HDD FAQs

WD5002AAEX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5002AAEX Western Digital Caviar Black 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gbps 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Internal…

How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size?

Question: How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size ? ? Answer: To find your hard drive’s model number: Method 1: Open the Device Manager in the…

Cooked HDDs

Question: So I was a victim of the classic wrong-PSU-cable and fried 3 HDDs with different situations: One 8 year old WD Black with SMOOTH chips burnt out and doesn’t…

HDDs

Western Digital WD5001ABYS

WD5001ABYS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5001ABYS Western Digital Re2 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile…

Rescuing an encrypted hard drive

Question: A friend of mine asked me to encrypt the hard drive on his netbook (running Windows Vista) so I used TrueCrypt’s full-system encryption to do it. All is well.…

HDD uncorrectable sector count reset itself to 0

Question: Soooooo, this is very odd, my system just froze and I had to manually reset it, upon booting up I checked my HDD in case some more sectors had…

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Western Digital WD5001AALS

WD5001AALS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5001AALS-00WTA0 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…

Beeping Hard Disk – Seagate 250GB Momentus 5400.6

Question: I have been trying to repair a laptop that simply beeps instead of booting. After taking it apart I have now realised that it is the hard disk beeping.…

Identify TVS Diode and Best Way to Test 2.5 SATA