Fujitsu MHY220RBH Reviews
Reviews of the MHY220RBH Fujitsu 200GB SATA 2.5″ Hard Drive. Fujitsu MHY220RBH—a storage device that belongs to a specific era and occupies a distinct position in the market. Whether this…
Why are they putting “processors” on hard drives?
Question: What does it mean when hard drives have a processor on the hard drive? How does it work, and what benefit does it have? I don’t understand – the…
Fujitsu MHF2021AT
MHF2021AT Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2.1GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Fujitsu MHF2021AT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Good block size for disk-cloning with diskdump (dd)
Question: I use dd in its simplest form to clone a hard drive: dd if=INPUT of=OUTPUT However, I read in the manpage that dd knows a blocksize parameter. Is there…
Fujitsu MPC3064AT
MPC3064AT Fujitsu 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6.4GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Fujitsu MPC3064AT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Commuting with a laptop that is powered on
Question: How safe is it to leave my laptop running a build or other time-consuming task when I am traveling? I mostly travel on a two-wheeler, with my laptop in…
Fujitsu MHK2048AT
MHK2048AT Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4.8GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Fujitsu MHK2048AT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is an HDD overwritten with zeroes faster?
Question: I had a PC with two OSs installed, which hard drive I erased using Disks from UbuntuUSB. I chose quick erase. As I understand, it deleted partition table, but…
Fujitsu MHR2020AT
MHR2020AT Fujitsu 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 20GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Fujitsu MHR2020AT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How do I find out what processes are accessing the hard disk in a GNU/Linux-based system?
Question: I’m looking for the equivalent to top for disk access, so I can tell which process(es) are currently reading and/or writing to disk. ?I’m currently using Ubuntu, but I…