Category: FAQs

Question: I have a Western Digital 14 TB Drive, (model WD140EMFZ-11A0WA0) hard drive that I have managed to break off one of the pins on the data connector on the…

Question: I have a Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 7200rpm hard drive with unbearable seek noise! See Quiet Hard Drive suggestions. I have replaced the drive now, but don’t want…

Question: The sata connectors on one of my hard drives has got bent so I swapped the PCB from an identical board without knowing there was more to do than…

Question: How do I tell if my motherboard & disk drive support native command queueing? Is it in the device manager, or somewhere else? Windows has a checkbox for “Enable…

Question: I got this ssd today. Isn’t a little bit to small? http://imgur.com/zEnVAhF Answer:The NW912 chip is a Micron MT29F512G08EEHAFJ4-3R:A. That’s a 512Gbit NAND flash memory, ie 64GiB. If there…

Question: When partitioning with fdisk the last few sectors cannot be included in a partition, as far as I have experienced. I always thought this is due to MiB- or…

Question: I recently bought a 980 Pro PCIe 4.0 NVMe to pair with my ASUS ROG Strix B550-F, and after installing the heatsink onto the M.2, I noticed it is…

Question: Hi I’ve got a 5 year old Dell Precision T7500 – nice machine it has been too. It was getting all clogged up with software, and I need to…

Question: Hello,I was linked to the article https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads/wd-burnt-pcb.3471470/ by google but it is closed.@fzabkar I am referring to your statement in the article I linked above. But let me start…

Question: I have a 3 TB external NTFS drive I was originally using on Windows. I’m now using it on a Linux samba fileserver, and there’s a folder named “System…