Category: FAQs

Question: Before LBA was introduced, why does CHS start at 0,0,1 and not 0,0,0 ? Answer: Unfortunately, this is just how the CHS addressing scheme, popular at the time, was…

Question: I’ll receive my first NAS (a Synology DS413) and three hard disks tomorrow. Of course I’d like to check if everything’s fine with the disks before setting up RAID…

Question: Due to the nature of how filesystems like NTFS work, files that are deleted “permanently” from within Windows aren’t immediately deleted – they’re simply marked as deleted from the…

Question: Most of 1TB Hard disks run as 7200 RPM recently.But why 2TB is not? Few disks have a 7200 rpm specification.Is there a technical reason? Answer: It’s not just…

Question: I’m looking for a way to capture and visualize used disk space over time. All I need is one number– bytes used on disk. I store a lot of…

Question: On platter drives, when it is time to dispose of them, a degaussing takes care of the data and in most cases erases the factory pre-recorded servo tracks rendering…

Question: The Safely Remove Hardware icon in Windows 8 (and 8.1) offers the ability to eject my internal SATA drives, including the boot drive (see example): I don’t see myself…

Question: I’ve got three hard drives installed in my PC, though the drive order shown in Windows doesn’t reflect the order in which the drives are installed: SATA 1: 120gb…

Question: I’m using ImDisk to create a virtual drive in Windows 7. I use it as a temporary drive for documents, and it will be created every time the computer/windows…

Question: I have these 3 things: (1) An internal 3.5 SATA HDD.(2) An independent power supply that provides a Molex style connector (i.e. 5V and 12V power) and an adapter…