Seagate ST500UM001
ST500UM001 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500UM001 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Partition used and available size in bytes
Question: I’m not a linux pro, and maybe I have overlooked something in the docs, but: df -ah, for instance, returns automatically largest unit: M / G / T. simply…
Seagate ST500LX025
ST500LX025 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LX025 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Windows7 hardlink over two different drives
Question: I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and…
Seagate ST500LX012
ST500LX012 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LX012 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why does sector-number addressing in CHS start at sector 1 and not 0?
Question: Before LBA was introduced, why does CHS start at 0,0,1 and not 0,0,0 ? Answer: Unfortunately, this is just how the CHS addressing scheme, popular at the time, was…
Seagate ST500LX003
ST500LX003 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LX003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I verify the health of hard disks using a Synology NAS?
Question: I’ll receive my first NAS (a Synology DS413) and three hard disks tomorrow. Of course I’d like to check if everything’s fine with the disks before setting up RAID…
Seagate ST500LT032
ST500LT032 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LT032 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to wipe unallocated disk space in Windows
Question: Due to the nature of how filesystems like NTFS work, files that are deleted “permanently” from within Windows aren’t immediately deleted – they’re simply marked as deleted from the…