Hard drive issues – SpinRite vs. S.M.A.R.T
Question: The Toshiba hard drive in a Sony VAIO laptop went bad. I put in a Western Digital drive (WD1600BEVS-60RST0, firmware v4.01G04) from an HP laptop. I ran SpinRite at…
Seagate ST3300655SS
ST3300655SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3300655SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Making sense of the 2TB MBR partition limit
Question: The MBR partition table supports a “partition size” of 4,294,967,295 sectors. Assuming the standard 512-byte sector, this translates to a total limit of ?2,199,023,255,040 bytes = 2TiB, or just…
Seagate ST3300555SS
ST3300555SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3300555SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
ExpressCache vs. Intel’s Rapid Storage and Smart Response Technologies
Question: What is the difference between Samsung’s ExpressCache Technology and Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology? From the very little I understand about computer hardware, it seems that they both use a…
Seagate ST3300656SS
ST3300656SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3300656SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is it adviseable to stack internal hard disk over each other (after removing them from the casing)
Question: Would it damage or cause any interference to the non-operational (whereby electricity or power is removed or disconnected from the hard disk and it will be store inside a…
Seagate ST9300603SS
ST9300603SS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST9300603SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Why does Windows Defragmenter do nearly nothing on a disk with 23% empty space?
Question: While trying to defragment a 80 GB NTFS (4 KB cluster size) volume on Windows XP, I encountered a strange problem: the defragmentation process is very quick, but also…
Seagate ST300MM0006
ST300MM0006 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST300MM0006 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…