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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…
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…
Question: How does a full read/write surface scan by ‘badblocks’ differ from the built in SMART Extended self test? It seems like they are both full surface scans, so why…
MP0603H Samsung 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 60GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung MP0603H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question: I have noticed that when installing Ubuntu some people create multiple partitions for directories. Like one for root, one for home, one for boot. What is the advantage to…
SV4002H Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV4002H hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question: I have scripts that expect specific drive letters for hard drives. Windows sometimes assigns the different drive letters (e.g. I expected my Maxtor drive to be E:, but it’s…
SV0411N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SV0411N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Question: Computer files aren’t actually removed when they are deleted on Windows. ?The address pointer is simply released and that space freed for overwrite later. For sensitive information, it is…
SP0411N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 40GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Samsung SP0411N hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…