Category: FAQs

Question: Since SSDs are still fairly new, there isn’t a history of posts saying “I reached my writes limit on 10% of my SSD… �C and here is what happened…

Question: I used to have bad sectors on my SSD about one month ago. I had fixed them through performing one level of zero formatting. However, after few days, when…

Question: This is not as straight forward as it sounds. Specs from Western Digital’s site for a WD 3TB Green Drive: Read/Write 6.00 Watts Idle 5.50 Watts Looks fine right?…

Question: I have a Lenovo g560 3-4 years old, Intel i5, with 2GB ram and with a Geforce 310M. It always had some issues during startup or when starting a…

Question: I have a hard drive with 3 bad sectors. I know the sector numbers and the computer can still boot into Windows. I want to run sector repair from…

Question: I am trying to semi-securely erase a bunch of hard drives. ?The following is working at 20-50Mb/s dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda But dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda seems not to work. ?Also…

Question: Why do hard disk drives mostly have the same speed? They are mostly 5400, 7200, 10000 RPM. Why not 6000 or 8000? Is there any reason or benefit for…

Question: My netbook has a flash drive instead of a hard disk drive, and I’m using Ubuntu Netbook Remix with ext3 as the file system. I’ve read some articles concerning…

Question: These HDDs will be used mostly for backups and data-storage (pictures, movies) which aren’t often read.The price difference is 1.5 Euros in the case of these two: HDD Western…

Question: My friend’s laptop motherboard died and he needs his Windows 7 product key from the hard drive (which is still working). I connected the old drive as a secondary…