What is the origin of the hard drive light?
Question: In practically every computer I’ve had, there’s always been a light to display hard drive activity. What’s its origin and original use? Answer: Well, I can say, as an…
Samsung HD502HI
HD502HI Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD502HI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What actually is “unallocated space”?
Question: Once again, here I am trying to wrap my head around some HDD and filesystem concepts. When Windows displays a drive as having “unallocated space” and prompts for the…
Samsung HD501LJ
HD501LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD501LJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What happened to the B: drive in Windows and why does the hard drive default to C?
Question: Why is it that I see an A: drive and a C: drive but not a B: drive? Is there a reason why the disk partitions start at C?…
Samsung HN-M500MBB
HN-M500MBB Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HN-M500MBB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is the boot sector really just the beginning of a drive?
Question: First, I am assuming that drives and/or partitions have a linear address from start to finish. This must be the case, or else programs like dd would not be…
Samsung HM500LI
HM500LI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM500LI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How to prevent hard drive from spinning down Windows 7?
Question: I had a Western Digital External 1TB drive, which I was accessing via USB. I decided one day, that I would prefer to mount the HDD in my case,…
Samsung HM500JJ
HM500JJ Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM500JJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…