A Broken Western Digital 1TB Hard Disk
It is a WD10EXEZ SATA,64MB Cache 1.0TB hard disk. I bought it in the end of 2012. Now it is almost three years. I found it is not working yesterday morning. The Windows 7 can not found the hard drive...
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VirtualBox resize hard disk error: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED
There is a error when I tried to resize the VirtualBox hard disk, or vdi file. Progress state: VBOX_E_NOT_SUPPORTED VBoxManage.exe: error: Resize hard disk operation for this format is not implemented yet! The command I used to resize vdi...
Replace SSD on Acer Aspire One ZG5
Acer Aspire One ZG5 has 8GB SSD. This SSD has poor performance as indicated on Wiki. Intel Z-P230, model SSDPAMM0008G1. This SSD has been criticized for its slow read and write speed. Intel lists the drive’s maximum speeds as 38...
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB WD10EZEX
In this new year season, I bought a set of desktop hardware and built a new PC. Here is the hard drive. Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB, SATA 3 (6GB/s), 7200RPM, 64MB Cache, 3.5in. It is designed for desktop, called...
What is GPT
GPT stands for GUID Partition Table. The widespread MBR partitioning scheme, dating from the early 1980s, imposed limitations which affect the use of modern hardware. Intel therefore developed a new partition-table format in the late 1990s as part of what...
SSD: SLC vs MLC
Based Wikipedia, A solid-state drive (SSD) (sometimes improperly referred to as a “solid-state disk” or “electronic disk”) is a data storage device that uses integrated circuit assemblies as memory to store data persistently. Yes, SSD disk has no moving parts....
Video card driver makes Windows 2008 R2 Blue Screen
Yes, it is true. I have see so many blue screens on a brand new PC server with Windows 2008 Server R2. The hardware including following items: Intel i5 2500 CPU 1TB SATA2 Hard Disk ASUS P8P67 R3 mother board...
Diskeeper Pro Premier 2010
I downloaded the trial version of Diskeeper Pro Premier 2010 and installed it on my Desktop. There are a few features I like. New! IntelliWrite™ fragmentation prevention technology. IntelliWrite prevents up to 85% of the fragmentation every system suffers from....
Dlink DNS-323 and Western Digital WD15EADS Caviar Green 1.5TB
I bought a NAS, Network-attached Storage. Actually I bought two items. One is the NAS enclosure, or Dlink DNS-323, 2-Bay Network Storage Enclosure. It is a very old product. Start to sell about two years ago. The other one is...
R-Drive III external hard disk adapter
I bought a adapter or converter which can convert an IDE hard disk or SATA disk to a USB external drive. If I need to test a HD, just connect it on R-Drive, and plug the usb to computer. The...
SSD drive
I am shopping around for an netbook or light notebook. The main job is to read ebook, internet browse, blog writing. The very interesting thing is I found some netbook has an option of drive, 8G SSD drive or 160G...
Christmas gift is a set of Hardware
I bought the new hardware to upgrade my Desktop. Actually it is not an upgrade. It is almost brand new one. I ordered them online with Ncix.com Let me show you what I got. 31195 Palit Radeon HD 3870 512MB...
Maxtor 200GB Harddisk
You may be noticed that this Blog can not be accessed yesterday. It is caused by hard disk failure. The old SATA It is just passed one year. Based on the original one year warranty. This drive is out of...
Data Recovery in Dynamic Volume
I do some search in the data recovery tools. Not for regular one. I need a tool which can recover the data in a dynamic volume. This is a harddisk used in the Windows 2003 Server. I have two disks...
This site has problem over one day
Because of the power supply failed on saturday morning, the site is down over 24 hours. I recovered over 99% data and support plat of this server. After this crash, I am so happy I have the latest offline backup...