Category: FAQs

Question: I am having windows 8.1 with update 1 installed and all release updates of windows till the date i am posting this questions. System is laptop, Core i3 with…

Question:Why is there such a big difference between “Size” and “Size on disk”? ?? ??(9 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? I recently bought a 750 GB 2.5″ hard…

Question: so I have a 1TB HDD, and here’s my question: Is it worth doing a hard format? Does it have any performance variance from say, quick formatting? I understand…

Question: Are there any hard drives that exist that have multiple independent read/write heads on the same hard drive platter? Correct me if I’m wrong, but I would expect that…

Question: I have a dell laptop that recently “died” (It would get the blue screen of death upon starting) and the hard drive would make a weird cyclic clicking noises.…

Question: I have a MacBook Pro that I bought around 2011. ?How do I know what level of SATA the internal hard drive interface supports? ? This is the About…

Question: I was reading yesterday’s Jeff Atwood blog post on Revisiting SSD and I first heard about hybrid hard drives: a HD that has a small SSD portion (let’s say…

Question: I’m trying to install windows 8.1 and I’m getting this error message after I choose the hard drive to install the windows in we couldn’t create a new partition…

Question: I have 2x 1.5TB drives in a (two-way mirror storage pool). That pool recently hit 100% capacity meaning both drives had 0% space left. I added 2x 4TB drives…

Question: On my HDD which I’ve put in my Synoglogy NAS DS207+ I see this SMART-status: Is there any way to fix or circumvent this issue? Is there any way…