Seagate ST2000DM001
ST2000DM001 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000DM001 Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
Equivalent of badblocks on Windows or DOS
Question: Is there a utility in DOS or Windows that is as thorough as badblocks on Linux? Answer: The best tool I’ve ever encountered for testing a hard drive for…
Seagate ST2000DL003
ST2000DL003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000DL003 Seagate BarraCuda Green 2TB 5900RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Sequential vs Random I/O on SSDs?
Question: I believe I understand the difference between sequential and random I/O on HDD’s, and that sequential I/O is much faster. My question, this article states that: ? there is…
Seagate ST2000DL001
ST2000DL001 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000DL001 Seagate Barracuda LP 2TB 5900RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
What’s the difference between SATA and SATA-II (3.0 GB)?
Question: What’s the difference between SATA and SATA-II (3.0 GB)? Specifically, if I’m shopping for a new (budget, so not new-new) motherboard, do I need to take into consideration if…
Seagate ST2000LM015
ST2000LM015 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000LM015 Seagate BarraCuda Pro 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
GPT PMBR Size Mismatch will be corrected by w(rite)
Question: Linux gives error “GPT PMBR size mismatch will be corrected by w(rite).” The error message is far from self-explanatory. Does this mean that Linux will (attempt to) resize the…
Seagate ST2000LM010
ST2000LM010 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000LM010 Seagate 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
What is typical power consumption of 2.5″ laptop external hard drive connected to USB socket?
Question: What is the approximate power and current consumption of a 2.5″ laptop external Hard Drive 7200RPM SATA (300Gb), connected to a laptop USB port as an external hard drive?…