Category: FAQs

Question: I want to estimate the health and the remaining lifetime of my hard drive using SMART (in my case gsmartcontrol). However I don’t know how to interpret the attributes.…

Question: There is something I don’t quite understand. I know a SSD helps with OS load times, but I’m not sure if all this boost is only noticeable/interesting when booting,…

Question: I am running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire M7720 with three internal SATA drives; drive #2 and #3 are on a removable HDD rack. Drive #3 (on the…

Question: The S.M.A.R.T. attributes are attributes that a HDD keeps about its health and performance. I know that the MBR is stored at C,H,S (0,0,1) which leaves no free disc…

Question: I have a Seagate ST3500620AS (Barracuda 7200.11) hard disk: SATA 500GB 7200 spindle speed I’ve used this disk for about 2 years now. But today it happened that my…

Question: What can cause HDD activity when computer is left idle? My HDD is quite loud and I want to get rid of the noise when computer is idle. It…

Question: I still did not get why is RAID5 better than RAID4. I understand both computes parity bits that are used for recovering if some failure occurs, the only difference…

Question: My Windows environment (main development machine) is running a bit slow with operations involving the hard disk. As an indication, the HD light is constantly flashing and e.g. saving…

Question: Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep Windows 7? Is the disk powered off when the computer successfully have entered sleep mode? This is not my…

Question: Straight forward, as the title says but, I’ve never moved a partition with GParted and I’m concerned that I will damage the drive. ?I have a screen shot. I’m…