When to partition the hard drive?
Question: Are there any special hardware wise advantages of partitioning a hard drive before OS installation compared to doing it after OS installation? (Here by advantages, I mean physical effects…
Samsung HM161JJ
HM161JJ Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM161JJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Faster recovery from a disk with bad sectors
Question: Recently I tried to dd from an unhealthy HDD to a file. I used dd if=/dev/sdb of=somefile bs=4096 conv=noerror,sync. My problem was that dd wasted a lot of time…
Samsung HM160JI
HM160JI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM160JI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Dynamic vs Basic Disk – Hard Drives
Question: I have bought a removable hard drive enclosure and a 1TB hard drive to fit in it. ?Its pretty cool; it has a little handle at the front of…
Samsung SP1213C
SP1213C Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung SP1213C hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What is the safe temperature limit for a consumer SATA hard drive?
Question: Background My personal desktop system at home has 5 SATA drives racked up inside. Recently my system started failing in odd ways like random kernel panics and I eventually…
Samsung HM121HI
HM121HI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM121HI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Parted has no ‘resize’ command available
Question: I’m trying to resize a partition using parted, but it has no the ‘resize’ command available gchain@archbogchain@archbook:~$ sudo parted /dev/sdb GNU Parted 3.1Using /dev/sdbWelcome to GNU Parted! Type ‘help’…
Samsung HM120JI
HM120JI Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 120GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Samsung HM120JI hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…