What’s the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?
Question: I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways: Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical =…
Samsung HM080GC
HM080GC Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a IDE interface. HM080GC Samsung Spinpoint M5 HM080GC 80 GB 2.5 Plug-in Module Hard Drive 1 Pack…
Does low disk space affect SSD performance?
Question: I was wondering if having less than 5-10GB of free space on an SSD would affect performance. Is it specific to SSD or is it more of an operating…
Samsung SV6004H
SV6004H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. Samsung SV6004H 60GB 5.4K 3.5Inch ATA/100 512KB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…
How can I determine the sector size on an external hard drive?
Question: Hard drives are transitioning from 512 byte to 4096 byte sector sizes, and it looks like Windows XP won’t support these newer drives without additional software (such as WDalign…
Samsung SV6003H
SV6003H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV6003H Samsung Spinpoint V40 60GB 5400RPM ATA-100 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
badblocks vs. SMART Extended Self Test
Question: How does a full read/write surface scan by ‘badblocks’ differ from the built in SMART Extended self test? It seems like they are both full surface scans, so why…
Samsung MP0603H
MP0603H Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. MP0603H Samsung Spinpoint M40 60GB 5400RPM ATA-100 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive. All…
Why create many partitions?
Question: I have noticed that when installing Ubuntu some people create multiple partitions for directories. Like one for root, one for home, one for boot. What is the advantage to…
Samsung SV4002H
SV4002H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV4002H Samsung V40 Series 40GB 5400RPM ATA 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…