Why is FAT32 limited to just under 2^28 clusters?
Question: With FAT16 the maximum partition size is 2GB when your maximum cluster size is 32K. This is calculated by multiplying the number of addressable units by the cluster size.…
Samsung HD403LJ
HD403LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD403LJ Samsung SpinPoint T166 400GB 7200RPM 3.5-inch 16MB Cache SATA 3GB/s Hard Drive. All…
Can I set up a RAID 5 with a bunch of drives of different sizes?
Question: I currently have 3 1TB drives, a couple 500GB ones and some 750GB ones. Can I put them all in a RAID 5 configuration or do they need to…
Samsung HD400LJ
HD400LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD400LJ Samsung SpinPoint T133 400GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache SATA 3GB/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Do hard drives really have open cases now?
Question: I’m shopping for new hard drives and all the stores (Amazon, Overstock, Newegg, etc.) now show product pictures like this: I can find no information in the product descriptions…
Samsung HM400LI
HM400LI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. HM400LI Samsung Spinpoint M6 HM400LI 400 GB 2.5 Plug-in Module Hard Drive SATA/300 5400…
Determining if a hard disk has been removed and data copied from it?
Question: Is there a method or a tool that can detect if someone has separated my hard disk from my computer, copied data from it, and returned it back? I…
Samsung HD322HJ
HD322HJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD322HJ Samsung SpinPoint F1 Desktop Class 320GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache SERIAL ATA-II 3.5-inch Hard…
Copying files: does Windows write to disk if files are identical?
Question: I have a directory with a lot of books in PDF format (around 2GB in size). While reading I often leave notes and annotations in the files. Occasionally I…
Samsung HD322GM
HD322GM Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. HD322GM Samsung SpinPoint 320GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…