Troublesome hard-drive in LVM is it broken?
Question: I have a LVM volume set up with several harddrives, and one of them seems to be failing, or at least something strange is going on. Every time the…
How to predict HDD failure ?
Question: How can one know when an HDD is about to fail ? I do the following to see if the drive is failing: (1) Run this as an Admin:…
Western Digital WD8001FFWX
WD8001FFWX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD8001FFWX Western Digital 8TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
What are the replacement options for an IDE hard disk for a DOS based system?
Question: I have got a few “embedded” systems running MSDOS 6.2 which boot from and store data to IDE hard disks. Since these drives are nearing their end of life,…
HDD To SSD(Due to hdd wear out)
Question: Hey guys! So i am a newbie to this kind of stuff and i have a problem.6 years ago i built a PC and until this year everything was…
Western Digital WD800JD
WD800JD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800JD Western Digital Caviar Blue 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 8MB Cache 3.5-inch…
Hiren’s Boot CD – HDD Diagnostics
Question: I have a bunch of hard drives which I want to sell, so am wiping them using Hiren’s Boot CD. I want to check that the drives are healthy…
Corrupted HDD…?
Question: Hi. I was transferring some files from one HDD to another, around 500 GB of data. (Also transferring files to a third HDD at the same time.) When it…
Western Digital WD800GD
WD800GD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800GD Western Digital Raptor 80GB 10000RPM SATA 7-Pin 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…
Is there any software that can let me burn-in test a new harddisk before i put my data on it?
Question: I bought a new 1.5TB Samsung HDD, and since I heard that all the high capacity drives are very unreliable these days, I wanted to do some kind of…