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. ST3300655SS Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 300GB 15000RPM SAS 3Gbps 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
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. ST3300555SS Seagate Cheetah T10 300GB 15000RPM SERIAL ATTACHED SCSI (SAS) 3GB/s 3.5-inch H. All…
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. ST3300656SS Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 300GB 15000RPM SAS 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
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. ST9300603SS Seagate Savvio 10K.3 300GB 10000RPM SAS 6.0Gbps 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
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. ST300MM0006 Seagate Savvio 10K.6 300GB 10000RPM SAS 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…