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Question: Background: I got some malware in Windows, possibly a rootkit or bootkit. I didn’t want to take any chances, so foolishly wiped my drive with DBAN (PRNG, 8 pass).…
ST3160815SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160815SV Seagate 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
Question: I carry my external hard drive around with me sometimes, and was wondering if there was a way to password protect the entire drive, with no hassles or anything,…
ST3160811AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160811AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Question: I want to estimate the health and the remaining lifetime of my hard drive using SMART (in my case gsmartcontrol). However I don’t know how to interpret the attributes.…
ST3160318AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160318AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Question: There is something I don’t quite understand. I know a SSD helps with OS load times, but I’m not sure if all this boost is only noticeable/interesting when booting,…
ST3160316AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160316AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Disk Drive.…
Question: I am running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire M7720 with three internal SATA drives; drive #2 and #3 are on a removable HDD rack. Drive #3 (on the…
ST3160215SCE Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160215SCE Seagate DB35 Series 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s Internal 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…