What does TRIM on an HDD mean?
Question: I was examining a new hard drive when I noticed something peculiar: It’s a 1 TB HDD from Seagate, and CrystalDiskInfo shows that it supports TRIM! AFAIK, TRIM is…
Seagate ST3250824NS
ST3250824NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250824NS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Rescuing a hdd with bad sectors: dd vs gddrescue
Question: Somewhere on the internets I read that gddrescue is superior to dd at least in terms of being able to distinguish between the amount of disk reads performed on…
Seagate ST3250820SV
ST3250820SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250820SV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is there a clean way to obtain exclusive access to a physical partition under Windows?
Question: I’m trying, under Windows 7, to run a virtual machine with VMWare Player from an OS installed on a physical partition. However, when I boot the virtual machine, VMWare…
Seagate ST3250624NS
ST3250624NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250624NS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Defrag Terms Description
Question: There are 3 terms used in the Windows defrager. Relocated, consolidated and defragmented. Can someone give me some clarification of them? Answer: The only explanation I have found is…
Seagate ST3250624AS
ST3250624AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250624AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
External Hard Disk is not accessible. “The disk structure is corrupted and unreadable”
Question: I have a 1 TB AgentGoFlex Seagate external HDD. Lately it was causing some issues like a few folders which had data were not showing any files.? A?few folders…
Seagate ST3250620NS
ST3250620NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250620NS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…