Seagate ST6000DM003
ST6000DM003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST6000DM003 Seagate BarraCuda 6TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
Are all basic SATA drives equally reliable?
Question: I’m about to purchase a SATA hard drive. I was wondering if, aside from the storage capacity, are there any other factors I should keep in mind? I care…
Seagate ST6000AS0002
ST6000AS0002 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST6000AS0002 Seagate ARCHIVE HDD 6TB 5900RPM SATA 6GB/s 128MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
How can I resolve the error “MediaKit reports partition (map) too small”?
Question: I am unable to expand my Mac’s hard disk. diskutility reports this error: ? MediaKit reports partition (map) too small How can I resolve this? Answer: If you start…
Seagate ST3640623AS
ST3640623AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3640623AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 640GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gbps 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive.…
Why does a SATA hard drive have jumpers?
Question: Back in the days of PATA hard drives, a person used jumpers on the drive to indicate whether the drive was the master or the slave of the channel,…
Seagate ST3640330AS
ST3640330AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. Seagate ST3640330AS 640GB 7.2K SATA 3.5″ 32MB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…
Is it faster to have two smaller hard drives or one big one?
Question: Assuming that the drives all have the same RPM and overall same specs except for storage space, would it be faster to install two hard drives together or just…
Seagate ST3640323AS
ST3640323AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3640323AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 ST3640323AS 640 GB Internal Hard Drive SATA/300 7200 rpm 32…
How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
Question: I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an “offline uncorrectable sector” appeared in the SMART status. 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ?0x0030 ?200 ?200 ?000 ?Old_age ?Offline…