Seagate ST500LX025
ST500LX025 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LX025 Seagate 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Buffer 2.5-inch Solid State Drive. All information…
Windows7 hardlink over two different drives
Question: I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and…
Seagate ST500LX012
ST500LX012 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LX012 Seagate Ultra Thin 500GB 5400RPM SATA 2.5-inch 8GB NAND Flash SSHD Solid State…
Why does sector-number addressing in CHS start at sector 1 and not 0?
Question: Before LBA was introduced, why does CHS start at 0,0,1 and not 0,0,0 ? Answer: Unfortunately, this is just how the CHS addressing scheme, popular at the time, was…
Seagate ST500LX003
ST500LX003 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LX003 Seagate Momentus XT 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gbps 32MB Cache 4GB SLC SSD Embedded…
How can I verify the health of hard disks using a Synology NAS?
Question: I’ll receive my first NAS (a Synology DS413) and three hard disks tomorrow. Of course I’d like to check if everything’s fine with the disks before setting up RAID…
Seagate ST500LT032
ST500LT032 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LT032 Seagate MobileMax 500GB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 16MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
How to wipe unallocated disk space in Windows
Question: Due to the nature of how filesystems like NTFS work, files that are deleted “permanently” from within Windows aren’t immediately deleted – they’re simply marked as deleted from the…
Seagate ST500LT025
ST500LT025 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500LT025 Seagate Momentus THIN 500GB 5400RPM 2.5-inch 7MM 16MB Cache SATA 3GB/s SED FIPS…
Why are most of 2TB hard disks released 5400 RPM?
Question: Most of 1TB Hard disks run as 7200 RPM recently.But why 2TB is not? Few disks have a 7200 rpm specification.Is there a technical reason? Answer: It’s not just…