Seagate ST980816AS
ST980816AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980816AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why are my hard drives failing?
Question: I have a small Ubuntu server running at home, with 2 hard drives. There are two software raids (raid1) on the disks, managed by mdadm,which I believe is irrelevant,…
Seagate ST980814AS
ST980814AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980814AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is it possible to format a hard-drive too often?
Question: Every couple of months I find my computer becomes sluggish, so I format the hard drive then reinstall Windows to keep it running fast. I’ve been doing this for…
Seagate ST980813AS
ST980813AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980813AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive?
Question: I’ve seen programs in the past that were able to check the SMART status of a hard disk drive but it wasn’t easy for me to find. Also, I…
Seagate ST980811AS
ST980811AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980811AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Are partitions to the inner/outer edge significantly faster
Question: Some linux dual/multi-boot tutorials / general partitioning tutorials say that the inner side of a hard disk is faster than the outer side so partitions towards the outside tend…
Seagate ST980412AS
ST980412AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980412AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to limit HDD write speed for chosen programs
Question: My HDD is slow 5400RPM and when working with 10GB size files it is impossible to use the computer until that big file finish re-creating a new copy/muxing/writing/etc. depends…