Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why?
Question: iotop -a (accumulated I/O) on Linux shows after about 10 min. of browsing Internet: Total DISK READ: ?0.00 B/s | Total DISK WRITE: ?0.00 B/s ?TID ?PRIO ?USER ?DISK…
Samsung SP1654N
SP1654N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP1654N Samsung Spinpoint P80 SP1654N 160 GB 3.5 Internal Hard Drive IDE Ultra ATA/133…
How to resize the primary Windows XP partition?
Question: I just cloned my failing 250 GB hard drive onto a 500 GB hard drive (so I wouldn’t have to re-install everything, etc.), but now the drive only thinks…
Samsung SP1644N
SP1644N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP1644N Samsung Spinpoint P80 SP1644N 160 GB Internal Hard Drive OEM IDE Ultra ATA/133…
Converting between GPT and MBR hard drive without losing data
Question: NOTE: I don’t know a lot about hard drives so you’re going to have to work with me here. My question: Can I change my hard drive from GPT…
Samsung SP1614N
SP1614N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP1614N Samsung 160GB Spinpoint P80 ATA-133 7200RPM 3.5-inch Internal Hard Drive. All information about…
Why is Windows constantly spinning up my secondary HDD?
Question: I’m having a problem with windows constantly spinning up my secondary HDD. My main OS is on the C: partition of my SSD and on my HDD I have…
Samsung SP1614C
SP1614C Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. SP1614C Samsung SpinPoint P80 160GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Windows 8 extremely high disk usage and slow IO
Question: Problem After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Professional, there seem to be a few disturbing problems. When I have the Task Manager open, I sometimes notice the…
Samsung SP1613N
SP1613N Samsung 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring a IDE interface. Samsung SP1613N 160GB 7.2K 3.5Inch PATA 8MB Cache Hard Drive. All information about the…