Category: FAQs

Question: I was reading this Tom’s Hardware article on testing SSDs and came across the following claim: ? With SSDs, performance varies by capacity point. Smaller drives tend to be…

Question: In my jobs almost two decades ago, IT experts would keep the size of Windows’ main partition (C drive) extremely small compared to the other partitions. They would argued…

Question: I try to copy files from a linux (ubuntu) machine to an external hard drive mounted on a mac but got an error message : scp: ambiguous target What…

Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Super User. ? ?? Closed 4 years ago. ???? ??Improve this question ?? ? Is there…

Question: I’ve heard that NTFS compression can reduce performance due to extra CPU usage, but I’ve read reports that it may actually increase performance because of reduced disk reads. ?How…

Question: In a nutshell, the problem looks like this picture: In short, gigantic latency, very slow read speed (I assume that is caused by the same thing). After a very…

Question: Let me give you some backup story first: A computer technician challenged me to give him my laptop and ask him for any piece of information that I wanted…

Question: I’ve recently received an assembled PC. I don’t know if the disk is an SSD or old HDD (whether SATA or other technologies). I can’t find a way to…

Question: I would like to use a (small) SSD disk as a cache for a large hard disk. I realize there are hardware-based products that do this: HighPoint RocketHybrid HBA,…

Question: I have 4 HDDs here with me, from 3 different manufacturers, and all of them have the following 4-pin extra interface beside the SATA connector: Looking on internet, I…