I'm glad your guy got it all back together but I'm concerned that your
320GB drive sounds like a helicopter. I think it should be nearly
silent. I'm not impressed by the super defragger and I don't think the
guy understands the fragility of CDs for long term storage nor the data
management problem for large amounts of data.
Chuck Norcutt
Brian Swale wrote:
> You've all been sick to death with hearing about my hard-drive space
> problems etc.
>
> As far as I can tell they have now been solved for the foreseeable future. :-)
>
> I had a 40 GB seagate HDD in my Acer computer which, as far as I could
> tell, was unable to recognise HDD space exceeding 137GB.
>
> So, on the strength of advice from Chuck, I obtained a card from Newegg
> which got around that problem and would allow me to add external drives of
> 1 TB etc.
>
> I bought a 2nd hand 80 GB drive which I was going to fit inside the case.
>
> In the end, I was so confused by all the instructions I could find on the
> internet, and which came with the card, that I decided to take it to the
> computer technician I have been using for at least 15 years.
>
> The first thing he said, once the introductories were over, was that the
> motherboard did not have the 137gb limit, and to prove that assertion, he
> disconnected my hdd and plugged in a 500BG Hitachi drive he used in his
> work for data transfer - and guess what? The computer "saw" all 500 GB.
>
> Hmmm.
>
> I told him I was beginning to have reservations about the reliability of the
> 40
> GB Seagate drive that has been on this machine since time began. He took
> one look at it, and listened to it, and agreed with me. Apparently this
> batch
> of Seagate drives came from a set that Seagate bought from Maxtor; a set
> that was So BAD that it sent Maxtor to the wall, and re-sold them. Including
> on my machine.
>
> While my machine does have two drive bays, they are too close together
> and HDDs in those adjoining bays would get too hot, and die early, as a
> result of the over-heating.
>
> So he sold me ONE new 320 GB drive, and using Ghost, transferred the
> 40GB data to the 320 GB drive.
> He then used an expensive de-fragmentation program to totally defragment
> the data-set on the new drive so that no fragmentation exists. Not a half-
> baked defrag like what Windows does.
>
> He installed the NewEgg ( Rosewill Taiwan RC-221 eSATA-150 Raid card)
> with two external ports - PCI adapter. I didn't need all the stuff that
> Rosewill
> included on their CDROM since Windows XP update 3 (which my machine
> fortuitously has) recognised it already.
>
> Next was the matter of the A-Data flash drives which contained 15 GB of my
> photos, all neatly in subdirectories. I had two copies of these and one had
> already become slightly corrupted. He has managed to copy all of the good
> flash drive to my new HDD. Had things been difficult, he had recourse to
> $5,000 data recovery program he has bought.
>
> So now this machine can flea or fly or whatever. :-)
>
> The new drive cost me $NZ 134, and he charged only $80 (one hour)
> labour. I think he undercharged me.
>
> The only downside so far is that the new HDD sounds a bit like a distant
> helicopter. I guess I'll get used to that.
>
> And I can still add a 1TB external drive.
>
> He was very concerned about the idea of using hdd's as long-term storage.
>
> He didn't think that was a good idea at all.
>
> He keeps his extensive archive of driver programs etc in a set of CDROMs
> housed in two electric "carousels" rather like Kodak slide projector
> carousels; all totally enclosed, and with their own indexing and searching
> ability.
> I told him about you guys with back-up drives in concrete bunkers separate
> from the house and fired up only once a month ...
>
> Brian Swale.
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