Why is gzip slow despite CPU and hard drive performance not being maxed out?
Question: I have some JSON files, 20 GB each, that I want to compress with gzip: gzip file1.json This takes up one full CPU core, all fine. It processes around…
Samsung SP0802N
SP0802N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SP0802N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is it safe to resize Windows partition with GParted?
Question: Is there any chance that my Windows will fail to load after resizing its partition? I remember ~4 years ago i wanted to install Ubuntu as second system on…
Samsung MP0804H
MP0804H Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung MP0804H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What’s the point of hard drives reporting their physical sector size?
Question: I have an SSD that can be configured to report its physical sector size to an OS in two different ways: Option 1: Logical = 512 Bytes, Physical =…
Samsung HM080GC
HM080GC Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung HM080GC hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Does low disk space affect SSD performance?
Question: I was wondering if having less than 5-10GB of free space on an SSD would affect performance. Is it specific to SSD or is it more of an operating…
Samsung SV6004H
SV6004H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV6004H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I determine the sector size on an external hard drive?
Question: Hard drives are transitioning from 512 byte to 4096 byte sector sizes, and it looks like Windows XP won’t support these newer drives without additional software (such as WDalign…
Samsung SV6003H
SV6003H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV6003H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…