Category: FAQs

Question: What’s a good manufacturer and model for a gaming HDD? I’m planning on buying a friend a 8-10TB 7200 RPM HDD, to pair w/ Intel optane cache, on a…

Question: I used Intel SSD data center tool to check my NVMe information, as shown below: – Intel Optane(TM) SSD DC P4800X FUKS7175003R375AGN -…Bootloader : EB3B0213DevicePath : /dev/nvme0n1DeviceStatus : HealthyFirmware…

Question: Hey Everyone,I got a weird situation, when i bought my laptop Acer N5, i upgraded the Storage by adding another 250SSD, and asked to make that as my boot…

Question: I have two 500GB hard drives from an old Windows laptop at my workplace. My boss has asked me to copy the contents to the file server if possible,…

Question: I bought a new HDD. Seagate Barracuda 2TB. There’s nothing on it. Other than a fan ish noise which I believe is normal there seems to be a high…

Question: I recently ran badblocks on a large server hard drive to check for possible issues (SMART reported that everything was fine, but I needed to be sure). The command…

Question: I’m currently configuring a new home server, and I am trying to get the disks to spin down after one hour. But they do not spin down. Setup I…

Question: I am going to get a different HDD than I have right now for my Plex server. Which would be the best HDD in this situation? I run the…

Question: I know roughly how hard-drives work; that the hard-drive involves multiple platters and multiple heads. A platter is a disk coated with some magnetic material and capable of being…

Question: I currently have my main pc with storage of 1TB. My old pc have a hdd with also 1TB. I want to get my old hdd and add it…