When a disk read or disk write occurs, where does the data go?
Question: I understand that there is such a thing as a disk controller which contains a buffer, but was wondering if the CPU reads directly from this buffer, or whether…
Seagate ST2000VX008
ST2000VX008 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST2000VX008 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How does a hard drive retain information after being formatted?
Question: Companies try to zero-fill their hard drives several times when they decommission them, why? Surely one pass of zero-fill would do the job exactly as they need. I understand…
Seagate ST2000VX003
ST2000VX003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST2000VX003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Imaging new hard drive in Windows 7 laptop?
Question: I’m upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive. How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that…
Seagate ST2000VX002
ST2000VX002 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST2000VX002 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is my hard drive dying?
Question: Im gettings strange error messages in the terminal. This is the output of dmesg: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x78 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface…
Seagate ST2000VX000
ST2000VX000 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST2000VX000 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Newly formatted (NTFS) external hard drive already has ‘Used space’. What determines the used space’s amount? Is it correlated to the HD’s capacity?
Question: I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements – 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick…
Seagate ST2000VN004
ST2000VN004 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST2000VN004 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…