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…
Seagate ST3250823A
ST3250823A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3250823AS Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200RPM SATA 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile (1.0 inch) Hard…
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?…
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…
Seagate ST3250820A
ST3250820A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3250820AS Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200RPM SATA 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Low Profile 1.0-inch Hard Drive.…
How can I share an external hard drive between a Mac and a PC?
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?…
Move OS from HDD to SSD
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…
Seagate ST3250623A
ST3250623A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a IDE interface. ST3250623AS Seagate 250GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about the Seagate…
What is the actual manufactured capacity (raw not formatted) of a HDD
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…
Using an old HDD with bad sectors as my secondary HDD
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…