How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size?
Question: How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size ? ? Answer: To find your hard drive’s model number: Method 1: Open the Device Manager in the…
Cooked HDDs
Question: So I was a victim of the classic wrong-PSU-cable and fried 3 HDDs with different situations: One 8 year old WD Black with SMOOTH chips burnt out and doesn’t…
Western Digital WD5001ABYS
WD5001ABYS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5001ABYS Western Digital Re2 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile…
Rescuing an encrypted hard drive
Question: A friend of mine asked me to encrypt the hard drive on his netbook (running Windows Vista) so I used TrueCrypt’s full-system encryption to do it. All is well.…
HDD uncorrectable sector count reset itself to 0
Question: Soooooo, this is very odd, my system just froze and I had to manually reset it, upon booting up I checked my HDD in case some more sectors had…
Western Digital WD5001AALS
WD5001AALS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5001AALS-00WTA0 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…
Beeping Hard Disk – Seagate 250GB Momentus 5400.6
Question: I have been trying to repair a laptop that simply beeps instead of booting. After taking it apart I have now realised that it is the hard disk beeping.…
Identify TVS Diode and Best Way to Test 2.5 SATA
Question: Hi there, Can anyone help me identify the TVS diode on my Hitachi 2.5 SATA PCB? And also tell me the best way to test it?Thank you in advance.…
Western Digital WD5000YS
WD5000YS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000YS Western Digital Caviar RAID Edition 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16 MB Cache…
What’s a normal copy speed between two internal hard disks?
Question: I have a PC with two internal SATA 7,200 RPM harddisks: one is a 1 TB Western Digital, and the other is 750 GB. I’m copying data between them,…