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    Best External HDD?

    Okay so I currently have a Seagate 500gb FreeAgent that I bought ~ 3 years ago. Its been working great but I kinda feel its on its way out so I want to replace it before that happens. Ive looked at new FreeAgents but Ive been seeing bad reviews bc apparently they arent as reliable as they used...
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    Need help formatting hard drive to Fat32

    I have a 500gb external hard drive that I need to format to FAT32. I cant do it in Vista bc its too large. How would I go about doing this?
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    16mb cache vs 8mb cache

    Im going to get a new hard drive and have decided on a Seagate 400gb one. The thing is Ive found 2, 1 8mb cache and the other with 16mb, but the difference in price is about 20 bucks. Is it worth the exxtra money to get the 16mb or will I be fine with just 8?
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    Need Help finding a good SATA card

    Im going to be getting an eSATA hard drive and need help finding a good SATA card worth a good price for my PC. It has to be PCI. Can anyone recommend me one or direct me to a good site? Im really not sure what Im looking for
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    Western Digital MyBook vs Seagate Free Agent

    Im looking at getting a 500gb external eSATA hard drive within the next week. BB has the Seagate one on sale this week for $159.99 and next week the MyBook for $149.99. Anyone have some advice on which one to pick up? Its only a 10 dollar difference and wont factor into my decision. Anyone have...
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    eSata vs Firewire external Harddrive

    BestBuy currently has the eSATA version of their 500gb MyBook on sale and I was wondering if it was worth picking up over the version with just the firewire and USB 2.0 I'd of course have to get a card for my PC to support it, but is the speed really noticeable between firewire and eSATA?
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    Need help/advice with an HP issue

    Okay here's my issue. I bought an HP PC in November. It started giving me problems and after weeks of trying to fix it myself, I decided to just ship it to them to repair since I was covered under warranty. The packing instructions said to leave any additional hardware added to the PC inside bc...
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    Help, My PC keeps restarting

    I bought a new PC about a month and a half ago (an HP pavilion a1640n) and last weekend I tried to add an old hard drive to it. I tried using one of those IDE to SATA converters bc my old drive was IDE and the motherboard only accepts SATA. The device didnt work, as the PC didnt recognize it, so...