Month: July 2021

ST340015A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST340015A Seagate Barracuda 5400.1 40GB 5400RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…

Why 512 behaves worse than 4096 when NVMe configured with 512 sector size?

Question: I used Intel SSD data center tool to check my NVMe information, as shown below: – Intel Optane(TM) SSD DC P4800X FUKS7175003R375AGN -…Bootloader : EB3B0213DevicePath : /dev/nvme0n1DeviceStatus : HealthyFirmware…

Good quality & quiet 8-10TB HDD for steam library

Question: What’s a good manufacturer and model for a gaming HDD? I’m planning on buying a friend a 8-10TB 7200 RPM HDD, to pair w/ Intel optane cache, on a…

HDDs

Seagate ST340014A

ST340014A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST340014AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 40GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…

How do I mount a multi-disk Windows NTFS RAID/logical drive on Linux?

Question: I have two 500GB hard drives from an old Windows laptop at my workplace. My boss has asked me to copy the contents to the file server if possible,…

How Can i boot from another Drive without accessing the BIOS

Question: Hey Everyone,I got a weird situation, when i bought my laptop Acer N5, i upgraded the Storage by adding another 250SSD, and asked to make that as my boot…

HDDs

Seagate ST94813A

ST94813A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST94813AS Seagate Momentus 5400.2 40GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…

If I have “badblocks” write its output to a file, and that file is empty, does that mean that no bad blocks were found?

Question: I recently ran badblocks on a large server hard drive to check for possible issues (SMART reported that everything was fine, but I needed to be sure). The command…

Quick Question Regarding HDD Health