Is my hard disk failing?
Question: I have a problem with my computer: I’m using Windows 7 x64, and when I try to acces the Downloads folder, it takes a long time. After waiting for…
BitLocker takes days on an empty external disk / Is “Encrypt used disk space only” available on Windows 7?
Question: I have Windows 7 x64 and a brand new USB external 2 TB hard drive. I formatted it and I confirm it’s empty. I enabled BitLocker, and two things…
Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
Question: I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it’s been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I’ve run smartctl and…
What’s the difference between a disk and a drive?
Question: Would this make the term ‘disk drive’ a slight misnomer? Also, I thought RAM was equivalent to the term ‘volatile’ memory, but apprently ‘hard disk drives’ are also RAM…
How to get total running time of a hard disk
Question: In order to do disk rotation in a server, I need to know the current running time (online) time of a disk on a Linux CentOS release 6.3 (Final)…
How to isolate bad sectors on a hard disk in Windows 7?
Question:Fixing bad sectors ?? ??(5 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? If I know that a hard disk has bad sectors, how can I “mark” them so that Windows…
BIOS Hard Drive Password Security?
Question: I have a Dell Latitude E6400 and I would like to know how secure setting a BIOS HDD Password is? Does this apply some form of encryption to the…
How much “Load_cycle_count” can my hard drive hypotethically sustain?
Question: I’m using S.M.A.R.T. to check my hard drives, I recently purchased a used WD Caviar Blue 2.5″ and I’ve noticed that the Load_Cycle_Count has already exceeded the 300k mark,…
How long does a hard disk spin after power off?
Question: I frequently use 3.5″ hard drives in external “docks”, swapping them in and out. ?The platters are heavy and have great angular momentum and I imagine that if the…
How many drives do I need for ZFS RAID-Z2?
Question: How much storage would I need if I wanted to use RAID-Z2? ?I am building a home server that will run FreeNAS with a ZFS file system, and currently…