Why is my 6TB harddrive showing as two unallocated partitions?
Question: This is a new 6TB “WD Black” Western Digital drive. I can’t remove either section. I can’t create a larger-than 2048GB partition. A Windows 7 MBR was accidentially written…
Hard Drive Storage Question
Question: Currently, I have a pc with 5 internal hard drives(movies and such) and 5 external hard drives(for backup). Is my current setup the most efficient way to use and…
Western Digital WD2500YD
WD2500YD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD2500YD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Can a SATA cable be too short?
Question: In an attempt to clean up the wiring in my mini-tower desktop case and make it less of a mess to handle, I’m considering swapping out the longer SATA…
Using old hard drives on new pc
Question: I have two hard drives currently in my pc that I want to keep the files and delete windows from it since I will be installing windows on a…
Western Digital WD2500SD
WD2500SD Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD2500SD hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
Why aren’t there multiple heads covering the radius of a hard disk platter?
Question: If every platter had multiple heads that together cover the radius, wouldn’t that mean the arm didn’t have to move and that data would transfer faster? Why is the…
Backup Drive: New HDD vs Reused Laptop HDD
Question: For my PC build I have a 500GB NVMe SSD, but I also am planning to add extra storage in the form of hard drives. This storage will rarely…
Western Digital WD2500KS
WD2500KS Western Digital 3.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 250GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD2500KS hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…
What is the difference between a disk block and a sector?
Question: I know that a sector is the unit in which a track is splitted, but I had this doubt since I was looking for information about the maximum number…