Other Reviewing a pile of disks

cracauer@ said:
Well, then file -s it. What are you waiting for?
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I doubt whether file recognises hpfs.

This from a disk that actually has OS/2 installed and I can boot from it.


Code: 
=>       63  625142385  da0  MBR  (298G)
         63      15057    2  !10  [active]  (7.4M)
      15120    4097520    3  !23  (2.0G)
    4112640  621023760    1  ntfs  (296G)
  625136400       6048       - free -  (3.0M)
And just to confirm...

file -s /dev/da0s1


Code: 
/dev/da0s1: DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x54+2, OEM-ID "IBM 4.50", Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/track 63, heads 240, hidden sectors 4112640, sectors 621023760 (volumes > 32 MB), reserved 0x80, serial number 0xca64d5be, label: "           ", FAT (1Y bit by descriptor); NTFS, sectors/track 63, physical drive 0xbe298080, sectors 13264085, $MFT start cluster 5064860730931544064, $MFTMirror start cluster 35322350018643, clusters/RecordSegment 0, serial number 01f
 
Zare said:
Some details - HPFS is not NTFS, no OS/2 or win32 Windows have NTFS root support.
The Jan 1998 dating of the laptop aligns with 4GB HDD size, but it is a possibility Windows 2000 or NT4 have been installed at some point.
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HPFS predates NTFS and AFAIK NTFS was designed around NTFS. IBM and Miicrosoft jointly developed HPFS.

Gordon Letwin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
 
OpenFreeNet said:
Regarding the old HDD I were clearly joking.

Regarding modern HDD and SDD, I updated only the firmware of a mine Samsung SSD using the utility of Samsung, but I don't remember the details. Probably an ISO image.

Sometime I update the BIOS and other firmware of my computers. It depends from the vendor of the computer, but if I'm lucky, it is a procedure that can start from the BIOS menu, and it reads the data from the USB disk.
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I was just wondering if it possible to update firmware of disks.

I have a Toshiba 500GB disk which is just unbelievably slow and though here may be a possibility of a firmware upgrade to quicken it up.
 
balanga said:
I was just wondering if it possible to update firmware of disks.

I have a Toshiba 500GB disk which is just unbelievably slow and though here may be a possibility of a firmware upgrade to quicken it up.
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To update disk firmware you usually use the vendor-supplied tool, which of course is windows only.
 
balanga said:
I was just wondering if it possible to update firmware of disks.

I have a Toshiba 500GB disk which is just unbelievably slow and though here may be a possibility of a firmware upgrade to quicken it up.
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If it is an SSD, there is also the "clean slate"/"secure erase" process. The SSD controller will know that every cell is empty, and it can allocate them in an efficient way.

Obviously the minimum is being sure that a trim command is sent to the SSD every week. Maximum daily. Excessive trim commands can create problems on controllers of consumer disks. This is quick to do, and it does not delete old data.

Also: the ZFS blocksize is aligned or a multiple of the SDD block size?

EDIT: also, if the free space is less than 10%-20% of disk size, the file system can become slow. Some partition utilities, or ZFS setup commands allow to create by default this free space.
 
balanga said:
It's one of these:-

Hard Disk Sentinel - Technical details for disk TOSHIBA MK5061GSYN

Hard disk specification and storage device technical details for disk TOSHIBA MK5061GSYN
www.hdsentinel.com www.hdsentinel.com
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ah ok. Then an HDD. Without benchmarks, and info about the file system, it is hard to tell what is the problem.

BTW, I'm using right now 5 HDD on my home lab: FreeBSD, ZFS, 1 SSD disk as cache, enough RAM for the ARC, and I'm very happy. But modern SSD disks are orders of magnitude faster. I like my configuration because for a single user setting is fast enough and I can buy cheap used HDD.
 
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