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SATA 3 hard drives

Do we have any SATA 3 (6GB/s) hard drives in the market for laptops. i tried searching in google shopping, but didnt find any.. Thanks! Srin
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How to measure data transfer speed between my internal SATA HDD and External USB HDD?

How to measure data transfer speed between my internal SATA HDD and External USB HDD? I purchased new Seegate freego USB HDD but when i copy somthing from internal HDD to USB HDD or viceversa data …
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Get block number / position of file on HDD (linux)

How can I retrieve the block number(s) of a certain file in a file system (the blocks the file is using on the harddisc)? I'm using the gentoo linux based SystemRescueCD, so I got plenty of tools …
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One partition of Hdd became unreadable now file system is raw…

And that partition has valuable data how to get that partition work again and how to get that data safely. HDD has 2 other partitions also and they are working fine. OS in Windows xp 32 bit. Whole …
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Disable HDD in BIOS

I have a computer with two HDDs, one of which is dead. Booting the computer takes forever because the OS continues trying to access the HDD for a while. Since I do not have physical access to the …
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D-Link DIR-685 and WD Scorpio Blue 1TB, 750GB, 640GB

Has anyone tried installing the WD Scorpio Blue 640gb, 750gb or 1TB 2.5" drives into the D-Link DIR-685? That drives a bit thicker than standard 2,5" HDD (12,5 mm instead of 9,5 mm) and I'm not sure …
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SATA Backward compatibility? [closed]

Possible Duplicate: Can I connect a SATA-II hard drive to a SATA-I connection? Hello everyone One of my system is really old, but I still use it, right now, the HDD is and old IDE drive …
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Internal slave HDD not detecting. how to recover data..

I have a Seagate Barracuda HDD that is set as a slave. Its within warranty. 5 days ago , the cabinet fell down from desk. The computer worked normally for 5 days. Today I could not detect the slave …
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Are USB thumb drives as vulnerable to memory loss and failure as HDD?

Are USB thumb drives as vulnerable to memory loss and failure as HDD? Ase they Solid State devices? What is their technology? Thanks.
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Free way to clone HDD to SSD?

Is there a free way to clone a full Windows 7 installation from HDD to SSD? (The free part is important, I know I can pay for Acronis True Image.) SSDs are usually much smaller than HDDs which …
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Disk operations freeze Debian

Hi, I have just installed Debian testing on my new desktop and I am not very happy with performance - when I perform a disk intensive operation, e.g. upgrade packages in the system, everything seems …
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Hard Drive won’t mount in OS X 10.5

So I have an internal 500GB Western Digital HDD, and it's formatted at NTFS, but it won't mount in OS X. Both Windows and Ubuntu Linux can read and write to it perfectly fine, but OS X says the file …
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What directories in a Windows 7 SSD install would you link/junction to an HDD?

I'm planning on installing an SSD/HDD combination with the SSD as my boot (Windows 7 x64) drive, and a spinning HDD as a storage drive. Are there any log files in particular best suited to a mklink …
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USB Hard drive diagnostic tool

Hi, I have a Freecom 500GB Toughdrive and I have a suspicion that something is wrong with it, because my PC sometimes does not find it and it sometimes makes clicking sounds. The drive itself is not …
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Which file system to choose from when formatting 1.5TB hard drive (hdd)

I plan to buy a 1.5TB hard drive soon. I would like to know which file system to choose from when I'm gonna format it. With FAT32, there is a limitation concerning the maximum file size (4GB) that …

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