Spin down secondary HDD on Windows 7 HP Notebook
Question: I have an HPdv6t quad notebook with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.04 dual booted, both OSes installed on a partitioned Crucial 128 GB SSD. ?I replaced my optical drive…
Harddisk high G-sense error rate and Reallocated Sectors Count
Question: My laptop harddisk is now giving status of warning suddenly and also creates some noise sometimes.I went through speccy and HWinfo, and came to know that “Reallocated Sectors Count…
Seagate ST3146755SS
ST3146755SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3146755SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
SSD with multiple partitions – disk life implications
Question: Each block on a SSD has a finite number of writes. This is mitigated on modern drives by “spreading” the writes around as you use the drive. I’m wondering…
Hdd not showing in bios
Question: Hi all i recently had a power cut while my system was installing an update, unfortunately this corrupted my o/s and i could not repair. i managed to do…
Seagate ST3146854SS
ST3146854SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3146854SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Dual boot setup for two copies of Windows 7
Question: I have two hard drives (one for my business and one for personal). I have installed Windows 7 on each drive. However, I cannot get any sort of dual…
Which is quieter? internal or external HDD
Question: Hi guys I need to get some more storage capacity, about 6TB or so. Which will be quieter and internal or external HDD? Cheers, Andrew Answer: okay an external…
Seagate ST3146356SS
ST3146356SS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 146GB and featuring a SAS interface. All information about the Seagate ST3146356SS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Can I install the free Windows 7/8 -> 10 upgrade on a new empty drive?
Question: With the new Windows 10 coming out soon as a free upgrade, I’d like to know if and how I can install the upgrade on a new HDD. I…