My motherboard has SATAI and I was wondering if I could buy SATAII hard drives and use it with it. I expect SATA I transfer speeds, but I wanted to make sure to see if that is okay to buy a new hard drive. Solution: Yes. SATA II interfaces are backwards compatible with SATA I…
HDD Printed circuit board (PCB) with board number 100336321 is usually used on these Seagate hard disk drives: ST3160023AS, 5MT, WU, PN 9W2814-242, FW 3.42, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5 Hard Drive; ST3160023AS, 4LJ, TK, PN 9W2814-007, FW 3.00, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5 Hard Drive; ST3160023AS, 4MT, TK, PN 9W2814-160, FW 3.42, Seagate 160GB SATA 3.5…
We first look at the following two pictures. Picture 1 is the “BIOS CHIP” of the circuit board. When we replace the PCB, we need to swap the “BIOS CHIP” with your original PCB. Picture 2 shows the “Board Number” of the board, and the “Board Number” must be the same! FAQs of 2060-701336-003 PCB…
I understand why “Size on disk” is larger than “Size”. I have three NTFS-formatted drives with the same exact data on it. Their allocation unit is 4096 bytes. The number of files and folders as well as the size matches on all three. However when I open the properties for the root folder of these…
HDD Printed circuit board (PCB) with board number BF41-00324A is usually used on these Samsung hard disk drives: HD256GJ, HD256GJ/B, FW 1AR10002, Samsung 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive; HD256GM, HD256GM/B, FW 1AR10205, Samsung 250GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive; HD322GJ, HD322GJ/D, FW 1AR10001, Samsung 320GB SATA 3.5″ Hard Drive; HD322GJ, HD322GJ/B, FW 1AR10002, Samsung 320GB SATA…
Case:The customer’s original system is Windows7 system. It is still not as convenient as the XP system in use. Customers need to welcome the system and make mistakes.Lost partition information.The previous information of the partition is e;/f:/disk form; F:/2010 training;*. DOC, “video file”” Solution:After being tested by senior engineers
Case:The Daton 8G memory card data cannot be copied. Solution:This failure is generally caused by the file system errors, or the storage card is caused by a bad sector.In the environment of the fault hard disk to the Server 2003 environment, the full mirror image of the memory card is stored on the professional server…
This question is a result of the issue stated in this SU-question. Please read it beforehand. I have upgraded my OS from Windows Vista Home Premium x64 to Windows 7 Home Premium x64. It’s a legal upgrade. Upgrade was successful except one problem: Windows 7 does not recognize the Media Card Reader of my desktop…
A solid-state hard drive (SSD) is a data storage device that uses solid-state memory to store persistent data. An SSD emulates a hard disk drive interface, thus easily replacing it in most applications. An SSD using SRAM or DRAM (instead of flash memory) is often called a RAM-drive, not to be confused with a RAM disk.
The original usage of the term solid-state (from solid-state physics) refers to the use of semiconductor devices rather than electron tubes, but in this context, has been adopted to distinguish solid-state electronics from electromechanical devices as well. With no moving parts, solid-state drives are less fragile than hard disks and are also silent (unless a cooling fan is used); as there are no mechanical delays, they usually enjoy low access time and latency.
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A look at the NAND itself. How an SSD works at the lowest levels:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo/ […] 9&Itemid=1
http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/ […] hp?t=65372
Write caching, wear levelling and the importance of partition alignment:
http://www.lostcircuits.com/mambo/ […] 2&Itemid=1
A broad overview of everything SSD (including TRIM):
http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3531
http://anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3631 (A follow-up of the previous Anandtech article. Touches on a few more details, but it’s more of a review of OCZ drives than a good overview of SSDs. Worth reading if your SSD has an Indillinx controller.)
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