Seagate ST31000342AS
ST31000342AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. Seagate ST31000342AS 1TB 7.2K SATA 3.5″ 32MB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…
Do hard drives lie?
Question: In the days of old, I remember getting drive errors, but it seems that modern drives never report errors, but instead make a best effort to return you something.…
Seagate ST31000340AS
ST31000340AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST31000340AS Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 3.5-inch 3GB/s NCQ 32MB Cache Hard Drive.…
Why can data be recovered after formatting?
Question: If a quick format just marks bits as writable, and a normal format writes 0s to the entire disk, why do people bother with DBAN, and why are multiple…
Seagate ST31000333AS
ST31000333AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST31000333AS Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
How to copy files while not modifying the file creation times at all?
Question: How to copy files while not modifying the file creation times at all? Just like the cut and paste works: it doesn’t modify the file creation times at all.…
Seagate ST31000322CS
ST31000322CS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST31000322CS Seagate Pipeline HD ST31000322CS 1 TB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive SATA/300 5900 rpm…
In chkdsk, what is an online scan?
Question: Running Windows 8.0 Pro, chkdsk has a /scan option that Runs a online scan on the volume (sic). What is an online scan? My guess is that it runs…
Seagate ST1000VX003
ST1000VX003 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. ST1000VX003 Seagate Surveillance 1TB 5900RPM 3.5-inch SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache Internal Hard Drive. All…
Unable to Write Zeros to Bad Sectors/Hard Disk Not Counting Reallocated Sectors
Question: I have a drive that is reporting that the current pending sectors is “45”. I have used badblocks to identify the sectors and I have been trying to write…