Category: FAQs

Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? I was looking around for a cheaper SSD on Newegg and the time I’m writing this they have almost 300 2.5-inch SSD but only 12…

Question: As I understand it, for SSD it’s important to have partitions starting at the proper offset (i.e. correctly aligned). How can I check this offset under Windows Vista? Answer:…

Question: Gparted shows mu such a message after scanning the disk contents with title “Libprated warning”. The background: This happened after I tried shrinking down one of the partitions to…

Question: Which filesystem is compatible with GNU/Linux and Mac OS? I want to be able to read/write from both GNU/Linux and Mac OS. For example I want to copy a…

Question:Why are hard drives never as large as advertised? ?? ??(8 answers) ?? ????Looking for Clarification on Binary Prefix Logic / History vs. SI Prefix ?? ??(1 answer) ?? ???Closed…

Question: I’m using my laptop to copy a couple of harddrives to other harddrives. My laptop will probably be crunching through 20?TB of data… I’m wondering if this will affect…

Question: I’m doing some testing of a piece of code and I want to fill a hard drive with data. ?I found that dd can make huge files in an…

Question: I’ve recently been looking into getting a PCIe to SATA expansion card, which I think is otherwise known as a port multiplier (which was the first result in Google…

Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Super User. ? ?? Closed 1 year ago. ???? ??Improve this question ?? ? I have…

Question: I purchased a Baraccuda hard-drive (model ST3000DM001) that supports a maximum read transfer rate of 210 MB/s and SATA 1.5/3/6 Gb/s. My motherboard has a limited number of 6…