Why the difference in HDD surface scans?
Question: I have had two Toshiba HDWD130 hard drives in my PC for two years. I ran a victoria surface scan for both of them yesterday, and the result is…
Western Digital WD800BJKT
WD800BJKT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800BJKT Western Digital Scorpio Black 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 9.5mm 2.5-inch…
Initial Testing of New Hard Drives in Linux
Question: I’m about to get a couple brand new HGST DeskStar 4TB 3.5″ SATA hard drives. Are there any recommended practices these days I should perform before I start using…
I just installed a Seagate HDD but having some issues
Question: As the title says I’ m having some issues after installing my seagate hddI’m trying to initialize it in Disk Management but it says “A device which does not…
Western Digital WD800BEVT
WD800BEVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800BEVT Western Digital Scorpio Blue 80GB 5400RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 2.5-inch Hard…
How do I connect a SAS3 drive to a SAS2-capable motherboard that only has SATA-style ports?
Question: I have purchased two items that I want to mate: A SuperMicro motherboard: X10SL7-F A Seagate Enterprise SAS drive: ST6000NM0034 The motherboard seems to be somewhat unique in that…
HDD Noises?
Question: Recently I got a new PSU and a new HDD because both of my previous components were old and my PSU was quite loud. The new PSU is very…
Western Digital WD800BEVS
WD800BEVS Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800BEVS-00LATO Western Digital 80GB 5400RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 2.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
WD My Cloud very slow
Question: I just bought a WD My Cloud 3 TB, connected it to my modem and connected 6 devices to it.Currently I am getting very slow response times, 0.5 –…
Custom RAID 6 Storage With 6 x 3.5 SATA HDD Hot Swap USB 3.1 Gen2
Question: I am very new to RAID. As far I know RAID 6 can withstand two disk failures at one time. This is what I want. I heard that modern…