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I use sshfs on a daily basis and it works well for remote access. Only used it a couple times for backup purposes but I seem to remember having to use the "-o workaround=rename" option when mounting for rsync to work. Just a heads up.

Since it's possible for all the heads to be reading or writing simultaneously to all the platters I don't see a reason why less platters would be faster on average assuming all densities are equal between the theoretical drives. I think he was just giving quanttrade99z a nice big baloney...

There is nothing inherent in larger hard drives that would make one slower than a lower capacity drive. Since densities are usually higher on newer generation large hard drives the linear read/write speeds are often a little better than smaller capacity drives. If you look at maximum read...

Looks like you are right, I just assumed that since they released a review right when the new "core" series went on sale that this is what they would be reviewing. As for speed I had heard, like you, that the new ones would be slower (can't remember where though). But according to the OCZ...

Looks like they are 20-30% faster depending on the workload, going by this review.

It may be possible with Linux software raid under mdadm but I would not try such a thing with a generic motherboard raid controller if the data has any value since such an uncommon configuration will probably be poorly tested/supported.

Have you tried using a different mb bios (possibly one version earlier)? Also do you have any bus speed related values, including agp and pci, set to anything other than auto?

If it spins up, clicks 2-4 times, pauses, then tries again or spins down it usually means it is trying to read the system area to start up and it can't so it resets and tries again. The number of clicks depends on the drive family but this is what you would expect if the head crashed into the...

There shouldn't be anything you could write to the drive during normal use that would cause it to be undetectable by the bios. When booting it needs to read the "system area" of the disk to discover its attributes and load part of the firmware, but this is in a negative sector area and you...

I don't think it's common, I've memtested several dozen problem computers over the years and only seen it happen a couple times, and it very well could have been temperature related. A marginal problem that was only brought out when it got above a certain temp. Main reason I wanted to...

I'm curious about those myself, a few of the stores I have looked at said they were going to be in stock by mid-week, so hopefully we will get some reviews. The capacity/speed/price ratio of those compares to previous ssd makes them seem almost too good to be true, but of course all we have...

My first suggestion would be Memtest86+ but it sounds like you have already tried that. Depending on how long you let it run you may want to let it do several passes, like run it when you are going out for a while or going to sleep. I have seen a few instances where memory would be ok on the...

That is weird. When you say won't detect it, does it start up and get stuck for a while detecting drives, or does it just boot up at normal speed. Also when you start up and it can't see the drive, if you go in the bios and look at the device list does it show what it normally shows when...

I suppose if the platters in that particular drive are glass/ceramic you may be able to hit it hard enough with a sledge hammer or squeeze it in a vice to shatter the platters, though I have never tried that. If you want to securely destroy the data with as little effort as possible just use...

Most home routers don't do dns caching so they should be unaffected.