Seagate ST2000LM007
ST2000LM007 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST2000LM007 Seagate 2TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gbps 128MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Do S.M.A.R.T. requests wear off the harddrive?
Question: In a german ubuntu guide for the hddtemp program is claimed that every S.M.A.R.T. request wakes up the drive although no data is read. Because some harddrives that can…
Seagate ST3250820NS
ST3250820NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3250820NS Seagate Barracuda ES 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
2.2 TB limit applies even to eSATA drives? 3TB appears as 746 GB
Question: I have an Icy Dock 3.5″ external enclosure with USB 2.0 and eSATA. ?I have an Intel DG45ID motherboard with USB 2.0 and eSATA ports. ?In the past I…
Seagate ST3250824SV
ST3250824SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3250824SV Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
What does TRIM on an HDD mean?
Question: I was examining a new hard drive when I noticed something peculiar: It’s a 1 TB HDD from Seagate, and CrystalDiskInfo shows that it supports TRIM! AFAIK, TRIM is…
Seagate ST3250824NS
ST3250824NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3250824NS Seagate NL35 Series 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue
Question: Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on…
Seagate ST3250820SV
ST3250820SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3250820SV Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
Is there a clean way to obtain exclusive access to a physical partition under Windows?
Question: I’m trying, under Windows 7, to run a virtual machine with VMWare Player from an OS installed on a physical partition. However, when I boot the virtual machine, VMWare…