Seagate ST3160827AS
ST3160827AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160827AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Harddrive – wipe out “hidden areas” like HPA and DCO after malware infection
Question: Background: I got some malware in Windows, possibly a rootkit or bootkit. I didn’t want to take any chances, so foolishly wiped my drive with DBAN (PRNG, 8 pass).…
Seagate ST3160815SV
ST3160815SV Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160815SV hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to password protect an external hard drive without encrypting it?
Question: I carry my external hard drive around with me sometimes, and was wondering if there was a way to password protect the entire drive, with no hassles or anything,…
Seagate ST3160811AS
ST3160811AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160811AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Howto interpret SMART-Attributes?
Question: I want to estimate the health and the remaining lifetime of my hard drive using SMART (in my case gsmartcontrol). However I don’t know how to interpret the attributes.…
Seagate ST3160318AS
ST3160318AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160318AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is it a good idea to have the operating system on a solid state drive?
Question: There is something I don’t quite understand. I know a SSD helps with OS load times, but I’m not sure if all this boost is only noticeable/interesting when booting,…
Seagate ST3160316AS
ST3160316AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160316AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Internal SATA hard disk shows up as removable device on Windows 7
Question: I am running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire M7720 with three internal SATA drives; drive #2 and #3 are on a removable HDD rack. Drive #3 (on the…