Can a SATA cable be too short?
Question: In an attempt to clean up the wiring in my mini-tower desktop case and make it less of a mess to handle, I’m considering swapping out the longer SATA…
Using old hard drives on new pc
Question: I have two hard drives currently in my pc that I want to keep the files and delete windows from it since I will be installing windows on a…
Western Digital WD2500SD
WD2500SD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500SD-01KCBO Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Why aren’t there multiple heads covering the radius of a hard disk platter?
Question: If every platter had multiple heads that together cover the radius, wouldn’t that mean the arm didn’t have to move and that data would transfer faster? Why is the…
Backup Drive: New HDD vs Reused Laptop HDD
Question: For my PC build I have a 500GB NVMe SSD, but I also am planning to add extra storage in the form of hard drives. This storage will rarely…
Western Digital WD2500KS
WD2500KS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500KS-00MJB0 Western Digital Caviar 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3GB/s 16MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Disk…
What is the difference between a disk block and a sector?
Question: I know that a sector is the unit in which a track is splitted, but I had this doubt since I was looking for information about the maximum number…
Moving hard drive to new pc
Question: Hi, on my hard drive currently I have a massive database with data stretching back about 5 years through an app called proform. I am installing win10 onto a…
Western Digital WD2500JS
WD2500JS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD2500JS-98SHB0 Western Digital 250GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Virus hides files, shrinks total capacity
Question: A virus infected my hard drive. The drive’s capacity is 1 TB and has different type of files on it, 400 GB+ in total. Suddenly all the files disappear,…