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MySQL tables on external hard drive

I have a large amount of text data I need to import into MySQL. I'm doing this on a MacBook …

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Why is average disk seek time one-third of the full seek time?

I have read in many books and papers, considering disk performance, that the average seek time is roughly one-third of …

file-io io hard-drive
Finding what hard drive sectors occupy a file

I'm looking for a nice easy way to find what sectors occupy a given file. My language preference is C#. …

hard-drive lookup-tables
How can I read HDD S.M.A.R.T registers in C# .NET and obtain all the associated values for that register?

How can I read HDD's SMART registers in .NET using WMI, or another way, which results in having the following …

c# .net wmi hard-drive
What is the easiest way in C# to check if hard disk is SSD without writing any file on hard disk?

I need to check in C# if a hard disk is SSD (Solid-state drive), no seek penalty? I used: ManagementClass …

c# .net hardware hard-drive
Wipe Free space on hard disk drive using C#

I have been tasked to overwrite all the free space on a few laptops 3 times. I know there are some …

c# .net security hard-drive
How many threads for reading and writing to the hard disk?

i am developing an application that gathers a list with all the files of the hard drive and also afterwards …

c# multithreading hard-drive
How to erase a Hard Disk Drive

This is an odd question, but here it goes. I would like to write a program to flash my external …

c linux erase hard-drive
Get the real serial number of Hard-Disk in computer using java

I've been trying this code, but I wonder the output is not the serial number (SN). The result only contains …

java hard-drive serial-number