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Hello, As a student I had quite a lot of trouble with my previous laptop's battery. It had an autonomy of 4h in the beginning, but one day, while it still had 50%, it suddenly dropped to zero for some reason, and after that incident the battery has never exceeded 50% charge again. So I had to...

Intel has released Link Removed of the SSD Toolbox, which includes a range of tools for managing the health and optimal performance of Intel Solid State Drives. Download: Link Removed

A question that has been bouncing around my head for years, is that when benchmarking any hard drive, it always produces the same general pattern...a gradually declining slope with regularly spaced dips across the entire slope. I just don't understand why those dips exist, because it doesn't...

I did a major rebuild last year which included Samsung 830 series 128Gb SSD as OS, apps and programs plus 1tb WD HDD as storage. Samsung Magician shows that AHCI is not enabled and suggests that this is slowing the PC. Device Manager shows IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers as; Intel(R) 7...

Not sure where to post this - also, since the forum doesn't allow double posting, IF I do post this in the wrong section please move it (admins, looking at you guys). So this is the deal: I have an 8GB iPod. iOS 6.0.1 (Not updated to 6.1, never) Capacity, 6.41GB (even though it advertises 8GB...

K.. so i got this problem for the the first time.. I had 2 partitions of my 500 GB Hard disc (408gb + 60Gb) in the 60 gb one. i installed ubuntu os couple of months back, and today i formated that partition, using HBCD. i formated that partition and deleted it and then i expanded my 408 gb...

I have formatted my Acer Aspire 5552 and Installed Windows 7. Previously, my ''main drive'' was my Local Disk (D: ) (450GB) and now it is Local disk (C: ) (20 GB) So there is no room for my programs, etc.. so how I swap them around? Have tried to save the programs on Local Disk (D: ) , but then...

Hello, This is a notification of planned network maintenance on February 27, 2012, 11:00PM to 3:00AM CST (5:00AM to 9:00AM CST) Summary of Maintenance: The goal of this maintenance window is to increase available bandwidth and improve our network capacity. During this process we will upgrade...

Fixes an issue in which the capacity of a Secure Digital (SD) card that is larger than 32 GB is calculated incorrectly. This issue affects computers that are running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. More...

The storage industry has recently introduced storage devices with capacities which exceed 2TB (2 trillion bytes). In order for a system to fully support capacities greater than 2TB, the device must be initialized using the GPT partitioning scheme to... More...

A man with a low IQ has been banned from having sex by a High Court judge after his local council claimed his ‘vigorous sex drive’ was inappropriate. The 41-year-old, known only as Alan, was in a relationship with a man and told officials ‘it would make me feel happy’ for it to continue...

My wife's relatively new Dell Studio 1569 is showing 2 drive letters. C & D. It has one 500GB hard drive that apparently arrived with a partition. C: drive has an allocation of only 58.5 GB and D: drive is showing 397GB. The C: drive is listed as OS and the D drive is listed as Local Disk. The...

This firmware update tool provides the latest firmware for the following Link Removed SSDs in all capacities: - Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8820 - Intel® X25-E SATA SSD on 50nm (black case) - updates to FW version 8850 - Intel® X25-M/X18-M SATA SSD...

The article covers Advantages of RAID, RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, RAID 10 or 1+0, RAID 5, Software vs. Hardware RAID and Drive Selection What is RAID?

Viking Modular's SATADIMM jacks an SSD into your memory slot -- Engadget Viking Modular Solutions, a division of Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and leading manufacturer of innovative DRAM modules and flash solutions, today announced that its SATADIMM is available for immediate customer...

I've been in the market for a new hard drive to replace my humble set of Seagate class 10, 7200rpm Sata300 drives, so recently after a look around I decided to put my money on the recent Cavier Black 1TB with it's huge 64mb cache and twin 500gig platters. I did consider the far cheaper similar...

Back in early May of this year, Mushkin Enhanced released a new line of SSD named "Callisto" after one of Jupiter's moons, to go along with their earlier IO series. The following review is from OverclockersClub.com: May 24, 2010 Introduction: Mushkin has been a very well known and...

Windows 7 ver 6.1 build 7600 shows windows updates available in the system tray but does not download/install any. It just hangs. Services.msc- Windows Update is set to Automatic. It was working but something obviously changed. Last successful UPDATE Was Optional on May 1, 2010. Important...

My first hard drive, entombed in a 1988 XT clone, stored 20 megabytes and clicked and chugged almost as much as my dad’s Buick. Back then, I worried about preserving 30KB text files. Now, I have to preserve, well, everything. Perhaps like you, I’ve lost count of how many terabytes of capacity I...

Hello! I just made a custom-clean installation of Windows 7 Ultimate 64x upon Windows Vista Home Premium 32bit and I want to ask the NORMAL disk space usage that Windows 7 OS requires! Supposed to have a 500Gb Hard Disk! However, in My Computer shows 465Gb total and after installing some...