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  1. IsDanReally

    Another ?should I RAID?" post

    I?ve read all the should I RAID posts, but none of them seem to cater to my situation, so? In a month or two I?ll be building a new system for myself. It will be replacing not having a desktop for the last 6 years and an aging fileserver. Currently the file server is in a software RAID 5...
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    5 failed drives, all less than 1 year old!

    Have a computer that I put 3 Seagate 7200 RPM 250 GB drives into about a year ago. Starting 3 months ago, I've had each of the drives fail, and 2 of the replacement drives. Since they are all part of an array, no data was lost (and important data was backed up else where), but it is a bit of a...
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    Resume from Hibernate & normal boot - 5 minutes

    This perplexes me to no end. I have a Dell latitude D810 1.83 GHz Pentium M computer with 1 GB RAM. If I boot it normally, it takes 5 minutes before everything is done loading and responsive. Startup programs are all ones I want to leave: Google Desktop Search, Altiris, MSN Messenger, Toshiba...
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    Moved XP Raid-5 disks now all show as failed

    I have a media server that I wanted to format the boot drive on. The computer was running Windows 2003 and had 3 other drives made into a raid-5 using the dynamic volumes feature in Windows. After formatting the boot drive and then installing Windows XP Pro or Windows XP MCE, all the drives...
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    Internet connectivity partial vanishing in XP?

    I've been having a most puzzling issue the last few weeks. My computer (XP 1900+, EPOX 8KHA, XP pro) looses the ability to use the internet in a most strange way. Everything will work fine for almost 10 hours or so, and then things start to go hay wire. The first hint that things are going...