Making SSD & HDD work together like a hybrid
Question: I have a 90GB SSD but 90GB soon gets filled up. ?My users folder alone is 26GB. ?To get round this I use Symlinks (read the How-To Geek article…
Seagate ST3500630NS
ST3500630NS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3500630NS-14317 Seagate Barracuda Es 500GB 7200RPM SATA 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information…
Which is better for keeping data: primary partition or logical partition?
Question: We have two options; creating a primary partition (say D:) or creating an extended partition, then create a logical partition (say D:) in the extended partition In terms of…
Seagate ST3500320AS
ST3500320AS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3500320AS Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM SERIAL ATA 3GB/s (SATA-II) 32MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile…
Can a ‘system image’ be restored to a drive with a different storage capacity?
Question: I have a family member who complains that her laptop is slow. I checked the laptop over and indeed, it was slow, so I looked into what was using…
Seagate ST3500312CS
ST3500312CS Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST3500312CS Seagate Pipeline HD.2 500GB 5900RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Will a SATA SSD drive work in WWAN (miniPCIe) slot?
Question: My company gave me a Dell E6540 with a built in 256 GB SSD (way too small). Dell does not make a CDROM replacement SSD for the E6540 (!!!),…
Seagate ST500NM0011
ST500NM0011 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500NM0011 Seagate Constellation ES 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6GB/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Why does WinDirStat report less space used than Windows does?
Question: I have an SSD with ~125GB formatted, and it claims ~99GB are consumed. It has been rapidly consuming storage space for weeks. I have found many instances of unexplained…
Seagate ST500DM009
ST500DM009 Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. ST500DM009 Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the…