Full physical hd check
Question: I would like to run a full, sector-by-sector, physical check on some external hard drives. As far as I know,chkdsk does not supply this option. Is there a workaround…
Samsung HD204UI
HD204UI Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD204UI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Get total size of my hard drive in Linux, using the command line, without root permissions?
Question: I’m trying to find out the total size of my hard drive using df -h, but it prints the size of each partition and requires sudo. Is there any…
Samsung HD203WI
HD203WI Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD203WI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How to check whether there is bad sector on an external USB hard disk on OS X?
Question: How can I check whether there are any bad sectors on an externally connected USB hard disk drive? Answer: Related questions Fix bad blocks on Mac hard disk �C…
Samsung HD256GM
HD256GM Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD256GM hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
6Gb/s SATA hard drive with 3Gb/s SATA port?
Question: I know I can use a 3Gb/s SATA hard drive with a 6Gb/s SATA port, but can I use a 6Gb/s SATA hard drive with a 3Gb/s SATA port?…
Samsung HD256GJ
HD256GJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD256GJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
SMART-Test never finishes
Question: When running SMART-Tests using smartmontools, they NEVER finish. I always get “Interrupted (host reset.)” on various different systems and disks, including Debian in x86 and ARM, OS X on…
Samsung HD254GJ
HD254GJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD254GJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…