Seagate ST940814AS
ST940814AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST940814AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Does multi-platter hard-drive use all of their heads to read simultaneously?
Question: Suppose we have a harddisk with 2 platters with characteristics below: ? Rotational rate: 10, 000 RPM ?Avg sectors/track: 1000 ?Surfaces: 4 ?Sector size: 512 bytes I was reading…
Seagate ST940210AS
ST940210AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST940210AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How do hard drive diagnostic tools know if a sector is bad?
Question: When I run into a a hard drive that may be failing, I scan it using ViVARD, which reliably lets me know if the drive needs replacing. How do…
Seagate ST3400833AS
ST3400833AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3400833AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Cloned disk – duplicate disk signature, how to resolve?
Question: I have cloned a hard drive to an SSD using Clonezilla. ?Both drives were of identical size, and the process appears to have worked successfully. I can boot into…
Seagate ST3400832NS
ST3400832NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3400832NS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is it safe to use an SSD for Backup purposes?
Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. ? ?? Closed 6 years ago. ????…
Seagate ST3400820AS
ST3400820AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3400820AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Do hard drives need a GUID partition table (GPT) to boot in UEFI mode?
Question: Is EFI booting something hardware specific? I have a desktop motherboard with a UEFI Bios, but I can only boot from USB drives in “UEFI” mode. Both the DVD…