Hard drive clicking for 16 times during startup
Question: Sometimes when I boot my laptop the hard drive makes a clicking sound (every time 16 times), ?Windows does not start and I am stuck on the boot screen…
Seagate ST98823AS
ST98823AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST98823AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Are 3.5 inch SSD drives available? Why so many 2.5inch versions?
Question: I want an SSD SATAIII because to me it represents the best combination of quietest & fastest. But there doesn’t seem to be much choice relative to 2.5″ variants…
Seagate ST980817AS
ST980817AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980817AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Quickest way to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions for repartitioning in Linux?
Question: I want to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions and data, so I can repartition it (this is not for security purposes). I’ve looked at sudo dd…
Seagate ST980816AS
ST980816AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980816AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Why are my hard drives failing?
Question: I have a small Ubuntu server running at home, with 2 hard drives. There are two software raids (raid1) on the disks, managed by mdadm,which I believe is irrelevant,…
Seagate ST980814AS
ST980814AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980814AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is it possible to format a hard-drive too often?
Question: Every couple of months I find my computer becomes sluggish, so I format the hard drive then reinstall Windows to keep it running fast. I’ve been doing this for…
Seagate ST980813AS
ST980813AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980813AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…