Make two disks appear as one big share on LAN
Question: I bought 2 x 2TB disks for a NAS server, (linux debian). I want to make both drives appear as one big 4TB disk on the LAN. This can…
HDD Beeping (2 drives)
Question: Right, it is finally time for me to take action. Namely, the HDDs on my workstation “beep” in a pattern, as if it’s some kind of an alert. It’s…
Seagate ST96812A
ST96812A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST96812AS Seagate Momentus 60GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5I Hard Drive. All information…
Why is Used + Available disk space always less than Total disk space?
Question:root@localhost:~ $ df /dev/sdb1Filesystem ?1K-blocks ?Used Available Use% Mounted on/dev/sdb1 ?1922858352 ?23247088 1801935664 ?2% /mnt/external/sdb1 used+available = 1825182752 Size – 1825182752 ?= 97675600 Answer: 97675600 / 1825182752 = 5% this…
E-sata + Usb 3.0/3.1 HDD dock.
Question: I’ve been looking for a kind of specific HDD/SSD dock. As all of my computers now have Usb 3.1, and one has USB 3.1 Gen 2, I figured its…
Seagate ST960822A
ST960822A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST960822A Seagate Momentus 60GB 5400RPM EIDE Laptop 8MB Cache DMA/ATA-100 (ULTRA) 2.5-inch Ultra- Slim…
Hard Drive read speed below 2 MB/sec. Normal? How to improve?
Question: I have a relatively new Western Digital 1TB EADS hard drive (SATA) as my secondary drive. I’ve always found that accessing certain folders with lots of content (e.g. /Music/)…
Failed/corrupted HDD? Seagate Archive HDD ST8000AS0002
Question: Hi there.Woke up this morning to my media/file server being unresponsive. It is an older ThinkServer TS140 that’s just running a Win 7 install. After forcefully rebooting it, it…
Seagate ST36811A
ST36811A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6.4GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST36811A Seagate U8 6.4GB 5400RPM ATA-66 512KB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Is it a big performance gain to run a VM from a second drive?
Question: Dell offers a laptop with either a 500GB drive or two 320GB drives (both 7200rpm and no options for SSD). ?I will be running VMs for development and will…