Is my hard disk failing?
Question: I have a problem with my computer: I’m using Windows 7 x64, and when I try to acces the Downloads folder, it takes a long time. After waiting for…
Seagate ST3000LM016
ST3000LM016 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3000LM016 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
BitLocker takes days on an empty external disk / Is “Encrypt used disk space only” available on Windows 7?
Question: I have Windows 7 x64 and a brand new USB external 2 TB hard drive. I formatted it and I confirm it’s empty. I enabled BitLocker, and two things…
Seagate ST3360832AS
ST3360832AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 360GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3360832AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Bad Sectors on Hard Drive
Question: I run check disk pretty regularly on my hard drive, and lately it’s been saying that I have some bad sectores (66, to be exact). I’ve run smartctl and…
Seagate ST3360320AS
ST3360320AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 360GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3360320AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What’s the difference between a disk and a drive?
Question: Would this make the term ‘disk drive’ a slight misnomer? Also, I thought RAM was equivalent to the term ‘volatile’ memory, but apprently ‘hard disk drives’ are also RAM…
Seagate ST3320418AS
ST3320418AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3320418AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to get total running time of a hard disk
Question: In order to do disk rotation in a server, I need to know the current running time (online) time of a disk on a Linux CentOS release 6.3 (Final)…
Seagate ST3320833AS
ST3320833AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3320833AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…