Are 3.5 inch SSD drives available? Why so many 2.5inch versions?
Question: I want an SSD SATAIII because to me it represents the best combination of quietest & fastest. But there doesn’t seem to be much choice relative to 2.5″ variants…
Seagate ST980817AS
ST980817AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980817AS Seagate 80GB 5400RPM SATA 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate ST980817AS…
Quickest way to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions for repartitioning in Linux?
Question: I want to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions and data, so I can repartition it (this is not for security purposes). I’ve looked at sudo dd…
Seagate ST980816AS
ST980816AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980816AS Seagate Momentus 5400 FDE.2 ST980816AS 80 GB 2.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/150 5400…
Why are my hard drives failing?
Question: I have a small Ubuntu server running at home, with 2 hard drives. There are two software raids (raid1) on the disks, managed by mdadm,which I believe is irrelevant,…
Seagate ST980814AS
ST980814AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980814AS Seagate 80GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Is it possible to format a hard-drive too often?
Question: Every couple of months I find my computer becomes sluggish, so I format the hard drive then reinstall Windows to keep it running fast. I’ve been doing this for…
Seagate ST980813AS
ST980813AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980813AS Seagate Momentus 80GB 7200RPM SATA 2.5-inch 8MB Cache Laptop Hard Drive. All information…
What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive?
Question: I’ve seen programs in the past that were able to check the SMART status of a hard disk drive but it wasn’t easy for me to find. Also, I…
Seagate ST980811AS
ST980811AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST980811AS Seagate Momentus 80GB 5400RPM SERIAL ATA-150 (SATA) 2.5-inch 8MB Cache Internal Laptop HA.…