Seagate ST6000AS0002
ST6000AS0002 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST6000AS0002 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I resolve the error “MediaKit reports partition (map) too small”?
Question: I am unable to expand my Mac’s hard disk. diskutility reports this error: ? MediaKit reports partition (map) too small How can I resolve this? Answer: If you start…
Seagate ST3640623AS
ST3640623AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3640623AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why does a SATA hard drive have jumpers?
Question: Back in the days of PATA hard drives, a person used jumpers on the drive to indicate whether the drive was the master or the slave of the channel,…
Seagate ST3640330AS
ST3640330AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3640330AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is it faster to have two smaller hard drives or one big one?
Question: Assuming that the drives all have the same RPM and overall same specs except for storage space, would it be faster to install two hard drives together or just…
Seagate ST3640323AS
ST3640323AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3640323AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
Question: I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an “offline uncorrectable sector” appeared in the SMART status. 198 Offline_Uncorrectable ?0x0030 ?200 ?200 ?000 ?Old_age ?Offline…
Seagate ST9640423AS
ST9640423AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 640GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9640423AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows?
Question: Can I enable AHCI after installing Windows 7 in a SATA drive that was on IDE mode? Answer: You need to make the msahci and/or IastorV drivers be loaded…