How to limit HDD write speed for chosen programs
Question: My HDD is slow 5400RPM and when working with 10GB size files it is impossible to use the computer until that big file finish re-creating a new copy/muxing/writing/etc. depends…
Seagate ST980411AS
ST980411AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980411AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Immediately spin down a HDD on Windows
Question: I have 2 non-system SATA HDDs which are not mapped to a dir and normally kept ‘offline’ on my Windows 7 OS. Even this way they spin up from…
Seagate ST980310AS
ST980310AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST980310AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Can a mirrored (RAID-1) disk be plugged into another system to be read?
Question: If I have disks in a RAID-1 array, can I take one of them out and plug it into a different system to be read? This means, on the…
Seagate STSHD753LJ
STSHD753LJ Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate STSHD753LJ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Seagate ST3750840AS
ST3750840AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3750840AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Does a hard drive remember bad sectors after formatting?
Question: On an NTFS-formatted hard drive with some bad sectors, does the hard drive still remember bad sectors after Windows’s diskpart clean is used to remove the NTFS volume? ?What…
Seagate ST3750641NS
ST3750641NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3750641NS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What is the lifetime of a typical hard disk?
Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? What lifetime can be expected of the typical hard disk? Or are there big differences between different types? And does it make a difference if…