Category: FAQs

Question: Do you guys know how much time needs to pass until the data stored on a hard drive starts to degrade? To keep the data intact for long periods…

Question: Background Information / Computer Specs I have a 14-inch Samsung Series 5 Ultra. Core i5 CPU, 750GB HDD, 8GB RAM, Intel HD Graphics 4000. I’ve had the computer for…

Question: Recently I installed an NVMe drive in my Linux computer and I noticed that it’s listed as /dev/nvme0 and its partition is /dev/nvme0p1. I’m aware that it’s a different…

Question: I had two drives partitioned the same and running two RAID partitions on each. One died and I replaced it under warranty for the same model. While trying to…

Question: I’ve heard of SATA, but “LFF SATA” as listed on HP’s specs page (archive) is a new one for me. What does the “LFF” bit mean? Answer: LFF ==…

Question: I set Windows 7 to turn off hard disks after 20 minutes of nonuse, which it does a really good job at – it seems to turn off individual…

Question: It is conventional wisdom? that each time you spin a hard disk down and back up, you shave some time off its life expectancy. The topic has been discussed…

Question: I recently bought a Samsung 840 EVO 500 gb solid state drive for my laptop. There’s a feature (disabled by default) called RAPID (Real Time Acceleration Processing of I/O…

Question: What does it mean when hard drives have a processor on the hard drive? How does it work, and what benefit does it have? I don’t understand – the…

Question: I use dd in its simplest form to clone a hard drive: dd if=INPUT of=OUTPUT However, I read in the manpage that dd knows a blocksize parameter. Is there…