Hybrid Hard Drives, how do they work?
Question: I was reading yesterday’s Jeff Atwood blog post on Revisiting SSD and I first heard about hybrid hard drives: a HD that has a small SSD portion (let’s say…
Seagate ST340215AS
ST340215AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST340215AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 40GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gbps 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Can’t create partition or locate existing one when installing windows 8.1
Question: I’m trying to install windows 8.1 and I’m getting this error message after I choose the hard drive to install the windows in we couldn’t create a new partition…
Seagate ST3402112AS
ST3402112AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3402112AS Seagate Barracuda 40GB 7200RPM SATA 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard…
Rebalance hard drives in a Storage Space Pool?
Question: I have 2x 1.5TB drives in a (two-way mirror storage pool). That pool recently hit 100% capacity meaning both drives had 0% space left. I added 2x 4TB drives…
Seagate ST940818SM
ST940818SM Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST940818SM Seagate EE25 ST940818SM 40 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA 5400 rpm 8…
SMART-status: reallocated_sector_ct FAILING_NOW
Question: On my HDD which I’ve put in my Synoglogy NAS DS207+ I see this SMART-status: Is there any way to fix or circumvent this issue? Is there any way…
Seagate ST940817SM
ST940817SM Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST940817SM Seagate EE25 40GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
2 identical PCs – can I swap a single hard drive between and expect Windows 7/XP to work?
Question: I currently work in 2 different locations, traveling between the 2 every few weeks or so. I currently have screens, kb, mouse etc… in both locations, so I just…
Seagate ST940814AS
ST940814AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST940814AS Seagate Momentus 5400.3 40GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…