What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive?
Question: I’ve seen programs in the past that were able to check the SMART status of a hard disk drive but it wasn’t easy for me to find. Also, I…
Seagate ST980811AS
ST980811AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980811AS Seagate Momentus 80GB 5400RPM SERIAL ATA-150 (SATA) 2.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal Laptop HA.…
Are partitions to the inner/outer edge significantly faster
Question: Some linux dual/multi-boot tutorials / general partitioning tutorials say that the inner side of a hard disk is faster than the outer side so partitions towards the outside tend…
Seagate ST980412AS
ST980412AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980412AS Seagate Momentus 7200.4 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
How to limit HDD write speed for chosen programs
Question: My HDD is slow 5400RPM and when working with 10GB size files it is impossible to use the computer until that big file finish re-creating a new copy/muxing/writing/etc. depends…
Seagate ST980411AS
ST980411AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980411AS Seagate Momentus 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
Immediately spin down a HDD on Windows
Question: I have 2 non-system SATA HDDs which are not mapped to a dir and normally kept ‘offline’ on my Windows 7 OS. Even this way they spin up from…
Seagate ST980310AS
ST980310AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980310AS Seagate 80GB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Can a mirrored (RAID-1) disk be plugged into another system to be read?
Question: If I have disks in a RAID-1 array, can I take one of them out and plug it into a different system to be read? This means, on the…
Seagate STSHD753LJ
STSHD753LJ Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. Seagate STSHD753LJ 750GB 7.2K SATA-II 3.5″ 32MB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…