Category Archives: hard disks

how to mount a ram hard disk in Linux

Posted on February 1, 2010 by admin

In this post, i will show you how to create a very fast, 0 latency hard drive from the extra gigabyte or 2 on your system 1- You need to change the boot options to allow this… Since i use … Continue reading →

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USB flash not for database

Posted on January 28, 2010 by admin

SSD disks such as the 128GB supertalent SATA drive are good for DB applications no doubt, but USB flash disks are not, i experimented with MySQL with an operation that probably has seek issues (Latency) So i have a database … Continue reading →

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S.M.A.R.T (SMART) data of hard drives under linux

Posted on February 26, 2009 by admin

The results of the commands on this post are Here On windows, You can use speedfan, under linux you can read the smart data as follows Use the smartctl command 1- Checking for smart support, (All recent hard drives have … Continue reading →

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Western Digital WD1001FALS 1TB drive

Posted on January 28, 2009 by admin

Now this is a good hard drive, i am using it at the minute, and am very happy about it Connected directly to my eVGA – nVIDIA nForce motherboard 630i/7150, Windows reports the hard disk on Windows experience index as … Continue reading →

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BELKIN SATA 2 EXPRESSCARD F5U239

Posted on January 28, 2009 by admin

BELKIN SATA 2 EXPRESSCARD F5U239 with the SILICON IMAGE SIL3132 card So, it may be the fastest to go with your mybook with esata, it is fast, but has many shortcomings. To begin with, you can not boot your laptop … Continue reading →

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