HDD activity when computer is idle
Question: What can cause HDD activity when computer is left idle? My HDD is quite loud and I want to get rid of the noise when computer is idle. It…
Seagate ST9160827AS
ST9160827AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160827AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
RAID5 vs RAID4 purpose of floating parity
Question: I still did not get why is RAID5 better than RAID4. I understand both computes parity bits that are used for recovering if some failure occurs, the only difference…
Seagate ST9160823AS
ST9160823AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160823AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to monitor Windows XP disk I/O?
Question: My Windows environment (main development machine) is running a bit slow with operations involving the hard disk. As an indication, the HD light is constantly flashing and e.g. saving…
Seagate ST91608220AS
ST91608220AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST91608220AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep?
Question: Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep Windows 7? Is the disk powered off when the computer successfully have entered sleep mode? This is not my…
Seagate ST9160418ASG
ST9160418ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160418ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
GParted moving partition from beginning of disk to the end of a disk?
Question: Straight forward, as the title says but, I’ve never moved a partition with GParted and I’m concerned that I will damage the drive. ?I have a screen shot. I’m…
Seagate ST9160414ASG
ST9160414ASG Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9160414ASG hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…