What does ‘Highest active time’ for disk activity in Windows resource monitor mean?
Question: I know what the disk io, disk queue length and other measures are, but what does ‘Highest active time’ mean? Is it the amount of time it is busy…
Seagate ST318305LC
ST318305LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 18GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST318305LC Seagate Cheetah 18GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-160 SCSI 4MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0inch)…
Why are so few SSD 3.5 inches?
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? I was looking around for a cheaper SSD on Newegg and the time I’m writing this they have almost 300 2.5-inch SSD but only 12…
Seagate ST3146807LC
ST3146807LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST3146807LC Seagate Cheetah 146.8GB 10000RPM Ultra-320 80 -Pin SCSI Hot Pluggable 8MB Cache 3.5-inch…
How to check the partition alignment on an SSD drive?
Question: As I understand it, for SSD it’s important to have partitions starting at the proper offset (i.e. correctly aligned). How can I check this offset under Windows Vista? Answer:…
Seagate ST3146707LC
ST3146707LC Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146GB and featuring a SCSI interface. ST3146707LC Seagate Cheetah 146GB 10000RPM 80-Pin Ultra-320 SCSI 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0-inch HIGH) Hot…
The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes
Question: Gparted shows mu such a message after scanning the disk contents with title “Libprated warning”. The background: This happened after I tried shrinking down one of the partitions to…
Seagate ST8000VN0022
ST8000VN0022 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST8000VN0022 Seagate IronWolf 8TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 256MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
Filesystem compatible with GNU/Linux and Mac
Question: Which filesystem is compatible with GNU/Linux and Mac OS? I want to be able to read/write from both GNU/Linux and Mac OS. For example I want to copy a…
Seagate ST8000NM0075
ST8000NM0075 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST8000NM0075 Seagate Enterprise Capacity V.5 8TB 7200RPM SAS 12.0Gb/s Dual-Port 256MB Cache 512E 3.5-inch…