HDD FAQs

WD5000BUCT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5000BUCT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

Windows showing up new unknown (Z:) drive

Question: Recently, a new drive with letter Z showing up which cannot be opened to see what’s inside. Here is the picture for better understanding. How to fix it? Sometimes,…

External Hard Drive Not Loading

Question: I have a Seagate External Portable Plus 1TB that I got in 2019 and it was working fine until a few days ago. I didn’t drop in the past…

HDDs

Western Digital WD5000BPVX

WD5000BPVX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5000BPVX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

Disk size shows the same after cloning a small disk to a larger disk

Question: I am running Windows 10 Pro and I cloned (disk-to-disk) my 120GB SSD drive to a larger 2TB SATA drive because I was running out of disk space on…

ISO vs smaller files, which one kills the HDD faster ?

Question: I have dumped my PS3 games into game folders and I am storing them on an external hard drive.. Does keeping them as folders kill the HDD faster than…

HDDs

Western Digital WD5000BPVT

WD5000BPVT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5000BPVT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

How would I encrypt my whole Linux filesystem with Veracrypt?

Question: I’m running Kali Dojo 2.0 and I’d like to encrypt the entire drive. I’ve encrypted my Windows 7 Home Premium drive with Veracrypt, and it was a simple setup…