Running Windows disk defragmentation on boot in Windows 10
Question: My PC shows that the system reserved and the windows partitions are fragmented above 10%. I kept the defrag option running within Windows but there is no impact on…
External hard drive not recognised
Question: I have a Western Digital Elements WDBAAU0010HBK External Hard Drive. I’ve not used it for a year or so, but connected it and powered it up today with the…
Western Digital WD25EZRS
WD25EZRS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 2.5GB and featuring a SATA interface. WD25EZRS-11J99B0 Western Digital 2TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Interpreting the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value for hard drives
Question: I’m confused about the Spin Retry Count S.M.A.R.T. attribute value. On one particular hard drive, I see a raw value of 0, which the popular CrystalDiskInfo v7.0.5 interprets as…
Can someone explain this
Question: Ok so im going to use my old hard drive as a game drive because I just ordered a 240GB SSD (with d-ram i might add) but when doing…
Western Digital WD10PURZ
WD10PURZ Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10PURZ Western Digital Surveillance Purple 1TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard…
Diskpart assign letter to partition that is not associated with a volume (windows 10)
Question: I used to have 3 volumes on my disk before something happened to the MBR that messed up my boot. Now i’m trying to rebuild the boot environment to…
Help me with this second hard drive installation please
Question: Hi there, I have a pc with a HDD of 1 tb with windows 10 installed, I would like to add a second hard drive HDD with 500gb space…
Western Digital WD10PURX
WD10PURX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10PURX-64E5EY0 Western Digital 1TB 5400RPM SATA 6Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
How to add an additional drive to an existing ZFS RAIDZ-1 in Proxmox?
Question: I’ve a ZFS installation in Proxmox, in particular a RAIDZ-1 file system, for testing purposes (before going on production with this setup) I’ve added a new drive to the…