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I can't figure out which is better for an 8GB drive I have that I want to put some portable apps on. In order for me to see an option to format to NTFS I have to go into device manager and in the hardware properties set the drive to be optimized for performance instead of for quick removal. I'd...

I keep hearing that RAID is not a backup solution. I understand the reason this statement is often repeated is because even if you're running Raid 1 if you accidently delete something or something gets infected with a virus then the same is happening to the other mirrored drive. But how then is...

While I'm no expert on the yet to be released next gen chipset config from Intel (so please politely correct any mistakes or misconceptions I may have) many have been followig the details of nehalem as they leak out. I understand the major idea is to rethink many of the subsystems, their...

I have a Dell 4600C (P4 3.2GHZ, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, DVD-R DL drive, GeForce 6200) that's not being used really. I looked on ebay to see what people would pay for it but it's so little it's not even worth selling at this point. I know a lot of people turn their older PC's into file servers and...

For the past 2 months I've been setting up a new laboratory. It has a number of robotics in it and naturally the are controlled by computers. Off the top of my head I'd say there are 12 computers in the lab. Some have been up and running for some time now while others were just hooked up in the...

I'm torn between getting a slim mATX tower that would limit me to low profile cards or whether to get a tower that does standard cards. I don't play games really so I don't need some huge double wide/extra long graphics card but I do consider video decoding on a video card a pretty valuable...

so intel shrinks the size of their CPUs, and have for quite some time. Why hasn't the standard (ATX) mobo shrunk as well? It seems there has been little effort to shrink the chipset components including things like the size of slots like those for RAM, the south/north bridges, and especially...

Get ready to laugh at me... Believe it or not, my current/only computer is an old Dell 4600C (it's a low-profile case w/ the notebook drive, etc) with P4 in it. I've been out of school for awhile but I've simply had so many higher priority expenses and debt that I simply can't afford much of...

I have a small form factor computer and it can hold either one 3.5" HDD or two 2.5" HDD's. Any idea which would provide a higher level of performance between a 3.5" 7200 RPM HDD connected to the mobo vs two upper tier 5400 rpm 2.5" drives in raid 0? Are there any comparisons of this type...

Ok, I know it stands for something along the lines of Just a Bunch of Disks... I was looking at a dual bay external enclosure that allows Raid 0, 1, or JBOD. Does JBOD mean that the two drives would be seen as a single "virtual drive" or simply 2 completely separate drives with their own drive...

While reading the review of the 1TB Samsung F series drive at Tomshardware I noticed that it mentioned the Samsung platter was thicker than most platters. The reason it was mentioned was to explain why Samsung hasn't made a 4 or 5 platter HD >1TB. Here's the excerpt...

I have a computer stuffed with tons of video and music. Off the top of my head it contains videos ranging from >30GB 1080i mpg and .ts files, 720P mpg and .ts files, XviD files of varying sizes (mostly DVD rips), some DivX (also mostly DVD rips), h.264/x.264/Nero Digital AVC files of resolutions...

I hate to be long winded but I feel I must give some background info to better convey my situation. First, while I'm really not a gamer in any sense of the word, I do like quality components. For instance, I'd certainly pay the money for a high quality graphics card not so much for the gaming...

Anyone know is laptops will likely begin including an eSATA port in the near future. I don't mean huge, desktop replacement style laptops but normal to mobile sized laptops? I ask because this will likely influence an external HD purchase I'm about to make. Also, how does gigabit ethernet...

Let me give yall my situation: I live in an apartment complex. I get my internet service via a cable modem which is connected to a 4 port 10/100 wireless a/b/g router (running dd-wrt as the OS, if that matters). I have two computers and a slingbox connected via wires to this router (I have the...