I was able to breathe a major sigh of relief today. My aftermarket Solid State Drive (SSD) upgrade, installed in one of my laptops, lost its filesystem. I don’t know yet if the drive itself has failed yet, but so far… not looking great for the drive. Media reports peg SSD short-term failure rate at […]
Seagate has issued a new firmware update for Momentus XT owners, version SD28. If you are a Momentus XT owner (like myself), you can breath a sigh of relief and update immediately… after backing up, of course. This firmware update will hopefully, hopefully tie up some painful loose ends that have stifled the life (thus […]
Here’s an oddball for Sunday. Seagate quietly posted SeaTools for Windows version 1.2.0.5. It’s such a small update, that the download page still claims that the current version is 1.2.0.4. However, this tiny update packs a big sour grape for those who care about their technology. See, this update only appears to have one function; […]
I’ve seen a lot of people say that SSDs eliminate the need to defragment your hard drive. And, these people almost made me second guess myself… almost. While it is true that SSDs eliminate one reason to defrag, and that reason is that hard drives must waste time moving across platters and physical sectors of […]
Hitachi has posted an update to their Drive Fitness Test (DFT). This is one of my preferred hard drive test tools, because unlike drive makers, they don’t block other company’s hard drives. The tool runs both a SMART scan as well as a full sector scan, and a few other notable tests. If you have […]