Hard drive issues – SpinRite vs. S.M.A.R.T
Question: The Toshiba hard drive in a Sony VAIO laptop went bad. I put in a Western Digital drive (WD1600BEVS-60RST0, firmware v4.01G04) from an HP laptop. I ran SpinRite at…
Making sense of the 2TB MBR partition limit
Question: The MBR partition table supports a “partition size” of 4,294,967,295 sectors. Assuming the standard 512-byte sector, this translates to a total limit of ?2,199,023,255,040 bytes = 2TiB, or just…
ExpressCache vs. Intel’s Rapid Storage and Smart Response Technologies
Question: What is the difference between Samsung’s ExpressCache Technology and Intel’s Rapid Storage Technology? From the very little I understand about computer hardware, it seems that they both use a…
Is it adviseable to stack internal hard disk over each other (after removing them from the casing)
Question: Would it damage or cause any interference to the non-operational (whereby electricity or power is removed or disconnected from the hard disk and it will be store inside a…
Why does Windows Defragmenter do nearly nothing on a disk with 23% empty space?
Question: While trying to defragment a 80 GB NTFS (4 KB cluster size) volume on Windows XP, I encountered a strange problem: the defragmentation process is very quick, but also…
Linux: What is the best way to copy from a damaged HD?
Question: I get I/O errors from my storage HD when i try to copy files. These are large raw video files, so I can tolerate errors. cp stops on the…
Carrying a hard disk in an airport terminal
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Side Effects of Formatting Hard Drive
Question: I know people who reformat their hard drives once a month. This seems like a terrible idea to me. I’ve done some preliminary research and it seems like you…
LVM: Two or more volume groups (VGs) on one physical volume (PV)
Question: I have just a short question about LVM. A physical volume is a Partition or a whole Disk. A volume group is a container for a least one physical…
External USB hard drive and risk of internal condensation?
Question: Apparently you can kill a USB hard drive by moving it from a cold to warm environment and powering it up. The killer being internal condensation. Q1: How real…