Category: FAQs

Question: I just finished cloning my 120 Gb solid state drive to a 2Tb HDD using the linux dd utility. ?Windows seems to think the new HDD is a solid…

Question: Frequently my bios for some reason tries to boot to my old HDD instead of my new SSD. This is starting to get very annoying have to switch HDD…

Question: I am having an issue with this lenovo thinkpad carbon x1, It’s about 3 months old. With normal use, It all of the sudden goes into a black screen…

Question: I’ve got a USB 2 5400 RPM external HD. I’m thinking of getting a new computer with USB 3 ports. If I’m currently getting read/write speeds from the external…

Question: Is there a utility in DOS or Windows that is as thorough as badblocks on Linux? Answer: The best tool I’ve ever encountered for testing a hard drive for…

Question: I believe I understand the difference between sequential and random I/O on HDD’s, and that sequential I/O is much faster. My question, this article states that: ? there is…

Question: What’s the difference between SATA and SATA-II (3.0 GB)? Specifically, if I’m shopping for a new (budget, so not new-new) motherboard, do I need to take into consideration if…

Question: Linux gives error “GPT PMBR size mismatch will be corrected by w(rite).” The error message is far from self-explanatory. Does this mean that Linux will (attempt to) resize the…

Question: What is the approximate power and current consumption of a 2.5″ laptop external Hard Drive 7200RPM SATA (300Gb), connected to a laptop USB port as an external hard drive?…

Question: In a german ubuntu guide for the hddtemp program is claimed that every S.M.A.R.T. request wakes up the drive although no data is read. Because some harddrives that can…