Seagate ST3160316AS
ST3160316AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160316AS Seagate Barracuda 160GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Disk Drive.…
Internal SATA hard disk shows up as removable device on Windows 7
Question: I am running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire M7720 with three internal SATA drives; drive #2 and #3 are on a removable HDD rack. Drive #3 (on the…
Seagate ST3160215SCE
ST3160215SCE Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160215SCE Seagate DB35 Series 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s Internal 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Where is S.M.A.R.T. data stored on a HDD?
Question: The S.M.A.R.T. attributes are attributes that a HDD keeps about its health and performance. I know that the MBR is stored at C,H,S (0,0,1) which leaves no free disc…
Seagate ST3160212SCE
ST3160212SCE Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3160212SCE Seagate 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal. All information about the…
How do I recover data from my presumably dead hard disk
Question: I have a Seagate ST3500620AS (Barracuda 7200.11) hard disk: SATA 500GB 7200 spindle speed I’ve used this disk for about 2 years now. But today it happened that my…
Seagate ST3100011A
ST3100011A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3100011AS Seagate 100GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
HDD activity when computer is idle
Question: What can cause HDD activity when computer is left idle? My HDD is quite loud and I want to get rid of the noise when computer is idle. It…
Seagate ST9160827AS
ST9160827AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST9160827AS Seagate Momentus 5400.4 160GB 5400RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
RAID5 vs RAID4 purpose of floating parity
Question: I still did not get why is RAID5 better than RAID4. I understand both computes parity bits that are used for recovering if some failure occurs, the only difference…