Category: FAQs

Question: I’m running Kubuntu 12.04. I have a brand new, never used Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 hard drive. It’s an internal drive. I installed it in a USB enclosure. When I…

Question: My Seagate doesn’t spin up. I need help identifying TVS diodes on HD PCB and how to test them. I have a multimeter but unsure which pos/neg leads go…

Question: Hi everybody, I finished building my PC, I habe 3 SATA devices (1 SSD and 2 equal HDD), also onedie M.2-One HDD is not working, its not recognized in…

Question: I’ve been having this severe performance issue, both in Ubuntu 11.10, and Debian Wheezy: If one process uses up a great deal of RAM (say, 3700 MB out of…

Question: So I was a victim of the classic wrong-PSU-cable and fried 3 HDDs with different situations: One 8 year old WD Black with SMOOTH chips burnt out and doesn’t…

Question: How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size ? ? Answer: To find your hard drive’s model number: Method 1: Open the Device Manager in the…

Question: Soooooo, this is very odd, my system just froze and I had to manually reset it, upon booting up I checked my HDD in case some more sectors had…

Question: A friend of mine asked me to encrypt the hard drive on his netbook (running Windows Vista) so I used TrueCrypt’s full-system encryption to do it. All is well.…

Question: Hi there, Can anyone help me identify the TVS diode on my Hitachi 2.5 SATA PCB? And also tell me the best way to test it?Thank you in advance.…

Question: I have been trying to repair a laptop that simply beeps instead of booting. After taking it apart I have now realised that it is the hard disk beeping.…