Hard Drive read speed below 2 MB/sec. Normal? How to improve?
Question: I have a relatively new Western Digital 1TB EADS hard drive (SATA) as my secondary drive. I’ve always found that accessing certain folders with lots of content (e.g. /Music/)…
Failed/corrupted HDD? Seagate Archive HDD ST8000AS0002
Question: Hi there.Woke up this morning to my media/file server being unresponsive. It is an older ThinkServer TS140 that’s just running a Win 7 install. After forcefully rebooting it, it…
Seagate ST36811A
ST36811A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6.4GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST36811A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is it a big performance gain to run a VM from a second drive?
Question: Dell offers a laptop with either a 500GB drive or two 320GB drives (both 7200rpm and no options for SSD). ?I will be running VMs for development and will…
Use old hdd in new pc. Old hdd has windows 10 installed already. I’m upgrading from i3 to ryzen 3. How do I make it work. Will I encounter problems?
Question: Please help!I want to use old hdd in new pc. Old hdd has windows 10 installed already. I’m upgrading from i3 to ryzen 3. How do I make it…
Seagate ST36422A
ST36422A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 6.4GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST36422A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Install Windows XP to USB Hard Drive and Run from It
Question: I wanted to know if there was a way (that worked!) to both Install and Run Windows XP Pro from a USB 2.0 connected Hard Drive. My system does…
HDD usage at 75% – 100% at random
Question: I recently built a new budget PC for myself, and it’s been working perfectly until about 2 days ago. I started noticing fps drops in games that ran smoothly,…
Seagate ST3500841A
ST3500841A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3500841A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
How do I move a Linux installation between partitions?
Question: I got a new HDD and want to move an existing Linux installation(more specific: OpenSUSE 11.1) from a partition on the old HDD to a partitionon the new HDD.…