What happens when a flash drive wears out?
Question: Flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles, after which it fails. ?What happens when it fails? ?Is it like a hard drive, where a failed write is…
WD MyBook stopped working. What can be done?
Question: I have a Western Digital MyBook that stopped working. I’m not sure if it’s a I or II. The symptoms are it doesn’t light up anymore, and the power…
Western Digital WD5000ABPS
WD5000ABPS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000ABPS Western Digital Re2-Gp 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 7-Pin 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Windows 7 Loading Very Slow
Question: I’ve had a problem that only started to occur yesterday. When I boot into Windows 7 and log on to my user account, the computer gets very laggy and…
2 disks dead after a disk crash into a blue screen
Question: So I had a disk crash yesterday where I wasn’t able to boot Windows from it. I tried plugging the SSD into a SATA to USB adapter but could…
Western Digital WD5000AAVS
WD5000AAVS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AAVS-00N7B0 Western Digital Caviar Green 500GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
A failed disk (pay for a professional service or SpinRite?)
Question: In my previous post (you don’t need to read it, but it is Error a disk read error occurred on Windows XP), I said that my hard disk was…
Drive keeps disconnecting?
Question: I have an MSI PL62 7RC (3 years old? if that)I’ve been having problems where occasionally my hard drive would disconnect. So I added a Nvme SSD, which now…
Western Digital WD5000AAKX
WD5000AAKX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD5000AAKX-06 Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
How to securely erase an NVMe SSD
Question: It’s generally accepted that SSDs cannot be securely wiped by writing patterns to the drive, due to features such as wear leveling and over-provisioning, and that the most secure…