Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep?
Question: Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep Windows 7? Is the disk powered off when the computer successfully have entered sleep mode? This is not my…
Seagate ST9160418ASG
ST9160418ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160418ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
GParted moving partition from beginning of disk to the end of a disk?
Question: Straight forward, as the title says but, I’ve never moved a partition with GParted and I’m concerned that I will damage the drive. ?I have a screen shot. I’m…
Seagate ST9160414ASG
ST9160414ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160414ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is it possible to set the logical sector size of a USB hard disk drive?
Question: I have two supposedly identical 3TB Western Digital USB hard disk drives. One contains nearly the full 3TB of data. I want the other to be a backup of…
Seagate ST9160412AS
ST9160412AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160412AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How to *quickly* get a list of files that have bad sectors/blocks/clusters/whatever?
Question: My wife’s Windows 7 (64-bit) box has suddenly developed a SMART “disk is bad” status. ?I’m attempting to copy everything off (no admonishments about lacking a backup regimen, please,…
Seagate ST9160411AS
ST9160411AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160411AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is SATA bandwith per Port or per Controller?
Question: I always assumed that it was per Controller channel, and that If I have 4xSATA 3.0Gb/s ports on my Motherboard then I should have a potential 12.0Gb/s of bandwidth.…
Seagate ST9160319AS
ST9160319AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160319AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…