How to list all serial numbers on your hard drives in your Linux PC.
How to list all HDD serial numbers on Linux easily.
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A one-liner that will list only the mounted removable drives on your system.
This command will only list the mounted removable drives on your Linux system. The ones under /dev/sd*. This is very easy to use. 4.4 Mon Jan 13 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ cat /etc/mtab | grep /dev/s[a-f]/* /dev/sda2 /media/jason/Seagate\040Expansion\040Drive fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0 /dev/sdb4 /media/jason/My\040Stuff fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 04.4 Mon Jan 13…
Read MoreHow to view comprehensive information about your hard drive using Linux.
The smartctl utility for Linux is the best way to get comprehensive information about all of your hard drives in your Linux system. This can be used to get the health of your drives and see if they need replacing. This is how you do it. 4.4 Mon Mar 25…
Read MoreSome very useful Powershell tricks.
Print the current date and time with Powershell. "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date)"{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) This is an example of what this will give you. PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) Tuesday – 08:42:05 – 30/1/18PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss -…
Read MoreWill we ever completely replace the hard drive?
I am wondering, if due to the popularity of the SSD solid state hard drives, are we going to see the end of the conventional hard disk with metal platters and read-write heads that skitter over the surface floating on a cushion of air. The SSD drives are getting better…
Read MoreSeagate ships new 8 terabyte hard disk drive.
Seagate company have shipped a new 8 terabyte hard disk drive; this offers a lot of storage space for the price. The price is not available, but the TCO is claimed to be the lowest of any hard disk drive on the market. I am waiting to find out how…
Read MoreHard drive technology from the early days to the latest super capacity drives.
The hard disk drive has come a long way since the first one I used, a 10 megabyte capacity beast. In 1979, you would have paid US$5,350,00 for an external hard drive housing that could store 10 megabytes of data. That would have been a luxury item back then. Another…
Read MoreA new Ambiance theme for your Linux Mint MATE desktop. And other theme goodness for you.
New Ambiance theme available for the Linux Mint MATE desktop. http://gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Ambiance+Crunchy?content=151181. This is a new version of the Ubuntu Ambiance theme for the Gnome Shell and Linux Mint 15 MATE desktops. This theme is very attractive and well worth a download for any Linux desktop user. The breadcrumbs in Nautilus…
Read MoreKeeping your data safe by backing up your data. A good hard disk and external housing for backups.
Backing up your precious data to protect your files is essential; the Seagate range of hard drives provide a reliable solution for backing up your data or a large capacity hard drive for installing Linux to. I remember I installed Mandrake Linux once onto a 80 Gigabyte hard disk and…
Read MoreLinux in the movies and television. Some famous appearances.
In the television series “Heroes” a KDE desktop was spotted running the Kopete application. A screenshot below. This is a Mandriva distribution displaying part of the Kmix window and a live webcam application. We all know about the famous scene in the Matrix Reloaded where Trinity is cracking the Matrix…
Read MoreSSD Solid State Disks taking over from the traditional hard disk with moving parts that can wear out.
The Solid State Drives that are now available, with no moving parts compared to a traditional hard disk are the faster alternative to the traditional hard disk drives that are taking over as very fast boot drives. They do not have the capacity of a traditional hard disk, an SSD…
Read MoreThe old computers that led us into the computing revolution. The 10,000 dollar PDP-8.
This is the PDP-8 computer. This beast had 4 Kilobytes of RAM and was quite the purchase back in the day. You could program in FORTRAN on this machine, entering code with a teletype input. The more powerful PDP-9 had twice the RAM, 8 Kilobytes to be precise and cost…
Read MoreDick Smith Electronics selling used hard drives as new. Ooops.
Dick Smith Electronics, a major Australian retailer have been accused of selling used and malware infected hard drives as new, endangering the computers owned by consumers. In one instance a preacher bought an external hard drive and when he plugged it in he was greeted by a pornographic video. You…
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