How to monitor Windows XP disk I/O?
Question: My Windows environment (main development machine) is running a bit slow with operations involving the hard disk. As an indication, the HD light is constantly flashing and e.g. saving…
Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep?
Question: Is it safe to disconnect a SATA disk during sleep Windows 7? Is the disk powered off when the computer successfully have entered sleep mode? This is not my…
GParted moving partition from beginning of disk to the end of a disk?
Question: Straight forward, as the title says but, I’ve never moved a partition with GParted and I’m concerned that I will damage the drive. ?I have a screen shot. I’m…
Is it possible to set the logical sector size of a USB hard disk drive?
Question: I have two supposedly identical 3TB Western Digital USB hard disk drives. One contains nearly the full 3TB of data. I want the other to be a backup of…
How to *quickly* get a list of files that have bad sectors/blocks/clusters/whatever?
Question: My wife’s Windows 7 (64-bit) box has suddenly developed a SMART “disk is bad” status. ?I’m attempting to copy everything off (no admonishments about lacking a backup regimen, please,…
Is SATA bandwith per Port or per Controller?
Question: I always assumed that it was per Controller channel, and that If I have 4xSATA 3.0Gb/s ports on my Motherboard then I should have a potential 12.0Gb/s of bandwidth.…
Seeking (somewhat) better explanations about supporting >2 TB hard drives
Question: Today while Googling about I stumbled across posts claiming that Seagate plans to ship a 3TB drive sometime later in 2010. Unfortunately, the stuff I looked at all seemed…
SSD cache to minimize HDD spin-up time?
Question: short version first: I’m looking for Linux compatible software which is able to transparently cache HDD writes using an SSD. However, I only want to spin up the HDD…
Windows 7 startup repair with Truecrypt
Question: I have many computers encrypted with Truecrypt 7.1a (current version) with the whole drive encrypted. ?Today one of them shows the Windows 7 splash screen for a moment and…
What are High Fly Writes?
Question: What are High Fly Writes that are tracked by SMART on a hard drives? Does a creeping number indicate issue or upcomming issues? And, why is it not tracked…