HDDScan is a Free test tool for hard disk drives, USB flash, RAID volumes and SSD drives. The utility can check your disk for bad blocks in various test modes (reading, verification, erasing), predicting disk degradation before you have to call data recovery service.

HDDScan Download Page. Download HDDScan Utility Your download should automatically begin in a few seconds, alternatively, you can click here.

In this article we will describe logical data recovery from a hard disk drive or other storage device in perfect physical conditions. If you suspect your storage device has any kind of physical damage - do not try to use any recovery or test software on it.

The goal of this article is to show you how a modern Hard Disk Drive or HDD is built. What are its main parts, how they look and what are these parts names and abbreviations. As an example we are going to disassemble 3.5" SATA drive.

This article shows how modern hard drives can read and write data. From this article you will learn about zones, tracks, sectors, servo system, variable density and some over stuff.

2020年4月12日 · What WD and HGST hard drives are SMR? May 4th 2020 in HDD Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology helps hard drive manufacturers to produce HDDs with larger capacity.

2020年5月4日 · Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) technology helps hard drive manufacturers to produce HDDs with larger capacity. But it is not recommended to use SMR drives for applications with significant load (for example in NAS boxes or for 24x7 use).

2020年4月12日 · It could be possible to make hard drives with density of 5Tbit per square inch just using HAMR (and this means 30TB 3.5" five-platter-drive). But technologies are evolving and manufacturers thinking about creating special bit patterned media which with HAMR reinforcement could hit 50Tbit per square inch record.

2020年11月15日 · First you'd need to get real model and serial number of your hard drive. You could use HDDScan and "Drive ID" feature. Once you have that information, use the following table.

2020年4月19日 · Using MAMR technology allows hard drive manufacturers to take ferromagnetic materials with greater coercivity, and it means that it would be possible to reduce the size of magnetic domains without causing a superparamagnetic effect.