Does low disk space affect SSD performance?
Question: I was wondering if having less than 5-10GB of free space on an SSD would affect performance. Is it specific to SSD or is it more of an operating…
Samsung SV6004H
SV6004H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. Samsung SV6004H 60GB 5.4K 3.5Inch ATA/100 512KB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…
How can I determine the sector size on an external hard drive?
Question: Hard drives are transitioning from 512 byte to 4096 byte sector sizes, and it looks like Windows XP won’t support these newer drives without additional software (such as WDalign…
Samsung SV6003H
SV6003H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV6003H Samsung Spinpoint V40 60GB 5400RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
badblocks vs. SMART Extended Self Test
Question: How does a full read/write surface scan by ‘badblocks’ differ from the built in SMART Extended self test? It seems like they are both full surface scans, so why…
Samsung MP0603H
MP0603H Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. MP0603H Samsung Spinpoint M40 60GB 5400RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive. All…
Why create many partitions?
Question: I have noticed that when installing Ubuntu some people create multiple partitions for directories. Like one for root, one for home, one for boot. What is the advantage to…
Samsung SV4002H
SV4002H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV4002H Samsung V40 Series 40GB 5400RPM ATA 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
How to assign permanent drive letters to removable USB hard drives
Question: I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters (e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E:, but it’s…
Samsung SV0411N
SV0411N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV0411N Samsung Spinpoint VL40P SV0411N 40 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive IDE Ultra ATA/133…