What is the quickest way to tell whether a SATA cable is bad?
Question: To check whether a SATA cable is bad, currently I’d run a disk benchmark and look at the SMART attribute “UltraDMD CRC Error Count.” ?However, that attribute seems to…
New Hard Drive and it has a weird noise.
Question: So, I just got a new hard drive to replace my old one. The new hard drive is a seagate compute 2 TB (ST2000DM008). I hear a weird noise…
Western Digital WD10EADS
WD10EADS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10EADS-11PSB1 Western Digital 1TB 5400RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
Install Visual Studio 2010 on SSD drive, or HDD for better performance?
Question: I’m going to be installing Visual Studio 2010. ?I already have my source code on the SSD. ?For best performance, especially time to open the solution and compiling time,…
New USB 3.0 external hard drive only working on USB 3.0 ports
Question: I got a new external hard drive and tried it on my pc with 2.0 ports, but it didn’t recognize the hard drive and the hard drive started making…
Western Digital WD10EACS
WD10EACS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD10EACS-22D6B1 Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All information about…
How do I calculate the bytes per track based on the transfer rate?
Question: If you know the transfer rate, how do you calculate the bytes per track? Answer: Bytes per track depends totally on how the manufacturer laid out the disk internally,…
Use internal hard drives as NAS without a full PC power on
Question: Is it possible to access mapped network drives without the whole PC running in the normal way? I’ve recently migrated my Plex Media Server to NVIDIA Shield Pro –…
Western Digital WD1005FBYZ
WD1005FBYZ Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 1TB and featuring a SATA interface. WD1005FBYZ Western Digital 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 128MB Cache 3.5-inch Hard Drive. All…
Accidentally deleted the software for MyPassport Essential SE 1TB Hardrive
Question: I’m posting for a friend of mine. She bought a WD MyPassport Essential SE 1 TB Hard drive the other day. When she plugged in the USB in her…