What’s the jumper “enable 1.5GB PHY” on a Western Digital hard disk?
Question: I’ve got a new hard disk. On the label there is a description of the jumper settings: One of them is: ? Jumpered pins 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB…
Seagate ST9500421AS
ST9500421AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9500421AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Why does my hard drive LED light blink every second?
Question: The light blinks faintly about once a second. It is slowly driving me insane. How do I find out which program is causing this, so I can disable it?…
Seagate ST9500420AS
ST9500420AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9500420AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How does a hard drive know where the data starts?
Question:How do heads find the data stored on a hard disk drive? ?? ??(1 answer) ?? ???Closed 3 years ago. ? I was always wondering how a hard drive finds…
Seagate ST9500325AS
ST9500325AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9500325AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Start a ZFS RAIDZ zpool with two discs then add a third?
Question: Let’s say I have two 2TB HDDs and I want to start my first ZFS zpool. Is it possible to create a RAIDZ with just those two discs, giving…
Seagate ST9500320AS
ST9500320AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9500320AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What do the current, worst, and threshold SMART values mean?
Question: I have a 2TB internal hard drive that might be failing. It spends several minutes at 100% usage when I first turn it on since I installed Windows 10,…
Seagate ST500VT000
ST500VT000 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500VT000 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…