magnetoresistance. Working independently, the two discovered the Giant Magnetoresistance effect in 1988, although it wasn't until 1997 that the first … |
| | Twenty years ago the hard drives I recall using might not have been fast in the data transfer stakes, they were certainly not lithe and sexy pieces of hardware and I prefer not to think how much I actually paid for a large and clunky bit of kit to store … |
| | I have been a supporter of RAID for the longest time; after all it would be crazy not to like something that brings efficiency and protection to the data storage process. RAID has certainly provided both, but that was then and this is now, and it is time for RAID … |
| | Starting May 2007, Yahoo is going to offer unlimited inbox storage. That's right, to celebrate their 10th anniversary, [URL="http://yodel.yahoo.com/2007/03/27/yahoo-mail-goes-to-infinity-and-beyond"]there will be absolutely no limit on the number of messages you can hold in your mailbox[/URL]. This is obviously to compete with Google's Gmail and other similar providers, which are offering … |
| | Well, not quite. However, Panasonic are claiming to have developed a tellurium suboxide palladium-doped phase-change recording film with a very high transmittance and crystallization rate. Or put another way, this Te-O-Pd process enables four 25Gb layers to be used without any loss of data quality and Panasonic reckons that will … |
| | In just a few hours time, Sony Pictures will point to the future by releasing the new Adam Sandler movie, Click, in 50Gb Blu-ray format. To put that in a little context, it means that the one disc will feature the high-definition movie, plus uncompressed Pulse Code Modulation audio, and … |
| | Are you running out of room on that notebook's hard drive? Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have released an 'upgrade kit' that just might be the answer you're looking for. It wouldn't surprise me to see other manufacturer's offer similar kits in future. [img]http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/binary/com.epicentric.contentmanagement.servlet.ContentDeliveryServlet/hgst/products/Retail%2520Products/images/ts_uk_contents_230x160.jpg[/img] The [url=http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/site/en/menuitem.6e185ca3ee5b04d2fce80bd5eac4f0a0/]Notebook PC Upgrade Kit[/url] includes a …  |
 | Toshiba announced last week that they are producing a 1.8" hard drive using perpendicular recording to allow hard drive storage capabilities to 40 GB on a single platter. These types of drives are found in small hand-held devices such as Apple's iPod MP3 player. Computers typically use 2.5" hard drives. … |
| | After formatting four times, a Maxtor diamondmax 9 6Y080MO using MSI-PM8M2-V motherboard with a celeron D 2.93, the hard drive is not recgonized to reinstall XP home. What can be done for Windows to see the HD. Here's another problem: I have two 6Y080MO HD's. I have one running on … |
| | Ok so what ive done was back up all my files that i want to keep on a second hard drive so i could install another windows. all worked fine, installed windows everything working fine until i go to put the other hard drive in thats got all my stuff …  |
| | Hi A couple of days ago, my hard drive completely died. I didn't back up my work files, and would like to get them back. Is there any way I can get them back? The hard drive is absoluetely unrecognized. The SATA cables are in perfectly but the hard drive … |
| | I installed MOZY FREE Backup software on my computer by following their instructions. After installation, my computer kept freezing and then I got the Windows Blue Screen of Death! Basically, MOZY FREE Backup CRASHED my computer. I could not even do a system restore. I had to restore my computer … |
| | greetings! i just bought a new samsung 320gb 3.0gb/s HDD. unfortunately, i didn't know that my MB only supported SATA-I. i connected the HDD to 2nd sata(primary) slot, turned on my computer, but when i checked my bios it said that it didn't detect any hard drive. so i placed … |
| | [url]http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=k8vga-m[/url] The details to the motherboard are listed in the link above. ok the issue is that the 500GB SATA hard drive is not listed in the bios. I have verified that the drive is in fact a good drive by installing it into a different computer. now according to … |
| | Can anybody tell me .How should i come to know that My computer is uses 32 bit means 2^32 virtual Addressspace.or 64 bits means 2^64 bit virtual Address Space.and this virtual space where exits RAM/Microprocessor.Kindly let me know the idea. |
 | Hello everyone. I'm having trouble with a TS-L632D DVD+-RW drive installed on a Dell XPS M1210 notebook with Windows XP Media Center Edition. The drive reads CDs and DVDs, but cannot write/burn on any blank disk... nor a data CD with free space available. Whenever I try to burn data … |
| | I recently started using my old hard drive as a slave and would like to get all the data off so i can format it. The user data and compaq owner data folders give me access denied even though i am logged in as system administrator. Any suggestions how to … |
| | I was working with a computer that is rarely used but for a type of server. I use it as part of my whole house audio and to store some videos and music plus some other things. I was working with it a little when it just slowed down to … |
| | Hello, I'm looking to buy a new harddrive. I was considering [URL="http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd/productmodel.do?type=61&subtype=63&model_cd=249"]this[/URL] one. What do you think of it, or do you have any other reccomendations for a fast, silent 1TB drive? Pim |
