Category: FAQs

Question: Prerequisite We have a FreeNAS System with a Pool consiting of 5x”3-way-mirror”. The disks per mirror are from different vendors but with the same “on-paper” performace-characteristics. Pool-Layout: Tank0 ?mirror-0…

Question: I have gone through 3 hard drives, the 3rd one marks today. First lasted 1 year, other 2 have ended up lasting 1-2 months. Is this a coincidence? The…

Question: I’m not looking for what Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) allows the user to do, but rather, what is the concept that SHR uses to allow you combine disks of…

Question: Over the years I’ve gone from 1TB to 2TB to 4TB HDD, etc. I now have stacks of the things. I’d like to get rid of the last of…

Question: Recently, a new drive with letter Z showing up which cannot be opened to see what’s inside. Here is the picture for better understanding. How to fix it? Sometimes,…

Question: I have a Seagate External Portable Plus 1TB that I got in 2019 and it was working fine until a few days ago. I didn’t drop in the past…

Question: I have dumped my PS3 games into game folders and I am storing them on an external hard drive.. Does keeping them as folders kill the HDD faster than…

Question: I am running Windows 10 Pro and I cloned (disk-to-disk) my 120GB SSD drive to a larger 2TB SATA drive because I was running out of disk space on…

Question: So, my hard drive is recognized in the BIOS it is a WD blue 2TB hard drive I used a ssd for boot but when I open windows files…

Question: I’m running Kali Dojo 2.0 and I’d like to encrypt the entire drive. I’ve encrypted my Windows 7 Home Premium drive with Veracrypt, and it was a simple setup…