Is it faster to have two smaller hard drives or one big one?
Question: Assuming that the drives all have the same RPM and overall same specs except for storage space, would it be faster to install two hard drives together or just…
Seagate ST3640323AS
ST3640323AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3640323AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3640323AS 640 GB Internal Hard Drive SATA/300 7200 rpm 32…
How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
Question: I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an “offline uncorrectable sector” appeared in the SMART status. 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ?0x0030 ?200 ?200 ?000 ?Old_age ?Offline…
Seagate ST9640423AS
ST9640423AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST9640423AS Seagate Momentus 640GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows?
Question: Can I enable AHCI after installing Windows 7 in a SATA drive that was on IDE mode? Answer: You need to make the msahci and/or IastorV drivers be loaded…
Seagate ST9640322AS
ST9640322AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST9640322AS Seagate 640GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
How to check if my eSATAp port provides 12V power?
Question: I have a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge 13″ model 0217-2QG with eSATAp port. How do i check if my port provides 12V power (enough to power a 3.5″ HDD)? Answer:…
Seagate ST9640320AS
ST9640320AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST9640320AS Seagate Momentus 640GB SATA 3GB/s 5400RPM 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Laptop Hard DriveS.…
Soldering a SATA-Data cable to a HDD
Question: I tried to clean my computer and accidentally ripped of the SATA cable from the HDD which resulted in a broken SATA data port because the “L” on the…
Seagate ST960813AS
ST960813AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST960813AS Seagate Momentus 60GB 5400RPM SERIAL ATA-150 (SATA) 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard DISK…