Seagate ST3500620SS
ST3500620SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST3500620SS Seagate Barracuda ES.2 500GB 7200RPM SAS 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal Hard Disk…
Cleaning up temp files in Mac OS X
Question: My 4 months old Mac partition volume is losing space slowly and gradually. I am pretty sure there are a lot of orphaned temporary files laying around in the…
Seagate ST3500414SS
ST3500414SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST3500414SS Seagate Constellation ES 7200.1 500GB 7200RPM SAS 6.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Calculating hard disk block model reading time
Question: My professor posted a slide on how to calculate the data retrieval from hard disk using the block model. The specs were: 7200 RPM 5ms SEEK 80MB/s TRANSFER RATE…
Seagate ST4000NM0025
ST4000NM0025 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a SAS interface. ST4000NM0025 Seagate Enterprise Capacity 3.5 4TB SAS 12Gb/s 512n 128MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Do S.M.A.R.T. tests wear out the hard disk?
Question: I was wondering, is it safe to do “extended” smart test on a 1TB hdd regularly ( once a month) ? what about “short” and “conveyance” Answer: Yes, albeit…
Seagate ST3450856SS
ST3450856SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 450GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST3450856SS Seagate Cheetah 15K.6 450GB 15000RPM SAS 3Gb/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Why is there a lot of disk usage after laptop starts up from hibernation?
Question: When I turn my laptop on after it hibernated and even when I m at the point where I m at my desktop and I can well, use my…
Seagate ST3450857SS
ST3450857SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 450GB and featuring a SAS interface. ST3450857SS Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 450GB 15000RPM SAS 6Gbps 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
What is the granularity of a hard disk URE (unrecoverable read error)?
Question: tl;dr in case a URE ?occurs on a hdd, will I loose 1bit, 1Byte, or the size of a sector (512Bytes, or 4096 Bytes AF)? and if possible explain…