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Hello, i am creating new PC i am confuse with hard drive selection i have two option to chose from please help me which is better ? (1) from WD with SATA III with 16 mb cache (2) from wd with SATA II with 32mb cache below is my configuration Intel core i5 2320 Intel DZ68DB mother board 16gb corsair DDR3 1333 ASUS DVD writer Cache is more important than SATA connection with regards to HDDs.…

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HDD to HDD Internal Transfer Rates

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago06 mins

Only recently though, have I seen this problem really metastasize; reduced transfer rates during multiple HDD to HDD file transfers. First of all, I understand that sending files “single-stream” from one HDD to another in a single transfer allows for the most direct Read/Write instance, and thus the fastest rates, and that queuing multiple transfers slows that down because the drives are having to do a lot more platter skating, but what I have a hard time understanding is where is ALL that bandwidth overhead going?…

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Hard Drive Wipe Tool: Active KillDisk

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago05 mins

Anyone know of any program that will completely wipe a hard drive and make files unrecoverable? I have 3 comp from work I have to do this to, and need some info on a good program to do it with. Thanks Active@ KillDisk: Powerful and compact software that allows you to destroy all data on hard disks, USB drives and floppy disks completely, excluding any possibility of future recovery of deleted files and folders.…

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How to install a hard drive

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago01 mins

I just installed a SSD w/ windows 7 and I scraped a hard drive from my old computer and removed partitions and it works perfectly because windows could see it when It asked where I wanted to download windows to. The problem now is that I have a 500gb hard drive plugged in that I can see in my bios set up.…

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Install Old Boot Hard Drive in New Computer

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I have a computer running Vista, with a single hard drive (multiple partitions, one with the operating system, the others for applications, data, etc.). I just bought a new computer, and am going to install Windows 7 on it. I want to put the OLD drive in the new computer so I can just copy all my files and data over.…

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Hard Drive Compatible

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago03 mins

I’m reinstating a very old computer I once used back in the days as use for a spare computer and I’m in need of a new hard drive. I was wondering if all SATA hard drives are compatible with my computer since I consider myself barely computer savvy.…

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SATA Hot Swap Drive Bay Stopped Working

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago01 mins

A few months back my boot drive died on me. I got another drive, reinstalled XP and off I went again. Well, I have a SATA hot swap drive bay. Before the crash it worked fine. I don’t remember ever installing any driver or utility for it when I first installed it (when I originally built the system).…

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SATA Cables

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago01 mins

A hard drive (3.0 Gb/s) I have recently bought just came, without a SATA cable. I have a 6.0 Gb/s capable SATA cable sitting around. Are these 6.0 Gb/s cables backwards compatible? If I use it, would I have to plug it into the 6.0 enabled port on the mobo or can I just use the normal SATA ports?…

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Replace Primary Master Hard Disk with Primary Slave

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago11 years ago02 mins

I have a desktop computer with following specs : 2.93 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo Board: ASUSTeK P5QPL-AM Rev X.0x 266 megahertz BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 0408 Intel(R) ICH7 Family Ultra ATA Storage Controllers – 27DF Intel(R) N10/ICH7 Family Serial ATA Storage Controller – 27C0 Primary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x) Secondary IDE Channel [Controller] (2x) I recently purchased a 160 gig HD and used it as the Slave disk.…

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Change From RAID 0 to RAID 1

DATARECOVERYUNION.COM12 years ago3 years ago01 mins

I am puchacing a new computer that is configured for raid 0. I would like to reconfigure it for raid 1. I prefer to reinstall win 7 to get rid of the junk new machines are shipped with so OS reinstallation is not a problem.…