Everything about the HDD!
Got a question about hard drives? You’ve come to the right place. This category is dedicated to answering the most common (and complex) queries about HDD technology.
Question: I would like to add more disks than my main PSU can handle, so I plugged them on another PSU (Corsair VS450) but it does not power them as…
Question: I bought a new laptop without windows. Now i want to install windows 8. I formated entire harddisk(file format = NTFS) and then tried to install windows 8. When…
Question: I have a 2 TB drive which was filled to >99%. I ve delete the partitions with fidsk and formatted them with mkfs.ext4. So as far as I know,…
Question: I’ve got a new hard disk. On the label there is a description of the jumper settings: One of them is: ? Jumpered pins 5 and 6 enables 1.5GB…
Question: The light blinks faintly about once a second. It is slowly driving me insane. How do I find out which program is causing this, so I can disable it?…
Question:How do heads find the data stored on a hard disk drive? ?? ??(1 answer) ?? ???Closed 3 years ago. ? I was always wondering how a hard drive finds…
Question: Let’s say I have two 2TB HDDs and I want to start my first ZFS zpool. Is it possible to create a RAIDZ with just those two discs, giving…
Question: I have a 2TB internal hard drive that might be failing. It spends several minutes at 100% usage when I first turn it on since I installed Windows 10,…
Question: From the Wikipedia page of TRIM I get the impression that TRIM was introduced to lower the writes to a SSD, but letter the file system taking case of…
Question: I’m not a linux pro, and maybe I have overlooked something in the docs, but: df -ah, for instance, returns automatically largest unit: M / G / T. simply…