Asus ux31e zenbook SSD non-standard / cant upgrade hdd?
Question: I bought a ux31e asus zenbook, and the drive crashed last week. I just cancelled an mSata ssd order because I fear asus has used a non standard ssd!!!…
Harddrive – wipe out “hidden areas” like HPA and DCO after malware infection
Question: Background: I got some malware in Windows, possibly a rootkit or bootkit. I didn’t want to take any chances, so foolishly wiped my drive with DBAN (PRNG, 8 pass).…
How to password protect an external hard drive without encrypting it?
Question: I carry my external hard drive around with me sometimes, and was wondering if there was a way to password protect the entire drive, with no hassles or anything,…
Howto interpret SMART-Attributes?
Question: I want to estimate the health and the remaining lifetime of my hard drive using SMART (in my case gsmartcontrol). However I don’t know how to interpret the attributes.…
Is it a good idea to have the operating system on a solid state drive?
Question: There is something I don’t quite understand. I know a SSD helps with OS load times, but I’m not sure if all this boost is only noticeable/interesting when booting,…
Internal SATA hard disk shows up as removable device on Windows 7
Question: I am running Windows 7 on an Acer Aspire M7720 with three internal SATA drives; drive #2 and #3 are on a removable HDD rack. Drive #3 (on the…
Where is S.M.A.R.T. data stored on a HDD?
Question: The S.M.A.R.T. attributes are attributes that a HDD keeps about its health and performance. I know that the MBR is stored at C,H,S (0,0,1) which leaves no free disc…
How do I recover data from my presumably dead hard disk
Question: I have a Seagate ST3500620AS (Barracuda 7200.11) hard disk: SATA 500GB 7200 spindle speed I’ve used this disk for about 2 years now. But today it happened that my…
HDD activity when computer is idle
Question: What can cause HDD activity when computer is left idle? My HDD is quite loud and I want to get rid of the noise when computer is idle. It…
RAID5 vs RAID4 purpose of floating parity
Question: I still did not get why is RAID5 better than RAID4. I understand both computes parity bits that are used for recovering if some failure occurs, the only difference…