2008/8/4-10 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:50776 Activity:nil | 8/4 I went to Fry's for the first time in ages and was surprised to
see a 1T Seagate HD on sale. I'm still using my 250G and it's
only 60% full. What the heck do people put on their HD these
days, porn? I can't imagine why anyone would want to buy a
1T drive for personal use.
\_ HDTV.
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2007/5/17-19 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:46676 Activity:nil | 5/17 My new 750G Seagate HD shows only 698G available. WHAT THE FUCK??
\_ 750G = 750*10^9 bytes. Your OS is probably measuring in 2^30 bytes.
See GiB vs GB
\_ Also, disk drive manufacturers advertise "raw" storage, while
your O/S measures usable storage. You lose quite a bit to
disk label information, metadata and other various things.
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2006/7/17-19 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:43698 Activity:nil | 7/17 My western digital WD800UE 80gb 5400 RPM laptop HD sometimes
gives off a few "clicking" noise. Although this has been going
on for a while and I haven't run into any problems. Is this
the click of death? Should I be concerned? I am using it in an
external enclosure and had it shortly after I got it. (it
started to make that noise when I was trying to "disconnect
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2005/11/16-17 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:40609 Activity:kinda low | 11/15 [unrelated to politics] My debian machine at home (I'm learning and
tinkering) seems to spin the HD down occasionally. I'd like to never
spin down the HD (or at least control which hours it can). Any
pointers to doing this?
\_ # apt-get install hdparm
# hdparm -S 0 /dev/hda
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2005/5/12-13 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Languages/Misc] UID:37652 Activity:kinda low | 5/11 If you noticed that your laptop HD never rests because it's doing
something, and you've already killed all auxilary processes and made
drives not "Fast Indexable", it's the explorer that's funky. Here
is one solution. Kill explorer and then run it again. You can use
a batch file script:
taskkill -im explorer.exe /f
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2005/5/11-12 [Consumer/Audio, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37625 Activity:nil | 5/11 I'd like to be able to use my mp3 player as a rescue os disk as well.
It shows up as USB HD on most OS. The mp3 player itself works fine
as long as I store all of the music on the first vfat partition. I'd
like to be able to either install linux onto the HD or store various
ISO images on the HD and have it boot from it, with menu, so I can
can select different images. Anyone know of such method?
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2005/5/5-9 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37545 Activity:low | 5/5 I have a Hitachi/IBM Travelstar 80G HD that occasionally makes loud
clicking noise unrelated to head seek. Today while moving a 150M file
I started hearing that clicking noise again, and 1 min later my
computer freezes. I rebooted, tried copying other files and it's fine
and went back to the same file, and it freezes again. Help?
\_ Download the diagnostic from the http://hgst.com web site.
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2005/4/27-28 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37383 Activity:moderate | 4/27 I am seeking data backup suggestion for my wife's computer. We are
talking about 4G and we have about $400 to play with. A flash drive?
A standalone RAID box? A Zipdrive. What says the mighty motd?
-- ulysses
\_ If it's just 4G, then back it up to DVD. Plextor/TY media. -chiry
\_ We have found CDs and DVDs to be an unreliable means for
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2005/4/20-21 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37275 Activity:low | 4/19 I went to Fry's today and saw a 400GB HD by Seagate, with 5 years
warranty!!! That is just amazing. By the way, what is the current MB
limitation on size? I remember back in the 90s I had to get special
HD card to go above 4G, and then in the late 90s a special card to
go above 80G. I'm just wondering what the current limitation is.
\_ Why would there be a limitation? Granted, I always buy SCSI.
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2005/4/10-14 [Computer/HW/Drives] UID:37135 Activity:nil | 4/10 My iPod prefetches a few songs from the HD, buffers them into memory,
and then shuts down the HD to save power. If possible, how do I do the
same thing on my iTunes where I pre-declare non OS swapped mem so that
I can save power on my notebook? -ok thx
\_ <crickets chirping>
\_ This might work for you on OS X:
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2005/4/9-10 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/SW/Virus] UID:37130 Activity:high | 4/8 To save power I set my laptop to shut down HD after 1 min of
inactivity. However, my laptop always does something to the HD
and I know this because it keeps clicking and clicking. I've turned
off Norton Realtime Anti-Virus thing, Firefox/IE, MS Word, and
pretty much everything I can think of, but it just never turns off.
What could be causing this? BTW I have 1.5G of RAM and XP and
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2005/3/24 [Computer/HW/Laptop, Computer/HW/Memory] UID:36844 Activity:high | 3/23 I'm thinking about getting this laptop but the 60GB to 80GB upgrade
adds about $150, and the 256MB->512MB RAM adds another $150. Is there
any reason why I should do this, when I could potentially just buy a
100GB drive for $230, and likewise something similar with RAM?
\_ Tell us which notebook you want and maybe we can give advice.
E.g., the ThinkPad T42 has only one accessible memory slot,
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