Is there any software that can let me burn-in test a new harddisk before i put my data on it?
Question: I bought a new 1.5TB Samsung HDD, and since I heard that all the high capacity drives are very unreliable these days, I wanted to do some kind of…
Installing new HDD
Question: So I wanna change my hdd disk. Do I just manually copy and paste the files from the previous disk to the new one? Answer: My current HDD is…
How do you calculate the rotational latency of a hard drive?
Question: If you know the RPM, then how do you calculate the rotational latency? Answer: (1 / (RPM / 60)) * 0.5 * 1000 Or, in other words: 30000 /…
Questions about swapping old HDD for newer HDD
Question: So my old HDD is from around 2010-2013 and it is very slow and out of space. I purchased a new Toshiba x300 HDD and now I a have…
Do I get any performance boost with an IDE to SATA adapter?
Question: I picked up a barebones PC kit the other day so that I could get a speed boost and still use my old hard drives/DVD drives, etc. I currently…
HDD to SSD
Question: I have 2 HDD on my PC, I just bought 1 128GB SSD. Is there a possibility that I will move the windows programs from HDD to SSD? I…
Better hard disk
Question: In this video (from this page .. a little dated but still relevant) At around 1:40 Steve says I think that the manufacturers could make a perfect drive for…
Why the difference in HDD surface scans?
Question: I have had two Toshiba HDWD130 hard drives in my PC for two years. I ran a victoria surface scan for both of them yesterday, and the result is…
Can you link external USB hard drives in a RAID-style system?
Question: I have a load of old external USB hard drives lying around – as I’m sure an increasing number of others do also. Is there any way I can…