What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?
Question: Background My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually…
Samsung HM121HI
HM121HI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM121HI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Parted has no ‘resize’ command available
Question: I’m trying to resize a partition using parted, but it has no the ‘resize’ command available gchain@archbogchain@archbook:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.1Using /dev/sdbWelcome to GNU Parted! Type ‘help’…
Samsung HM120JI
HM120JI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM120JI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Why is my Windows 7 recovery folder 53% of my disk
Question: Windows 7 Pro – 64 bit OS – 340gb SSD drive I’m down to 9% available disk space and looking to stop the bleed and cure the affliction. I’ve…
Samsung HD154UI
HD154UI Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1.5TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD154UI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Using External Harddisk as an internal desktop SATA Harddisk
Question: I have a 2TB Western Digital MyBook Essential External Hard-disk. I wanted to use the Hard-disk as an internal hard-drive for my PC running Linux Mint. So, I dis-assembled…
Samsung SV8004H
SV8004H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV8004H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What kind of periodic maintenance should I carry out on HDD backup?
Question: I have a bunch of directories backed up on an external HDD – not an SSD, a magnetic disk. The backup is just onto a single disk (yes, I…
Samsung SP8004H
SP8004H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SP8004H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…