Category: FAQs

Question: Sorry for the noobie questions, I’ve been Googling all sorts of walkthroughs to create my ZFS raid, but I can’t seem to find the correct links for the answers…

Question: I recently noticed that one of my external hard drive seems to be missing a lot of space. It was recommended that I try WinDirStat, as it could help…

Question: hdparm’s -B parameter is documented as: ? Get/set Advanced Power Management feature, if the drive supports it. A low ?value means aggressive power management and a high value means…

Question: This is a problem I’ve seen described in many places: Super User (here, here, here and so on) Microsoft support forums (here, here…) The Lenovo forums have some users…

Question: I have a hard disk which started failing. I tested the hard disk using the in-build hardware diagnostic tool which the Dell laptop shipped with and it told me…

Question: My secondary hard-drive (platter) sometimes has a lag of 1-5 seconds when it hasn’t been accessed in a while, causing explorer or other software to stutter. Reading online, I…

Question: While I was trying to find out why the main disk is performing a form of unexpained “thrashing”(while there was ?no RAM issue), freezing up apps temporarily, I found…

Question: I’ve recently bought an external hard drive enclosure and it had arrived with an USB cable, with one USB connector on one side and two on the other. Why…

Question: I was wondering what would be the safest magnetic field for a hard drive so that the data inside it is safe and not wiped off? For example I…

Question: 7200 RPM Western Digital Blacks are designed to be faster than Western Digital Blues/Greens. They are the same speed, same cache, etc. What really makes them actually faster? Does…