Jan 10, 2008 · I'd like to know the age of my hard drives without having to open my case and physically look at the labels. I was hoping this could be done from the command line somehow with PowerShell …

Nov 14, 2015 · Hard drive and hard disk drive refer to the data storage elements plus all the electronics that support, or drive, the reading and writing of data to/from storage.

May 19, 2011 · I had an old Seagate 1TB HDD which has been on its last legs for a while, and following my data-paranoid traditions, I never throw away complete hard drives. What I do is remove the …

Apr 13, 2017 · Hard drive, “hard disk, or the part that contains the hard disk … a computer drive for hard disks, often, specif., such a drive as distinguished from a floppy-disk drive in the same computer”.

The word you are looking for is "magnetic" or "mechanical" (i.e. a mechanical disk drive). The word "disk drive" has become very ubiquitous and a layman is likely to apply the term to other storage …

May 18, 2016 · Permanent and working memory, however, are not visible. But hard drive is short for hard disk drive, a term that arose to contrast with floppy disk drive, which used floppy disks. Floppy …

Nov 15, 2004 · Often the size of the drive, 5.25" or 3.5", is based on the physical size of the platters. Most drives have two or more platters. The larger capacity drives have more platters. They are …

Oct 9, 1999 · A couple of weeks ago I got a new hard drive for some mass storage (Seagate archive 8TB). It worked perfectly fine -- speeds were normal and it passed any test I ran it through. However, …

Jun 5, 2017 · Hi, So I have this Seagate backup plus external hard drive. It got disconnected by accident and wouldn't show up at all in My Computer after that. The lights are working, the disk is spinning …

May 18, 2009 · New RAID1 array is set up using DriveA as the "master copy". I basically want to know if a RAID1 array can be rebuilt in another motherboard with another controller, as well as used as a …