Recent content by Phillip Chapman

Thanks for the confirmation. That’s what I suspected. So currently, I’ll probably have this arrangement: WD Raptor 74 gb (Boot disk, SATA1 on motherboard) WD Cavier Black 1 tb (SATA2 on PCI card) WD Cavier Black 1 tb (SATA2 on PCI card) WD Cavier Green 1 tb (SATA1 on motherboard) Probably in...

I have an HP xw8200 Workstation that’s several years old. It appears to have two SATA1 ports on the motherboard. I need to add a minimum of two more SATA2 ports with a PCI-Express card. I plan on installing four internal hard drives in the system. My question is if I’m running SATA2 hard drives...

After some more experimentation, the drive snapped right into place and both the old and new drives are recognized in the system. The old one is still reporting SMART errors, but thankfully they are both now visible in BIOS and able to be formatted.

I'm helping a relative replace a hard drive in a Satellite A215-S7437. The original drive that came with the computer (Toshiba MK2035GSS) was giving off SMART errors after the recovery disks were also reporting errors during the format/recovery install. Here are the specs listed on the Toshiba...