Why are 4k reads in hdd/ssd benchmarks slower than writes?
Question: There are several benchmark tools available to test the speed of a pc drive. Here is an benchmark example of a SATA SSD: Sequential Read : 718.498 MB/s Sequential…
Seagate ST9320312AS
ST9320312AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9320312AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Do Solid State Disks (SSDs) have a buffer cache?
Question: All HDDs that I know have at least 8MB or more of buffer cache (I know that it is for increasing read and write performance on Disk Drivers). However,…
Seagate ST9320310AS
ST9320310AS Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST9320310AS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Is it worth buying SSDs for a RAID?
Question: Im seeing people using SSDs for RAID-0 and getting excellent improvements in read/write rates. But now there is a good opportunity to acquire another SSD Force Corsair F60 identical…
Seagate ST320LT025
ST320LT025 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST320LT025 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
Low disk space after filling up C:WindowsTemp with .evtx and .txt files
Question: I’ve been using my new Windows 10 PC for about one week and have recently started getting this warning: This does not appear every reboot. Checking C: properties, 212MB…
Seagate ST320LT023
ST320LT023 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST320LT023 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…
What is the whole function and effect of “Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing on the device”
Question: In Windows 7, using the Device Manager, bringing up the properties of a disk, and going to the Policies tab, there are 2 switch items. The write cache, which…
Seagate ST320LT020
ST320LT020 Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 320GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Seagate ST320LT020 hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, frequently…