Hazardous materials in a hard drive
Question: I have an old laptop at my disposal that has a malfunctioning HDD in it. I would really enjoy taking the drive apart and looking at it. However, I…
Seagate ST3300007LW
ST3300007LW Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST3300007LW Seagate Cheetah 300GB 10000RPM Ultra-320 SCSI 8MB Cache 68-Pin 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
On which physical drive is this logical drive?
Question: I want to understand where logical drives (e.g. C:, D:) are mapped on physical drives (e.g. I have a Western Digital and a Toshiba physical disks connected to my…
Seagate ST3300007LC
ST3300007LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST3300007LC Seagate Cheetah 300GB 10000RPM Ultra-320 SCSI 8MB Cache 80-Pin 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
which file type to install my virtual hard disk in while installing a new machine on virtualbox?
Question: I got some options like VHD, VMDK, HDD, and VDI is there a file type that is most commonly used and is supported by most other virtual disk software?…
Seagate ST318406LC
ST318406LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 18GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST318406LC Seagate Cheetah 18.35GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-160 SCSI 4MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile Hard…
5400rpm HDD speeds in a USB 3.0 connectivity enclosure
Question: I plan to replace my laptop’s 5400rpm HDD with an SSD in the near future. I then want to make the old HDD an external HDD. I want to…
Seagate ST318404LC
ST318404LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 18GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST318404LC Seagate Cheetah 18.37GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-160 SCSI Hot Pluggable 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low…
What’s the purpose of the “Capacity” selection in the “Format Volume” dialog?
Question: When formatting my hard drives or USB flash drives, I’ve always seen the “Capacity” cascade menu with only one option. The image below is taken when trying to format…
Seagate ST318453LW
ST318453LW Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 18GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST318453LW Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 18.4GB 15000RPM Ultra-320 SCSI 68-Pin 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard…