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How is it now-a-days with the WD GP drives, is it safe to buy one to use as non-raid (stand alone drive) or does they still have the Load Cycle Count problem (that the drive wear it self out). I currently got 8 EADS drives (WD10EADS) and two of them are the -M2B0 version, those two have i...

Greetings from Sweden! I came here instead since i know you guys at Hard knows much more about data storage than any other swedish forum, so perhaps hopefully someone could give me some answers what is happening with my harddrive. I will try to keep it as short as i can. August 2009 i bought a...

When buying a PSU, how can you check if it has OCP, does it say on the manurfactor site etc.?

Wow thanks for all the nice replys :) First of all Danny Bui, if i would considder use WHS and use that duplication thingie. I still need a extra pc with extra hdd's. The money spent on that extra pc and the extra hdds and the extra hdds for duplication i could even put on a RAID6 setup... One...

1TB is the stuff i realy care about So, how much space does WHS need for folder/file duplication for that kind of amount. My documents n images and stuff like that is not even 10GB so that could be on a USB drive. The stuff i want to backup is a "sorted out archive" wich would be verry sad if i...

And what if one drive fails? Yeah, there it is, right back were i started from. To ensure that my data still are there. If i use RAID5 i still have the safty if 1 drive fails. Instead of making a WHS i could still use my current setup, just single drives under Win XP, it wont make any...

I am not against a separate box, but i think its kinda unnessesary, would it be so much safer? I wont say i never think my PSU will kill it self but the chances are small on that imo... Are there any other solutions i can think on? Maybe we get a perfect solution and answer from my [H]-Guru...

Hey Hard! I am new here and i hope i will fit in with you other storage-geeks :) Currently i have 8TB on my PC, all single drives with no RAID etc. I have comed to a critical point in my life where i have decided i must do something before a hdd dies... i dont want to think about the...