HDD FAQs

ST3160215A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160215A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…

How do I extend the size of an NTFS partition?

Question: I’m absolutely blown away by how impossible this task appearing to be. I’ve been through probably a hundred separate Google search results, every single one explaining how to “right…

Formatting an HDD

Question: Hi everybody, i have windows installed on an SSD and some other files on an HDD, while i’m running Windows (on the SSD) can i format the other storage,…

HDDs

Seagate ST3160212A

ST3160212A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160212A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…

Why do msi installations use slower drives over faster ones in windows 7?

Question: I have noticed that the slowest drive in my system is used most during an msi installation. I mainly notice this when running windows updates but it seems to…

Will ssd improve my hdd performance

Question: Im planning to buy an ssd, will it improve my 5400 rpm hdd performance? Answer: Im planning to buy an ssd, will it improve my 5400 rpm hdd performance?…

HDDs

Seagate ST3160023A

ST3160023A Seagate 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 160GB and featuring an IDE interface. All information about the Seagate ST3160023A hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure symptoms, HDD…

Tried to use my 3TB drive in a USB enclosure, now reports only 746GB even internally

Question:3TB hard disk displayed as 746GB ?? ??(2 answers) ?? ???Closed 5 years ago. ? I have two 3TB Hitachi 5k3000 Desktar drives that I want to use as data…