What happens when an SSD wears out?
Question: Since SSDs are still fairly new, there isn’t a history of posts saying “I reached my writes limit on 10% of my SSD… �C and here is what happened…
Samsung HM080II
HM080II Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM080II Samsung Spinpoint M60S 80GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
How to prevent bad sectors?
Question: I used to have bad sectors on my SSD about one month ago. I had fixed them through performing one level of zero formatting. However, after few days, when…
Samsung HM080HI
HM080HI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM080HI Samsung Spinpoint M80 HM080HI 80 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/150 5400 rpm…
How much power does a hard drive use?
Question: This is not as straight forward as it sounds. Specs from Western Digital’s site for a WD 3TB Green Drive: Read/Write 6.00 Watts Idle 5.50 Watts Looks fine right?…
Samsung HM080GI
HM080GI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM080GI Samsung Spinpoint HM080GI 80 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/150 5400 rpm 8…
Why is my computer really slow despite having a considerable amount of free memory?
Question: I have a Lenovo g560 3-4 years old, Intel i5, with 2GB ram and with a Geforce 310M. It always had some issues during startup or when starting a…
Samsung HE753LJ
HE753LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. HE753LJ Samsung 750GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Samsung…
How do I determine what file occupies a given sector?
Question: I have a hard drive with 3 bad sectors. I know the sector numbers and the computer can still boot into Windows. I want to run sector repair from…
Samsung HD753LJ
HD753LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD753LJ Samsung SpinPoint F1 Desktop Class 750GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…