How do you calculate the rotational latency of a hard drive?
Question: If you know the RPM, then how do you calculate the rotational latency? Answer: (1 / (RPM / 60)) * 0.5 * 1000 Or, in other words: 30000 /…
Installing new HDD
Question: So I wanna change my hdd disk. Do I just manually copy and paste the files from the previous disk to the new one? Answer: My current HDD is…
Western Digital WD800ADFD
WD800ADFD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800ADFD Western Digital 80GB 10000RPM SATA 7-Pin 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Do I get any performance boost with an IDE to SATA adapter?
Question: I picked up a barebones PC kit the other day so that I could get a speed boost and still use my old hard drives/DVD drives, etc. I currently…
Questions about swapping old HDD for newer HDD
Question: So my old HDD is from around 2010-2013 and it is very slow and out of space. I purchased a new Toshiba x300 HDD and now I a have…
Western Digital WD800AAJS
WD800AAJS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800AAJS-75M0A0 Western Digital Caviar Blue 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
Better hard disk
Question: In this video (from this page .. a little dated but still relevant) At around 1:40 Steve says I think that the manufacturers could make a perfect drive for…
HDD to SSD
Question: I have 2 HDD on my PC, I just bought 1 128GB SSD. Is there a possibility that I will move the windows programs from HDD to SSD? I…
Western Digital WD800HLFS
WD800HLFS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800HLFS Western Digital Velociraptor 80GB 10000RPM SATA 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Can you link external USB hard drives in a RAID-style system?
Question: I have a load of old external USB hard drives lying around – as I’m sure an increasing number of others do also. Is there any way I can…