What are the differences between 2.5″ and 3.5″ hard disks?
Question: What does the 2.5″/3.5″ value indicate? The thickness? I want one of my friends to buy 1TB hard disk for me. I know I want a 1TB capacity and…
Samsung HN-M320XBB
HN-M320XBB Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a USB interface. All information about the Samsung HN-M320XBB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to force a remap of sectors reported in S.M.A.R.T C5 (Current Pending Sector Count)?
Question: The S.M.A.R.T C5 value of my Samsung HM640JJ Hard Drive (in an HP Pavilion dv6 laptop) is “yellow status = caution” C5 was 10 yesterday, and it’s 21 today.…
Samsung HM321HX
HM321HX Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a USB interface. All information about the Samsung HM321HX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What are the differences between primary and logical partition?
Question: What are the major differences? Which is more preferable? Are there any OS specific advantages for one over the other? Answer: In the legacy MBR partition scheme, only at…
Samsung HM100UX
HM100UX Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a USB interface. All information about the Samsung HM100UX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How vibration sensitive are hard disk drives?
Question: I’ve gotten my hands on a seriously cheap laptop grade 2.5 inch drive. I’m intending to use one on a desktop that doesn’t have 2.5 inch bays as a…
Samsung HD083GJ
HD083GJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD083GJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
When to stop using a hard drive? What rules/software apply?
Question: When having a old hard disk – when should you stop using it ? I recently got a new 1 TB hard disk, and am left with 3 old…
Samsung SP0812C
SP0812C Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung SP0812C hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…