HDD FAQs

WD800BD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800BD Western Digital Caviar 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 2MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive.…

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 /…

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…

HDDs

Western Digital WD800ADFD

WD800ADFD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800ADFD Western Digital 80GB 10000RPM SATA 7-Pin 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…

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…

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…

HDDs

Western Digital WD800AAJS

WD800AAJS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD800AAJS-75M0A0 Western Digital Caviar Blue 80GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 8MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…

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…

HDD to SSD