How do I clone a USB stick including partitions?
Question: I have several USB flash drives, and one of them has an installation of Ubuntu with several partitions. I want to make the other USB drives exactly the same…
Seagate ST3500418AS
ST3500418AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500418AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
4K sectors transition: Why are hard drives moving to 4096 byte sectors, vs. 512 byte sectors?
Question: I’ve noticed that some Western Digital hard drives are now sporting 4K sectors, that is, the sectors are larger: 4096 bytes vs. the long-standing standard of 512 bytes. ?So:…
Seagate ST3500414CS
ST3500414CS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500414CS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
btrfs: HUGE metadata allocated
Question: I have a 256GB SSD disk on which I converted my ext4 root FS to btrfs. I erased the ext4 backup subvolume, enabled compression and defragmented recursively to enable…
Seagate ST3500413AS
ST3500413AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500413AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
how long to zero a drive with dd?
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? How long will it take to zero fill 1TB (using dd dev/zero)? I’m actually doing two 500G drive simultaneously if it matters. Answer: It depends…
Seagate ST3500412AS
ST3500412AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500412AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is “Turn Off Windows write-cache buffer flushing” safe on a laptop?
Question: my laptop’s internal harddrive is a bit slow. I looked at the drive properties and there are two options: Enable write caching on the device Turn off windows write-cache…
Seagate ST3500411SV
ST3500411SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500411SV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…