HDD ROM chip replacement on PCB
Question: https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1194880300829986816 Answer:The second 8-pin chip is a FETky. There is no need to swap it. I would say that your drive may have a preamp failure. This chip is…
Western Digital WD5000KS
WD5000KS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000KS Western Digital Caviar SE16 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
Enable AAM on Western Digital Hard Drive
Question: I have a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm hard drive with unbearable seek noise! See Quiet Hard Drive suggestions. I have replaced the drive now, but don’t want…
PCB for Western Digital (rebranded HGST) 14 TB Drive
Question: I have a Western Digital 14 TB Drive, (model WD140EMFZ-11A0WA0) hard drive that I have managed to break off one of the pins on the data connector on the…
Western Digital WD5000AZRX
WD5000AZRX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AZRX Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB 5400RPM (intellipower) 64MB Cache SATA 6GB/s 3.5-inch…
How do I tell if my motherboard / disk drive support NCQ?
Question: How do I tell if my motherboard & disk drive support native command queueing? Is it in the device manager, or somewhere else? Windows has a checkbox for “Enable…
PCB swap help
Question: The sata connectors on one of my hard drives has got bent so I swapped the PCB from an identical board without knowing there was more to do than…
Western Digital WD5000AZLX
WD5000AZLX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AZLX-08K2TA0 Western Digital Blue 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Why can’t the last few sectors be included in a partition?
Question: When partitioning with fdisk the last few sectors cannot be included in a partition, as far as I have experienced. I always thought this is due to MiB- or…
Is my crucial mx500 ssd a scam?
Question: I got this ssd today. Isn’t a little bit to small? http://imgur.com/zEnVAhF Answer:The NW912 chip is a Micron MT29F512G08EEHAFJ4-3R:A. That’s a 512Gbit NAND flash memory, ie 64GiB. If there…