Category: FAQs

Question: I want to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions and data, so I can repartition it (this is not for security purposes). I’ve looked at sudo dd…

Question: I have a small Ubuntu server running at home, with 2 hard drives. There are two software raids (raid1) on the disks, managed by mdadm,which I believe is irrelevant,…

Question: Every couple of months I find my computer becomes sluggish, so I format the hard drive then reinstall Windows to keep it running fast. I’ve been doing this for…

Question: I’ve seen programs in the past that were able to check the SMART status of a hard disk drive but it wasn’t easy for me to find. Also, I…

Question: Some linux dual/multi-boot tutorials / general partitioning tutorials say that the inner side of a hard disk is faster than the outer side so partitions towards the outside tend…

Question: My HDD is slow 5400RPM and when working with 10GB size files it is impossible to use the computer until that big file finish re-creating a new copy/muxing/writing/etc. depends…

Question: I have 2 non-system SATA HDDs which are not mapped to a dir and normally kept ‘offline’ on my Windows 7 OS. Even this way they spin up from…

Question: If I have disks in a RAID-1 array, can I take one of them out and plug it into a different system to be read? This means, on the…

Question: On an NTFS-formatted hard drive with some bad sectors, does the hard drive still remember bad sectors after Windows’s diskpart clean is used to remove the NTFS volume? ?What…

Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? What lifetime can be expected of the typical hard disk? Or are there big differences between different types? And does it make a difference if…