Seagate ST500LX003
ST500LX003 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LX003 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I verify the health of hard disks using a Synology NAS?
Question: I’ll receive my first NAS (a Synology DS413) and three hard disks tomorrow. Of course I’d like to check if everything’s fine with the disks before setting up RAID…
Seagate ST500LT032
ST500LT032 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LT032 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to wipe unallocated disk space in Windows
Question: Due to the nature of how filesystems like NTFS work, files that are deleted “permanently” from within Windows aren’t immediately deleted – they’re simply marked as deleted from the…
Seagate ST500LT025
ST500LT025 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LT025 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Why are most of 2TB hard disks released 5400 RPM?
Question: Most of 1TB Hard disks run as 7200 RPM recently.But why 2TB is not? Few disks have a 7200 rpm specification.Is there a technical reason? Answer: It’s not just…
Seagate ST500LT015
ST500LT015 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LT015 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Windows: How can I see disk space used over time?
Question: I’m looking for a way to capture and visualize used disk space over time. All I need is one number– bytes used on disk. I store a lot of…
Seagate ST500LT012
ST500LT012 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST500LT012 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How can I render an SSD permanently inoperable with no chance of data recovery?
Question: On platter drives, when it is time to dispose of them, a degaussing takes care of the data and in most cases erases the factory pre-recorded servo tracks rendering…