I want to add a second HDD to my PC, but-
Question: I’ve found my Legion Y520T’s motherboard only has two SATA ports and both are in use, one with the existing 1TB HDD and the other to it’s DVD player.…
HDD performance spikes
Question: I have a Dell Precision T1700 I purchased for about $1500 almost a year ago. I am having some moderate hard drive issues. I think it’s not as fast…
SSD won’t boot unless HDD is plugged
Question: So, I had windows installed in one of my SSD partitions a long time ago. Today I realized my HDD is failing, and bought a new one. So, until…
How do I get rid of this old hard drive in my machine?
Question: I bought it about 5 years ago and it came bundled with Windows Vista. When Windows 7 launched, I waited a bit then realized it would rock with an…
OS location keeps changing
Question: Hi, after a random windows 10 update I noticed that my PC was really slow l, so i check my storages (1tb hdd and 500gb ssd) and the OS…
How does RAID5 work?
Question:How does parity work on a RAID-5 array? ?? ??(5 answers) ?? ???Closed 7 years ago. ? In a raid 5 setup, you get 4 TB of usable space out…
How long it takes to clone a 1TB HDD to an SSD
Question: I started copying a 1 TB HDD into a 1 TB SSD to fix performance issues. The dock shows a 25%, 50%,75% and 100% progress bar. In my first…
What app can i use to track disk space?
Question: I dont know what is going on but my disk space seems to be going down and i am not downloading anything. What app can i use on windows…
New HDD makes repeating noise
Question: Hi, I bought a new Seagate barracuda 2TB HDD. When i installed it, it worked fine, but it makes a loud repeating loading/working noise, even when idle and with…
What does “I/O Reads or Writes” and “I/O Read Bytes or Write Bytes” mean?
Question: In Task Manager (and Sysinternals’ Process Explorer) there are columns called “I/O Reads”, “I/O Writes”, “I/O Read Bytes” and “I/O Write Bytes”. So what do these counters mean exactly?…