Demystifying SATA hotplug
Question: I have a BIOS that has an option to enable hot-plug on individual ports. I have a sliding enclosure for HDD and SSD (nothing more than a pass-trhu to…
Samsung SV1022D
SV1022D Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 10.2GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV1022D Samsung 10.2GB 5400RPM ATA-66 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Samsung SV1022D…
ZFS Beginner Setup with Different Size Drives
Question: Sorry for the noobie questions, I’ve been Googling all sorts of walkthroughs to create my ZFS raid, but I can’t seem to find the correct links for the answers…
Samsung SV1021H
SV1021H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 10.2GB and featuring a IDE interface. SV1021H Samsung 10.2GB 5400RPM ATA-100 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Samsung SV1021H…
WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive
Question: I recently noticed that one of my external hard drive seems to be missing a lot of space. It was recommended that I try WinDirStat, as it could help…
Samsung ST1000LM025
ST1000LM025 Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a USB interface. ST1000LM025 Seagate Momentus 1TB 5400RPM USB 3.0 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Internal Hard Drive. All…
What do different values of hard drive’s Advanced Power Management feature (hdparm -B) affect, except spin-down?
Question: hdparm’s -B parameter is documented as: ? Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low ?value means aggressive power management and a high value means…
Seagate ST39175LC
ST39175LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 9.1GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST39175LC Seagate 9.1GB 7200RPM 80-Pin Ultra-160 SCSI 1MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch)…
Windows 8 hard disk usage 100%
Question: This is a problem I’ve seen described in many places: Super User (here, here, here and so on) Microsoft support forums (here, here…) The Lenovo forums have some users…
Seagate ST373405LCV
ST373405LCV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 73GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST373405LCV Seagate Cheetah 73.4GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-160 SCSI 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0…