Posts by Kramy

Unreal. I was not expecting another one so soon! I just drained my account to get the SuperShippingSaver thing, so I probably shouldn't spend more this week... *sigh*.

All my RMA'd Seagates died again... a few times. I don't trust their refurb drives. All my RMA'D WD drives (except one) came back brand new. (Manufactured less than 3 weeks prior.) WD does seem "safer". I got a Seagate 3TB incredibly...

Quote:Originally Posted by Graliz Hello. Please help me. I just got my new laptop Asus N56VZ. I installed WIndows 7 OS Did you install AHCI drivers? Chipset...

Quote:Originally Posted by carajean Ok a friend suggested I use samsung magician. I used the SMART check on that program and the ECC error report says FAIL. Im not exactly sure what that means if anything at all.Not a thing. Most of...

Heh... if I had known the floods would happen, I would've picked up a bunch in 2010 when they dropped to $119.99... Now $149.99+ looks like a good deal. That shows how good our memories are!

What's your laptop? Is the 8GB some sort of SSD caching, or are you referring to the Momentus XT's cache? The cache is invisible to your OS - it's used internally by the drive to cache frequently used LBAs (Sectors) - that means it's OS...

If you've got another drive to backup onto, you could try zero-filling it. That might help it limp along by temporarily refreshing some of the bad sectors. 65526? That's a weird number. 65536 or 65535 is 0xFFFF. I'd normally lean...

All the results look fine. There's a reason everyone has been talking about SSDs and their 4K performance. Desktop HDDs have seek times that are around 10ms (at best as low as 5ms, at worst as high as 30ms), letting them do maybe 30-200...

Should work fine. Unless you've got a really early EARS (which had lower sequential speeds and higher access times), they should match up quite nicely.If you want to make sure before sticking them in RAID, you can benchmark them with...

Quote:Originally Posted by Tacoboy Personally I like doing a clean install on the new boot drive. To me it seem to make everything work a little more snappy.Oh, definitely. But I'd probably go further and buy an SSD to really...