Month: May 2021

WD7500KEVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500KEVT Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750GB 5200RPM SATA-300 (SATA-II) 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard…

SSD upgrade underperforming

Question: I upgraded my Windows 7 PC from a Samsung Spinpoint F4EG HD204UI HDD to a SanDisk Pulse SDSSDP-128G-G25 SSD but, unlike seemingly everyone else in the world, I have…

How to repair old Samsung SP1604N HDD? It does not spin.

Question: Hi there guys, i’m new here. So I found an old 3.5 HDD of mine and i know it has a lot of childhood memories on it.For reference, it…

HDDs

Western Digital WD7500BPVX

WD7500BPVX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500BPVX Western Digital Blue 750GB 5400RPM SATA 6GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch 9.5mm Hard…

Low disk performance with Windows 8.1

Question: I have a Dell XPS 15 (L502X) that have a Core i5-2450M, 6GB RAM and a 1TB WD 5400RPM HDD.This notebook Achilles’ heel is the disk. It’s slow and…

Disappearing Harddrive?

Question: I’ve got an annoying issue that’s been going on for a while and I haven’t been able to solve. My computer has a hard drive that keeps disappearing.It’s a…

HDDs

Western Digital WD7500BPVT

WD7500BPVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 750GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD7500BPVT Western Digital Scorpio Blue 750GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Mobile…

Does cloning a hard drive also copy over errors like bad sectors?

Question: For example, I have Windows 7 on a hard drive where SMART reports “many bad sectors”. If I buy a new hard drive, and attempt to clone over Windows…

Can you recover data from an SSD without power?