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Question: I’ve noticed that some Western Digital hard drives are now sporting 4K sectors, that is, the sectors are larger: 4096 bytes vs. the long-standing standard of 512 bytes. ?So:…
ST3500414CS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500414CS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question: I have a 256GB SSD disk on which I converted my ext4 root FS to btrfs. I erased the ext4 backup subvolume, enabled compression and defragmented recursively to enable…
ST3500413AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500413AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question:Closed 8 years ago. ? How long will it take to zero fill 1TB (using dd dev/zero)? I’m actually doing two 500G drive simultaneously if it matters. Answer: It depends…
ST3500412AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500412AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question: my laptop’s internal harddrive is a bit slow. I looked at the drive properties and there are two options: Enable write caching on the device Turn off windows write-cache…
ST3500411SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500411SV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question: I’m planning on installing an SSD/HDD combination with the SSD as my boot (Windows 7 x64) drive, and a spinning HDD as a storage drive. Are there any log…
ST3500410SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500410SV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…