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 an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV6004H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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 an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV6003H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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 an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung MP0603H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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 an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV4002H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
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 an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV0411N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…