Seagate ST9500320AS
ST9500320AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9500320AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What do the current, worst, and threshold SMART values mean?
Question: I have a 2TB internal hard drive that might be failing. It spends several minutes at 100% usage when I first turn it on since I installed Windows 10,…
Seagate ST500VT000
ST500VT000 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500VT000 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What is TRIM exactly?
Question: From the Wikipedia page of TRIM I get the impression that TRIM was introduced to lower the writes to a SSD, but letter the file system taking case of…
Seagate ST500UM001
ST500UM001 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500UM001 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Partition used and available size in bytes
Question: I’m not a linux pro, and maybe I have overlooked something in the docs, but: df -ah, for instance, returns automatically largest unit: M / G / T. simply…
Seagate ST500LX025
ST500LX025 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LX025 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Windows7 hardlink over two different drives
Question: I am trying to create a hardlink on my C drive that points to a file on my D drive. I open up a terminal with Administrator privileges and…
Seagate ST500LX012
ST500LX012 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LX012 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why does sector-number addressing in CHS start at sector 1 and not 0?
Question: Before LBA was introduced, why does CHS start at 0,0,1 and not 0,0,0 ? Answer: Unfortunately, this is just how the CHS addressing scheme, popular at the time, was…