Category: FAQs

Question: So, let’s say you have a notebook, and you encrypt the entire hard drive. Whenever you boot it’s gonna ask for a password, meaning nobody can access your data…

Question: How can I determine if a PC s hard drive is SATA or IDE, and also if it s a 3.5 one or 2.5 one. Answer: It would have…

Question: Can storing a hard drive near an electric wire (220V) damage the hard drive? I have no clue about such things so I thought I’d ask here. It’s just…

Question: I’m changing my computer case to the Fractal Design Define R3. It looks like a nice case, and it seems to have great reviews. I’ve got a 2.5″ SSD…

Question: My 4 months old Mac partition volume is losing space slowly and gradually. I am pretty sure there are a lot of orphaned temporary files laying around in the…

Question: My professor posted a slide on how to calculate the data retrieval from hard disk using the block model. The specs were: 7200 RPM 5ms SEEK 80MB/s TRANSFER RATE…

Question: I was wondering, is it safe to do “extended” smart test on a 1TB hdd regularly ( once a month) ? what about “short” and “conveyance” Answer: Yes, albeit…

Question: When I turn my laptop on after it hibernated and even when I m at the point where I m at my desktop and I can well, use my…

Question: tl;dr in case a URE ?occurs on a hdd, will I loose 1bit, 1Byte, or the size of a sector (512Bytes, or 4096 Bytes AF)? and if possible explain…

Question: I am thinking of getting a Dell X11 netbook, and it can go up to 8GB of DRAM, together with a 256GB Solid State Drive. So in that case,…