Ars Technica

First bad sector on the disk; is this something to worry about?

I will try to be as short as possible. This hard disk (a Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB SATA2, 7200rpm) is b]less that half a year old[/b] and so far I haven't got any problems with it! But yesterday when ...
Ars Technica

Cloning a disk with bad sectors

I have a 73GB drive with bad sectors I want to copy to a 150GB drive. If it weren't for the bad sectors, I would do a raw sector copy and extend the last volume. I use something like UNIX dd with the ...
ZDNet

Disk Probe tutorial, part 2: Files and boot sectors

In my last tutorial I introduced you to Windows 2000's Disk Probe, a utility that lets you modify almost anything on your system's hard disk on a sector-by-sector basis. Now it's time to start using ...
Computer Weekly

Hard disk drive specifications guide: What to look for when buying disk storage

Moving the head takes a lot longer than waiting for the sector to come around. So low seek times (the time to move the head) are critical to good disk performance. Access time (time to find a sector) ...
ZDNet

What your disk drive isn't telling you

You know you've got a problem when your disk drive goes ka-thunk. A study of 1.53 million disks finds that data errors are much more common than outright failures. You just don't know it. What's worse ...