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    New Seagate 750GB and 960 GB SATA drives

    Makes me wish I'd gone with something a little larger for my RAID array then 400GB. Well at least the price one those will just continue to drop. And a max of 2+ TB should still last me a while. And to think 13 years ago my first computer had a 160mb harddrive.
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    Data recovery program taking a month

    600 million blocks, not sectors, my mistake. I wish I could skip it. I know there's no reason it should be more then a few megs but for the last few weeks the number of files or folders found hasn't changed and it says the last file it found is thumbs.db
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    Data recovery program taking a month

    While transferring some data to our server I backed it up on to an external 250GB hard drive because the drive it was on was going to be added to a RAID array and needed to be formatted. At some point after the data was all copied over the drive got corrupted. I've had a similar drive for over a...
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    Anyone using a seperate computer for a media server?

    That's what my roomates and I have done. We moved all the media from our 4 computers onto a RAID 5 array on our server (currently 3 400GB RE2 drives, but we have online capacity expansion so we'll be adding another 1 or 2 soon) It's nice because as soon as I download a new TV, MP3, movie...
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    Dead Drive - Recovery Idea?

    Switching the PCB is pretty easy. You just have to find the same model, undo a few connections and some screws and swap 'em. My friends and I did it once, luckily we knew a repair guy at a local computer store that had the same model drive and was willing to let us swap the PCB so we could...
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    I/O error on external hard drive

    I think I've figured out the problem. Normally the recovery process seems to hang on file #345 but after and hour or so it moves on to #46 and after another hour or two #347. I think the fact that I was transferring multiples files at once caused a lot of frgmentation so in order to reconstruct...
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    I/O error on external hard drive

    My roomate and I decide to upgrade our server with a new TB RAID 5 array. I had 1 of the 400GB drives in my desktop for about a month until I could afford 2 more and the RAID card. I transferred the data from there on to my desktop and a 250GB external drive. Unfortunately both seem to have shit...
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    I need to recover deleted files on my hard drive. Could anyone recommend a program?

    Ontrack Easy Recovery. Excellent program, although definitely on the spendy side $500 for the standard edition and $95 for Lite. http://www.ontrack.com/easyrecoveryprofessional/
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    Western Digital Caviar RE2 WD4000YR Review at SR

    Well it looks like I made the right decision in deciding to build a RAID 5 array with these drives. Just got one right now in my desktop until the price drops a little. Then I'll get 2-3 more and a RAID card.
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    Looking to build a TB+ array for file storage

    Well my external 250GB drive just decided to take a shit on me. Luckily it looks like Ontrack can recover all of my data but I don't have anywhere to put it. So we've decided to start building the server a little early. Right now I've just ordered 1 WD Caviar RE2 WD4000YR 400GB...
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    Considering a Media Server (Need hard drive, controller and p/s suggestions)

    My roommate and I are doing the same thing basically. http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=961223 8 drive RAID 5 array with 400GB drives for a total of about 2.5TB formatted space. Just bought the first drive today because my external hard drive decided to get corrupted and I want to get...
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    SATA server hard drives? Need suggestions.

    400GB Western Digital Caviar RE2 16mb NCQ WD400YR Just bought one of these from zipzoomfly. $40 cheaper then newegg with shipping. It's eventually gonna be part of an 8 drive RAID 5 array. But right now the price break is at 300/320GB drives so I'm gonna wait a few months for prices to fall...
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    Lost power and now I can't access my backup drive

    I used Ontrack EasyRecovery and it looks like I'll be able to recover everything. I tested it by recovering one video and it looks like it worked perfectly. Now I just need to fine 230GB of hard drive space to recover everything too.
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    Lost power and now I can't access my backup drive

    Bump. Disk Management shows the drive as having 100% free space and a RAW file system. Is there any data recovery programs that might work? It took me a very long time to amass my collection of TV shows and the vast majority of them were on this drive. Of course this couldn't happen in...
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    Lost power and now I can't access my backup drive

    L:\ is not accessible. The request could not be performed because of an I/O device error. I just got this error when I tried to access my external hard drive. I moved it to my desktop (from my laptop) and I ge the same error just a different drive letter. I saw that there was a recall...
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