Q. i have a hard drive connected on my pc , and it makes noise
i want to shut it down but without unwire it please ?
can it be done?
i want to shut it down but without unwire it please ?
can it be done?
A. Justin, hard drive prices went up ever since the Malaysia floods hoax, you will have a hard time finding one for $50.
Just open the PC and unplug both the power and data cables from that hard drive. As mentioned above, you can only do this if said hard drive is your secondary, data storage drive. You cannot unplug your operating system hard drive.
And the C, E, F, recovery, etc in Windows are not necessary separate physical hard drive units, they can be just partitions of one and the same hard drive.
Just open the PC and unplug both the power and data cables from that hard drive. As mentioned above, you can only do this if said hard drive is your secondary, data storage drive. You cannot unplug your operating system hard drive.
And the C, E, F, recovery, etc in Windows are not necessary separate physical hard drive units, they can be just partitions of one and the same hard drive.
disaster recovery site for 5 servers?
Q. We have 5 servers holding mission critical application, and non accessible from the internet. Those 5 servers are physically located in the middle east.
We would like to create a Disaster recovery mechanism, so that If the 5 servers go down for some reason, 5 other servers will be up in some other location (in north america most probably).
If the Data we are talking about is 60/80 GBs, what would the best transport network be?
We simply can not use a public network like the internet. would you recommend a channel over the internet (like a VPN?)
or are there some types of networks that can do such a thing?
what Bandwidth should I be looking at?
Thanks a lot!
We would like to create a Disaster recovery mechanism, so that If the 5 servers go down for some reason, 5 other servers will be up in some other location (in north america most probably).
If the Data we are talking about is 60/80 GBs, what would the best transport network be?
We simply can not use a public network like the internet. would you recommend a channel over the internet (like a VPN?)
or are there some types of networks that can do such a thing?
what Bandwidth should I be looking at?
Thanks a lot!
A. Your best bet would be to call a hosting provider who does this all the time. Dedicated IP, and VPN, and all that are fine, we do the same thing here, but we have a huge pipe and its still an awful ping time (to Malaysia). Netapp has a great app too, try them or call Peak 10 headquarter in Charlotte NC, ask for Jeff dolan, and he can get you an engineer. They are a great help on this stuff because like I said they help people all the time. Netapp has a great appliance that caches data and only streams necessary information. Its very cool how it caches data
Has anybody taken apart a Seagate hard drive?
Q. I have valuable data that wasn't backed up when it failed. As you may already know, data recovery is very expen$ive!!!
Can someone who is very mechanically inclined swap the actual discs inside to another identical drive with any success? Is there options?
And, does anybody know where to find schematics for a 300GB barracuda drive?
FYI... Made in China = Failure : Made in Malaysia = No Failure
Please only reply with intimate information.
p.s. - I'm not looking for preachings about data redundancy ;)
Thanks
The failure:::
clicking sounds and of course no workie workie.
Can someone who is very mechanically inclined swap the actual discs inside to another identical drive with any success? Is there options?
And, does anybody know where to find schematics for a 300GB barracuda drive?
FYI... Made in China = Failure : Made in Malaysia = No Failure
Please only reply with intimate information.
p.s. - I'm not looking for preachings about data redundancy ;)
Thanks
The failure:::
clicking sounds and of course no workie workie.
A. I have taken apart many drives. It is a superior challenge to not damage the platters and takes intimate knowledge of how the drive is assembled rather than being mechanically inclined. There is no guarantee that they will work even if you can successfully replace the platters. This never worked for me.
Depending on the issue some tricks might work.
- Put the drive in the freezer for an hour or so, the try it.
- Give the drive a quick, sharp twist when it is starting
- Replace the controller board from the a good drive
- Tap the drive on its front edge when starting, light tap that is
Depending on the issue some tricks might work.
- Put the drive in the freezer for an hour or so, the try it.
- Give the drive a quick, sharp twist when it is starting
- Replace the controller board from the a good drive
- Tap the drive on its front edge when starting, light tap that is
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