What kind of periodic maintenance should I carry out on HDD backup?
Question: I have a bunch of directories backed up on an external HDD – not an SSD, a magnetic disk. The backup is just onto a single disk (yes, I…
Samsung SP8004H
SP8004H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP8004H Samsung 40GB 7200RPM ATA-133 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Samsung SP8004H…
Clone only space in use from hard disk
Question: Can I use dd, rsync, clonezilla or any tool to clone only space in use in my hard disk in Linux? I need to do a backup from a…
Samsung SP0842N
SP0842N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP0842N Samsung 80GB Spinpoint P80 Series 7200RPM ATA-133 8MB 8.9ms 500K hrs 3.5-inch Hard…
How to prolong the life of an external hard drive?
Question: In ten years, across several different machines, different companies, and different operating systems I’ve noticed a trend that external hard drives die long before their internal counterparts. Everyone I’ve…
Samsung SP0822N
SP0822N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP0822N Samsung 80GB 7200RPM ATA-133 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Samsung SP0822N…
Why is gzip slow despite CPU and hard drive performance not being maxed out?
Question: I have some JSON files, 20 GB each, that I want to compress with gzip: gzip file1.json This takes up one full CPU core, all fine. It processes around…
Samsung SP0802N
SP0802N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP0802N Samsung 80GB 7200RPM ATA-133 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…
Is it safe to resize Windows partition with GParted?
Question: Is there any chance that my Windows will fail to load after resizing its partition? I remember ~4 years ago i wanted to install Ubuntu as second system on…
Samsung MP0804H
MP0804H Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. MP0804H Samsung Spinpoint 80 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive IDE Ultra ATA/100 (ATA-6) 5400…