Seagate ST3400755SS
ST3400755SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3400755SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Is a computer’s DRAM size not as important once we get a Solid State Drive?
Question: I am thinking of getting a Dell X11 netbook, and it can go up to 8GB of DRAM, together with a 256GB Solid State Drive. So in that case,…
Seagate ST33000650SS
ST33000650SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST33000650SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Chkdsk consistently failing due to no free space but it has 90% free space
Question: I have a drive that I suspect is a bit borked but none of the sensors or alerts have gone off on it. Regardless I decided to move important…
Seagate ST936701SS
ST936701SS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 36GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST936701SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Are laptop hard drives fairly generic, or do I need to be careful to get the right one for my computer model?
Question: I have a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop, and the hard drive is failing and I’d like to get a new one. ? What I’m wondering is, do I need…
Seagate ST3300657SS
ST3300657SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3300657SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Hard drive issues – SpinRite vs. S.M.A.R.T
Question: The Toshiba hard drive in a Sony VAIO laptop went bad. I put in a Western Digital drive (WD1600BEVS-60RST0, firmware v4.01G04) from an HP laptop. I ran SpinRite at…
Seagate ST3300655SS
ST3300655SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 300GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3300655SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Making sense of the 2TB MBR partition limit
Question: The MBR partition table supports a “partition size” of 4,294,967,295 sectors. Assuming the standard 512-byte sector, this translates to a total limit of ?2,199,023,255,040 bytes = 2TiB, or just…