Fastest Linux Filesystem on Shingled Disks
Question: There is considerable interest in shingled drives. These put data tracks so close together that you can’t write to one track without clobbering the next. This may increase capacity…
How do I prevent disk renumbering on reboot in OS X?
Question: I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with Mac OS X 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not…
Do hard disk drives turn on 512e (512byte emulation of 4k sectors) as-needed depending on host controller?
Question: I have a 4 TB hard disk that has 4k physical sector size (Advanced Format) and I attached it to two SATA host controllers (one internal and one in…
USB in Windows depends on system disc being master
Question: After changing one HDD I accidentally connected my hard drives in reverse order, so non-system HDD became master and SSD with the system became slave. The interesting thing is,…
Finding out what directories are using the most space on windows
Question:Closed 11 years ago. ? Possible Duplicate: ?Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows? ? Hi, I have about 2 terabytes of total space spread over several drives..…
Disable or sleep secondary hard drive in Macbook
Question: I’ve done some quick Googling but didn’t find an answer. I’ve put an SSD in my MacBook, and at the same time moved the original hard drive to the…
how to resume ddrescue process?
Question: I have to recover my 1TB USB HD. I’m using ddrescue to accomplish this. ?Is there a way that I can resume ddrescue once I start it? I’m using…
What is the fastest way to mark bad sectors *without data recovery*?
Question: I have an out of warranty laptop that has an hdd with bad sectors. I say that because ?chkdsk /r got stuck for over 24 hours at certain %.…
Is ATA the same as IDE/PATA or SATA?
Question: I was taking a look at a HDD and I found a document (from Toshiba, link: 2.5-Inch SATA HDD mq01abdxxx) that says: ? Drive interface: Serial ATA, Revision 2.6…
How do I troubleshoot a slow hard drive?
Question: My computer is suffering of slow-downs and I’m not surprised (it’s around 6years old). Here’s what I’ve verified: They are not very frequent (only a couple of times a…