Category: FAQs

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…

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?…

Question: Hello,I recently built my pc with a 2tb HDD and a 512 gb m.2 ssd. When I was first installing windows the only drive that showed up was my…

Question: How should I format my hard drive for use on both a Mac and a PC? ?Is there any way I can also use Time Machine with this drive?…

Question: Hi, thx for answering my question(s)…So 1 week ago my 6 year old hdd started acting up and turns out it has some “bad sectors” so it always gave…

Question: What is the actual capacity of a 1TB HDD, is it 1000GB or 931GB? I am not asking about the formatted size; the raw/unformatted size.The data sheet says, 1TB…

Question: Right now i have a Sata 2 HDD as my OS hdd its 80 gb 3gbs sata 2 and a second one which is sata 3 7200rpm 500gbif i…

Question: During real, everyday use, that is? ?I’m looking to upgrade a drive in a MacBook Pro, and am looking at either a 750GB/7200RPM or a 1TH/5400RPM drive. ?Would I…

Question: I’ve just recently bought a orico dual bay HDD docking station but whenever I try and insert a 3.5′ hdd it switches off? Answer:Did you plug in the power…

Question: I’ve added another 1 TB Western Digital disk on my computer (there is a disk with 250 GB already), and after booting to Windows 7, it recognise the disk,…