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. All information about the Seagate ST340215AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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. All information about the Seagate ST3402112AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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. All information about the Seagate ST940818SM hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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. All information about the Seagate ST940817SM hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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. All information about the Seagate ST940814AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…