What is the tolerable magnetic field (in Tesla) for a hard disk?
Question: I was wondering what would be the safest magnetic field for a hard drive so that the data inside it is safe and not wiped off? For example I…
Seagate ST373307LC
ST373307LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 73.4GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST373307LC Seagate Cheetah 10K.6 73.4GB 10000RPM Ultra-320 SCSI 80-Pin 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Hard drives and types – what makes them so different?
Question: 7200 RPM Western Digital Blacks are designed to be faster than Western Digital Blues/Greens. They are the same speed, same cache, etc. What really makes them actually faster? Does…
Seagate ST336607LC
ST336607LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 37GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST336607LC Seagate Cheetah 36GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-320 SCSI Hot Pluggable 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low…
Is there a way for Windows 7 to show remaining disk space in the status bar?
Question: This is really driving me nuts. ?I do a lot of moving media files to and from USB drives, and I am constantly looking to the status bar to…
Seagate ST336807LC
ST336807LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 36GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST336807LC Seagate Cheetah 36GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-320 SCSI 8MB Cache 3.5-inch (1.0 inch) Hard…
combining SSD and hard disk in software RAID1?
Question: Does it make sense to build a Linux software RAID-1 (mirroring) using an SSD and a normal hard disk? I want to combine the advantages of SSD (fast transfer…
Seagate ST336706LC
ST336706LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 36.7GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST336706LC Seagate Cheetah 36.4GB 10000RPM Ultra-160-80-Pin SCSI 4MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch)…
How much does a gigabyte worth of data physically weigh on a hard disk?
Question: What is the physical weight of one gigabyte of memory/storage? Lets say this is on a hard disk. What is the weight associated with the atoms that are actually…
Seagate ST336607LW
ST336607LW Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 36.7GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST336607LW Seagate Cheetah 36.7GB 10000RPM Ultra-320 SCSI 8MB Cache 68-Pin 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…