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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
I guess I've been lucky with my Seagate's.
As I said my 8200 lasted 10 years before I switched HD's and the present one has been in it almost 5 years now. What about Western Digital? Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
I guess I've been lucky with my Seagate's
but at present I don't feel comfortable with buying one after looking at the reviews. There's no rush on this but its a shame that I can't get a quiet well made drive. btw, don't I have to switch back the drive to operational to make the safely remove function functional again? Thanks, Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
Mark Twain wrote:
I guess I've been lucky with my Seagate's but at present I don't feel comfortable with buying one after looking at the reviews. There's no rush on this but its a shame that I can't get a quiet well made drive. btw, don't I have to switch back the drive to operational to make the safely remove function functional again? Thanks, Robert You mean "Online" in Disk Management. You can do that, if the drive letter doesn't seem to show up. That would be your first hint it was still "Offline". ******* If I knew of the perfect hard drive, I'd have picked it out for you by now. Some of the drive failures, we can blame on handling (no bubble wrap when the drive is shipped), but I've seen evidence here, that some of the modern disk problems are actually "wearout". If the heads on the disk drive, stay within an area of the disk, that's the area which starts to show reallocation problems. And can be doing that, with no warning from SMART. SMART only works well, if the errors are uniformly spread all over the disk. And a wear pattern doesn't have to be spread all over the disk. I have bought one Seagate (3TB) as an "experiment" but it'll be a few years before I can comment on how things turned out. It doesn't have enough operating hours on it yet. You could shop for a WD drive, but you're going to need to see a comment in the reviews that it is "quiet". Historically, WD doesn't make quiet drives so you would want proof in the customer review comments, that they cannot hear the drive when it is running. Seagate comes pretty close to that. Paul |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
Since its not urgent I can wait on buying
another HD at this point but I appreciate you enlightening me. I went into Disk Management and everything looked OK but when trying to safely remove the Patriot key (which I had inserted) instead of my usual icon there was USB Safely Remove. Remember, that was because we couldn't get the computer to eject the Patriot key and we had to turn off the actual drive which finally released it? So do I wait the remaining days for USB Safely Remove and then it will revert back to its default? Thanks, Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
Mark Twain wrote:
Since its not urgent I can wait on buying another HD at this point but I appreciate you enlightening me. I went into Disk Management and everything looked OK but when trying to safely remove the Patriot key (which I had inserted) instead of my usual icon there was USB Safely Remove. Remember, that was because we couldn't get the computer to eject the Patriot key and we had to turn off the actual drive which finally released it? So do I wait the remaining days for USB Safely Remove and then it will revert back to its default? Thanks, Robert Look in Programs and Features and remove the trial version. Paul |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
I uninstalled it and then went to check
to see if my icon had returned and it hadn't. Or will it once I use a key? Thanks Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
Mark Twain wrote:
I uninstalled it and then went to check to see if my icon had returned and it hadn't. Or will it once I use a key? Thanks Robert The icon could be inside that "excess icons" icon. My Safely Remove usually hides in there. If you have the SATA controller using the AHCI driver, the C: drive is usually considered a candidate for Safe Removal. Only you cannot remove the C: drive of course. Because there will always be busy files on it. But the advantage of using the AHCI driver for SATA, is it helps keep the Safely Remove icon always available. On this machine, Safely Remove only appears when I plug in a USB key. Then the icon shows up. I don't use the AHCI driver on this machine, as from a performance point of view, it's useless. But if I wanted to see Safely Remove all the time, that's what I could do. The icon should also be manually start-able. https://askleo.com/safely_remove_har...re_without_it/ Start : Run : then_enter_the_command RunDll32.exe shell32.dll,Control_RunDLL hotplug.dll A simpler command to try, would be control hotplug.dll You can also do those from a (Run As Administator) command prompt (cmd.exe) window. I don't know what the icon will do, if there are no eject candidates present. HTH, Paul |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
I should have just tried it before
posting. The icon appeared and I was able to safely remove the Patriot key. So all is good. I forgot to ask you though is it OK to delete the Rescue.ISO file or should I keep it? In passing, the WD is a Western Digital? Thanks, Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
Mark Twain wrote:
I should have just tried it before posting. The icon appeared and I was able to safely remove the Patriot key. So all is good. I forgot to ask you though is it OK to delete the Rescue.ISO file or should I keep it? In passing, the WD is a Western Digital? Thanks, Robert You put the rescue.ISO on there for a reason. Perhaps you wanted to burn a CD on one of your two machines, and wanted to carry that file from one machine to the other ? If you've burned the CD, you don't need the file any more. The file is probably 200-300MB or so, a WinPE CD boot image. WD is short for Western Digital. You have a WD Black, and that's a drive made by Western Digital. The FDB motor is affixed at the top and bottom on that drive. Some other drives, only one end of the motor is fixed, and the other end floats in lubricant ot something. I expect in fact, that all drives have to shift to a stiffer motor design, because the amount of allowed bearing runout is extremely small now. (The drive has to track any wobbles in order to read the data. The voice coil can move the heads in real time if necessary.) You will see descriptive terms used to announce new technology used inside the drive, but the stuff is never explained. Only HGST (the IBM lab that Hitachi bought) used to post informative web pages about how modern hard drives work. and that's because the web pages formerly were written by IBM people, and when the lab was bought, the IBM people went with it. Nobody else in the industry bothered... As far as I know, WD acquired HGST, but HGST is still shipping "Hitachi" brand drives for things like the helium filled drives (6TB, $700 each). So while you can see a bunch of brand names on Newegg, from a corporate point of view there are few separate companies left. Paul |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
At present I'm set up OK but I think
down the line I'll have to select the 2TB Seagate because of the quiet that I would need. Not now though,.. As usual you've given great links and information. Many thanks, Happy Halloween, Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
I'll let you know when I have the
new HD and case by posting it on here just in case I need help walking me through setting it up like the WD. Thanks, Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
You know, I just went back and looked
at the reviews again and boy there sure are allot of negative reviews with DOA or sudden failures etc. Yet the flip side says they're great which is what I've experienced. It's literally 50/50. I wish I didn't have the noise issue otherwise the WD is just fine. Robert |
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Computer taking too long to connect to the Internet:
Mark Twain wrote:
I'll let you know when I have the new HD and case by posting it on here just in case I need help walking me through setting it up like the WD. Thanks, Robert Well, unlike an SSD, I expect this thing to work right away :-) Paul |
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