Clone only space in use from hard disk
Question: Can I use dd, rsync, clonezilla or any tool to clone only space in use in my hard disk in Linux? I need to do a backup from a…
Samsung SP0842N
SP0842N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SP0842N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How to prolong the life of an external hard drive?
Question: In ten years, across several different machines, different companies, and different operating systems I’ve noticed a trend that external hard drives die long before their internal counterparts. Everyone I’ve…
Samsung SP0822N
SP0822N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SP0822N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Why is gzip slow despite CPU and hard drive performance not being maxed out?
Question: I have some JSON files, 20 GB each, that I want to compress with gzip: gzip file1.json This takes up one full CPU core, all fine. It processes around…
Samsung SP0802N
SP0802N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SP0802N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is it safe to resize Windows partition with GParted?
Question: Is there any chance that my Windows will fail to load after resizing its partition? I remember ~4 years ago i wanted to install Ubuntu as second system on…
Samsung MP0804H
MP0804H Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung MP0804H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What’s the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?
Question: I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways: Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical =…
Samsung HM080GC
HM080GC Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung HM080GC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…