How large of HDD can I use
Question: How big of HDD can I add to my Dell XPS 8500 as a secondary drive. It runs Windows 10 64bit 12 gig Ram and currently has 1 TB…
Seagate ST980210A
ST980210A Seagate 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 80GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST980210A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
Bootable USB stick with Truecrypt
Question: I want to boot the TrueCrypt rescue disk from a USB flash drive. I have Windows 7 64bit so I cannot use Grub4Dos to do this (it only works…
How to fix recover unallocated partition in external HDD?
Question: Hello again! It’s all about that WD 1TB external HDD that I ignorantly used as a flash USB to download Linux, turning it into a 2.80MB mass storage device.I’ve…
Seagate ST38421A
ST38421A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8.4GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST38421A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
What advantages and disadvantages have Hybrid SSD/HDD RAIDs
Question: I just read about Hybrid RAID arrays consisting of SSDs and common HDDs which are supported by Adaptec’s RAID controllers. Does such a RAID configuration provide real advantage? Isn’t…
Swap ssd and hdd
Question: I’m setting up my new pc and realized I’ve been installing everything to the ssd that is drive c and not the hdd that’s drive d. I just wanted…
Seagate ST38410A
ST38410A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 8.4GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST38410A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…
How to change hdd read error timeout?
Question: I’m recovering data from an hdd using ddrescue. With “retry” disabled, it takes roughly 30 seconds for every unreadable sector. The hdd has tens of thousands of bad sectors…
Upgrading from HDD to SSD. Some questions
Question: I am upgrading from a 2TB HDD that has my Windows 10 OS to a 2TB SSD: (https://www.newegg.ca/western-digital-blue-2tb/p/N82E16820250093?Item=N82E16820250093). I plan on using Macrium Reflect to clone the drive.Wondering if…