| | Hi all, Does anybody know any good websites for finding benchmarks on a variety of storage devices (i.e. HDD, Flash drives, SSD, etc.)? Preferably where different types of connections, such as SATA, ATA and USB, are compared separately. Thanks in advance. |
| | We have a HP ML350 G4 (actually 2) with a Smart Array 641 controller and drive bay which currently has 2 72GB drives configured as 1 logical drive under the HP Array Config Utility. There are 4 slots still open in the drive bay and I need to add more …  |
| | I am a proud owner of a hp laptop for the last 9 months. It has 160gb hard drive. Unfortunately, it's storage capacity is coming to an end. What external hard-drive should I get? I prefer non AC power ones, but I also like 1 TB ones. Which should I … |
| | I have had a PC fail to boot with some pretty scary messages. Apparently (I didn't see it) there was a BSOD with the classic DOS type messages in a white courier typeface. I'm told that there was mention of missing or corrupt system files. Then it refused to boot … |
| | I bought 2 drives, both the same, both from ncix.com, both 1 terabyte WDs. I've tried them in 2 computers with known working sata hard drives. I can't believe that I would've received 2 faulty Western Digital drives. All the settings are correct in the bios as far as I … |
| | I need to build an application/database server that will cater for about 250 members of staff.This server will have HumanManager(HumanManager is a full web based solution) running on it.I would love to know the hardware/ software specification for this server: Server Specification: Processor Memory(RAM) Disk Space Software Specifications: Server OS … |
| | I have one HD of data with 120GB and I have another HD thats completely clean with 20GB. I want to merge both of them into one single Unit. Can Windows do it? How? I want to do this the easiest way. Thanks in advance.  |
| | i have seagate Sata External Harddisk 160GB. last day i have take somebackup from that harddisk coz that was getting some problem. i detect for a while and after that it goes dead and again detect it. Today i have try to connect the hard but its detect only for …  |
 | Hello, everyone. Recently i am facing a serious problem about hard disk. I Have two seagate SATA hard disk. it's my fault cause i didn't regularly backup to the second(120GB-made in china) hard disk. Recently this happened when i tried to pull out the first(80 GB) hard disk from the … |
| | Hello Family ! I have a Dell Dimension E310, with an 80GB Samsung hard drive in it. It had/has Windows Media Center on it. The hard drive went bad and gave me the error that said.... Loading PBR for descriptor 2.....Done Bad PBR. I replaced the hard drive with an … |
| | So my girlfriends dell is falling apart. First her screen is dead (figuring that one out) Then she had this screaming noise going on (figuring that one out) But while trying to figure that out I took her harddrive out and put it into an external casing to isolate it … |
| | I have about 50 old JVS tapes that I want to copy to DVD's.. then make extra copies of the DVD's for relatives. I purchased a Toshiba DVD recorder and a package of DVD-R . One JVS tape was successfully copied to a DVD-R. The DVD-R played on the Toshiba … |
| | I’m not sure if this is a Hardware or Software problem. I apologize if I have posted this in the wrong forum. When I burn a CD from the music on my windows media player, the burned CD will only play on a computer! So that means my burner is … |
| | Though it burns CDs, When I try burning DVDs on my SONY DVD writer it gives a message- Burning failed- "Power callibration error" |
| | Crap, I spelled "advice" wrong. Won't be my first, nor last, error today. First, apologies for breaking the rules right off the bat. I don't have my notes or the dead Shiba at this house - I'm moving. I searched through the threads, and found some promising leads for download … |
| | Hey guys, uhh I have this error on my Toshiba Satellite A135-S4666 laptop and using Windows Vista Home Basic. I just recovered it with the recovery disk provided. I did a full disk recovery then when it finished I restarted my computer and it said "Missing Operating System". Anyone know … |
| | hi. i have a hard drive that had been working. today i opened it up and only saw 3 nonsensical files and all my files are gone. the drive indicator still says that the files are in there because the "free space" left is quite small. is there anyway i … |
| | I have a Dell that came with Raid 0 (I'm pretty sure) that had two 149g HD's. One just failed so I put a replacement in (500g as I couldn't find any 149gs). Bottom line is I want to install XP on the 500g to just run like normal on … |
| | HP Pavillion a1410n with Samsung SP 2004C HDD. Would like to make Seagate U6 ST380020A the master drive and Samsung the slave. Seagate jumpers set to master. Not familiar with slaving SATA drives, especially with non-SATA master. Please advise. |
| | The operating system and other software on the NAS unit provide the functionality of data storage, file systems, and access to files, and the management of these functionalities. The unit is not designed to carry out general-purpose computing tasks, although it may technically be possible to run other software on … |
| | hey i've got the same problem but i cannot see any of my two hard drives in computer managment ): has anybody got ideas? thx |
| | This is Robert with Hitech Assets and I am developing recycling partnerships. We have a full DOD wiping system and 200 employess. We are fully compliant and would love to talk to anyone that needs to clean out that I.T. storage closet or has a system migration going on. I … |
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