Why do M.2 Hard Disks run so hot?
Question: I have a Samsung 970 Pro 1TB M.2 Hard disks and regularly it runs at over 50*C. I know its not the drive i had a 512GB WD Black…
Western Digital WD10EALS
WD10EALS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10EALS-00F6B0 Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
What is the difference between red and green hard disk activity in Oracle’s VirtualBox?
Question: Here are some screenshots, so you know what I’m talking about: Red Activity Green Activity Answer: One is reading from the disk (green I think; the same color you’ll…
Hard drive partition
Question: I have 2 hard drives, one is WD Black 500GB(current windows drive) and other is 2TB WD Blue(data drive). Both drives has 2 partition each. I wanted to change…
Western Digital WD10EADX
WD10EADX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10EADX Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB 7200RPM (intellipower) SATA 6GB/s 7-Pin 32MB Cache…
What is the quickest way to tell whether a SATA cable is bad?
Question: To check whether a SATA cable is bad, currently I’d run a disk benchmark and look at the SMART attribute “UltraDMD CRC Error Count.” ?However, that attribute seems to…
New Hard Drive and it has a weird noise.
Question: So, I just got a new hard drive to replace my old one. The new hard drive is a seagate compute 2 TB (ST2000DM008). I hear a weird noise…
Western Digital WD10EADS
WD10EADS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10EADS-11PSB1 Western Digital 1TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Install Visual Studio 2010 on SSD drive, or HDD for better performance?
Question: I’m going to be installing Visual Studio 2010. ?I already have my source code on the SSD. ?For best performance, especially time to open the solution and compiling time,…
New USB 3.0 external hard drive only working on USB 3.0 ports
Question: I got a new external hard drive and tried it on my pc with 2.0 ports, but it didn’t recognize the hard drive and the hard drive started making…