Samsung SP0411C/R
SP0411C/R Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung SP0411C/R hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Can a USB hub be used to access a drive from two devices?
Question: So let’s say, I get a USB hub, and I plug it into a hard drive for example (as in, I plug the USB cable that typically goes in…
Samsung HD040GJ/P
HD040GJ/P Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD040GJ/P hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is my hard drive failing?
Question: I’m beginning to worry about my ~3yr old WD Green drive. In the last few days i’ve noticed that my media player is acting weird, it won’t move to…
Samsung HM040GI
HM040GI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM040GI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why is FAT32 limited to just under 2^28 clusters?
Question: With FAT16 the maximum partition size is 2GB when your maximum cluster size is 32K. This is calculated by multiplying the number of addressable units by the cluster size.…
Samsung HD403LJ
HD403LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD403LJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Can I set up a RAID 5 with a bunch of drives of different sizes?
Question: I currently have 3 1TB drives, a couple 500GB ones and some 750GB ones. Can I put them all in a RAID 5 configuration or do they need to…
Samsung HD400LJ
HD400LJ Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HD400LJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Do hard drives really have open cases now?
Question: I’m shopping for new hard drives and all the stores (Amazon, Overstock, Newegg, etc.) now show product pictures like this: I can find no information in the product descriptions…