Samsung HN-M500MBB
HN-M500MBB Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HN-M500MBB hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is the boot sector really just the beginning of a drive?
Question: First, I am assuming that drives and/or partitions have a linear address from start to finish. This must be the case, or else programs like dd would not be…
Samsung HM500LI
HM500LI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM500LI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to prevent hard drive from spinning down Windows 7?
Question: I had a Western Digital External 1TB drive, which I was accessing via USB. I decided one day, that I would prefer to mount the HDD in my case,…
Samsung HM500JJ
HM500JJ Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM500JJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Hard Drive suddenly became unresponsive, recovered on reboot. What to do next?
Question: So I have a desktop PC with an SSD and an HDD. Windows 10 is installed on the SSD, all my data is on the HDD. Today while I…
Samsung HM500JI
HM500JI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM500JI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Do harddrives slow down with age?
Question: My (windows based) laptop is coming up to six years old now, and it still has semi respectable specs – Core 2 Duo 2.6ghz, 1gb Ram, 500gb HDD, 256mb…
Samsung HM501II
HM501II Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM501II hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Can I trust a hard drive that has had to reallocate sectors?
Question: I ran this HD utility called CrystalDiskInfo that displays some of the S.M.A.R.T. information on my drives. ?It is displaying a “Caution” warning on one of my drives because…