Category: Questions

Question: I need to connect my hard drive from my Lenovo T470p to my desktop, but it uses this wierd connector. ?It looks like the standard wide SATA, but there’s…

Question: I understand that there is such a thing as a disk controller which contains a buffer, but was wondering if the CPU reads directly from this buffer, or whether…

Question: Companies try to zero-fill their hard drives several times when they decommission them, why? Surely one pass of zero-fill would do the job exactly as they need. I understand…

Question: I’m upgrading my Windows 7 laptop to a new hard drive. How can I clone or image the old hard drive over to the new hard drive, so that…

Question: Im gettings strange error messages in the terminal. This is the output of dmesg: ata4.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x78 SErr 0x400000 action 0x6 frozen ata4.00: irq_stat 0x08000000, interface…

Question: I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements – 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick…

Question: I heard it’s not recommended because of all the writing on the drive? (My friend wants to know) Answer: You don’t download bittorrent data at SSD speeds (usually). ?Why…

Question: I have remote access (including root access) to a Ubuntu 9 server, but can’t inspect it physically or reboot it. I want to find out the manufacturer and model…

Question: I am looking for a new internal hard drive for laptop and found the terms like Bare drive and OEM drive. I searched the net and found that bare…

Question: It seems that there are many tools out there for Mac OS X that test a hard drive for bad blocks by doing a Read/Verify pass. That is, they…