HDD FAQs

WD4000AAJS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD4000AAJS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

Performance gains from secure-erasing an SSD?

Question: Are there performance gains to be had by secure-erasing an SSD? (the secure-erase function, not securely zero’ing out data) I’m using an Intel 320 SSD 160GB as my main…

Installed ssd, old hard drive not showing up?

Question: Today I installed a new ssd for my computer but now all the hard drive storage is not showing up. To install my ssd, I unhooked the connection for…

HDDs

Western Digital WD4000BEVT

WD4000BEVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 400GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD4000BEVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

Fairly new drive has high usage but slow speed. Whole system running hot

Question: I originally suspected malware, because my pointer skips and my system gets slower and slower by day. I recently had a reg entry get messed up for no reason.…

5TB Seagate External Hard drive ticking

Question: I have a Seagate 5TB external hard drive that I plug in every few months as a backup. I plugged it yesterday and it doesn’t power up at all.…

HDDs

Western Digital WD30PURX

WD30PURX Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 3TB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD30PURX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

Hard Drive Caddy corrupting drives

Question: Something very funny is going on with my External Hard drive Caddy. ?I am running Linux Mint 14. I had a laptop breakdown just before Christmas, removed the drive…

How to set up hard drive for speed and efficiency