Why does my 500GB hard drive have a capacity of exactly 500,107,862,016 bytes?
Question: Why does my 500 GB hard disk show up to have exactly 500 107 862 016 Byte? I’m aware of the GiB vs. GB issue and know that manufacturers…
Failed to clean all hdd (virtual disk service error)
Question: I have two old laptop hdd. both of them have windows files on them probably because of that my new pc dont let me delete everything on them. i…
Western Digital WD40NMZM
WD40NMZM Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a USB interface. All information about the Western Digital WD40NMZM hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Promise Pegasus report dead after power failure
Question: After a power failure the Promise Pegasus R4 reports all disks drives as dead. But this is almost impossible! Is there any way to “reset” the Promise Pegasus without…
Recovering photos from old HDD
Question: I have an old Sata HDD from around 2007 that I used until 2013, when the old pc finally died The HDD has quite a few gigs of photos…
Western Digital WD40NDZW
WD40NDZW Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a USB interface. All information about the Western Digital WD40NDZW hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
One SSD + two HDD in RAID 1: SSD performance hit?
Question: My SSD based system is starting to feel slow and sluggish, but it used to be lightning fast. I tried to cleanup as much as I could, removed programs…
Western Digital WD40NDZM
WD40NDZM Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 4TB and featuring a USB interface. All information about the Western Digital WD40NDZM hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Will Windows notify me if there is a S.M.A.R.T warning?
Question: If there are S.M.A.R.T. warnings, will Windows (7, 2008 Server) notify me that the disk may die soon? Or do I need to install some 3rd party notification software?…