Trying to remove/diagnose single Current_Pending_Sector in S.M.A.R.T. data
Question: I’m in a process of doing a fresh Linux install and before I went to do that I thought that it is a good time to verify HDD health…
Samsung HD252HJ
HD252HJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD252HJ Samsung Spinpoint F1 HD252HJ 250 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/300 7200 rpm…
Should I store my code/projects on my SSD or my secondary drive?
Question: I just got a new box. It has an SSD for the primary drive and a 1TB SATA hard disk for the secondary drive. ? I’m going to run…
Samsung HD251HJ
HD251HJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD251HJ/D Samsung SpinPoint 250GB 7200RPM SATA II 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
What do the different colours of the SATA ports on my motherboard mean?
Question: I’ve bought a new hard drive for my system, and my motherboard (an ASUS M2A VM HDMI) appears to have two black and two red SATA ports, with the…
Samsung SP2514N
SP2514N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. SP2514N Samsung 250GB 7200RPM ATA-133 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…
Internal hard drives showing as removable in Windows 10
Question: My internal drives are showing for some reason as removable in windows (one is SSD and the other is an HDD) in Windows 10 Pro. I read somewhere this…
Samsung SP2504C
SP2504C Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. SP2504C/D Samsung SpinPoint 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…
How to increase the disk cache of Windows 7
Question: Under Windows 7 (64 bit), I’m reading through 9000 moderately sized files. ?In total, there is more than 200 MB of data. ?Using Java (JDK 1.6.21) I’m iterating over…
Samsung HD250HJ
HD250HJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD250HJ Samsung 250GB Spinpoint S250 SATA 3Gbps 7200RPM 3.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal Hard Drive.…