Month: June 2021

ST3250820A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250820A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…

How can I share an external hard drive between a Mac and a PC?

Question: How should I format my hard drive for use on both a Mac and a PC? ?Is there any way I can also use Time Machine with this drive?…

Move OS from HDD to SSD

Question: Hello,I recently built my pc with a 2tb HDD and a 512 gb m.2 ssd. When I was first installing windows the only drive that showed up was my…

HDDs

Seagate ST3250623A

ST3250623A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250623A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…

What is the actual manufactured capacity (raw not formatted) of a HDD

Question: What is the actual capacity of a 1TB HDD, is it 1000GB or 931GB? I am not asking about the formatted size; the raw/unformatted size.The data sheet says, 1TB…

Using an old HDD with bad sectors as my secondary HDD

Question: Hi, thx for answering my question(s)…So 1 week ago my 6 year old hdd started acting up and turns out it has some “bad sectors” so it always gave…

HDDs

Seagate ST3250620A

ST3250620A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3250620A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…

Would I notice the difference between a 7200 rpm and a 5400 rpm laptop hard drive?

Question: During real, everyday use, that is? ?I’m looking to upgrade a drive in a MacBook Pro, and am looking at either a 750GB/7200RPM or a 1TH/5400RPM drive. ?Would I…