Can anyone confirm whether Western Digital drives are now just rebadged HGST?
Question: I bought 4x Western Digital Gold 4 TB (WD4002FYYZ) drives, a couple years ago, and they’re awful. They sat around, and I now finally got around to using them.…
Western Digital WD5002ABYS
WD5002ABYS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5002ABYS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 hard drive not recognized by Linux, causes fdisk to hang
Question: I’m running Kubuntu 12.04. I have a brand new, never used Seagate 3TB ST3000DM001 hard drive. It’s an internal drive. I installed it in a USB enclosure. When I…
Need Help Identify TVS Diodes & How To Test
Question: My Seagate doesn’t spin up. I need help identifying TVS diodes on HD PCB and how to test them. I have a multimeter but unsure which pos/neg leads go…
Western Digital WD5002AALX
WD5002AALX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5002AALX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Low RAM in Debian/Ubuntu causes complete hang with disk thrashing
Question: I’ve been having this severe performance issue, both in Ubuntu 11.10, and Debian Wheezy: If one process uses up a great deal of RAM (say, 3700 MB out of…
Toshiba DT01ACA100 not working/recognized
Question: Hi everybody, I finished building my PC, I habe 3 SATA devices (1 SSD and 2 equal HDD), also onedie M.2-One HDD is not working, its not recognized in…
Western Digital WD5002AAEX
WD5002AAEX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5002AAEX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size?
Question: How do I find out Hard Disk Cache / Buffer Size ? ? Answer: To find your hard drive’s model number: Method 1: Open the Device Manager in the…
Cooked HDDs
Question: So I was a victim of the classic wrong-PSU-cable and fried 3 HDDs with different situations: One 8 year old WD Black with SMOOTH chips burnt out and doesn’t…