Seagate ST32000541AS
ST32000541AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. Seagate ST32000541AS 2TB 5.9K SATA 3.5″ 32MB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…
Wide SATA? connector with no break in the middle
Question: I need to connect my hard drive from my Lenovo T470p to my desktop, but it uses this wierd connector. ?It looks like the standard wide SATA, but there’s…
Seagate ST32000540AS
ST32000540AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST32000540AS Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
When a disk read or disk write occurs, where does the data go?
Question: I understand that there is such a thing as a disk controller which contains a buffer, but was wondering if the CPU reads directly from this buffer, or whether…
Seagate ST2000VX008
ST2000VX008 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000VX008 Seagate 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
How does a hard drive retain information after being formatted?
Question: Companies try to zero-fill their hard drives several times when they decommission them, why? Surely one pass of zero-fill would do the job exactly as they need. I understand…
Seagate ST2000VX003
ST2000VX003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000VX003 Seagate Surveillance 2TB 5900RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive. All…
Imaging new hard drive in Windows 7 laptop?
Question: I’m upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive. How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that…
Seagate ST2000VX002
ST2000VX002 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000VX002 Seagate SV35 2TB 5900RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive. All…
Is my hard drive dying?
Question: Im gettings strange error messages in the terminal. This is the output of dmesg: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x78 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface…