Everything about the HDD!
Got a question about hard drives? You’ve come to the right place. This category is dedicated to answering the most common (and complex) queries about HDD technology.
Question: Hello, my problem looks rather serious. I’m somewhat keen on the software side of things, but not really knowledgeable about hardware. I would really appreciate the help, since there’s…
Question: Flash memory has a limited number of read/write cycles, after which it fails. ?What happens when it fails? ?Is it like a hard drive, where a failed write is…
Question: I have a Western Digital MyBook that stopped working. I’m not sure if it’s a I or II. The symptoms are it doesn’t light up anymore, and the power…
Question: I’ve had a problem that only started to occur yesterday. When I boot into Windows 7 and log on to my user account, the computer gets very laggy and…
Question: So I had a disk crash yesterday where I wasn’t able to boot Windows from it. I tried plugging the SSD into a SATA to USB adapter but could…
Question: In my previous post (you don’t need to read it, but it is Error a disk read error occurred on Windows XP), I said that my hard disk was…
Question: I have an MSI PL62 7RC (3 years old? if that)I’ve been having problems where occasionally my hard drive would disconnect. So I added a Nvme SSD, which now…
Question: It’s generally accepted that SSDs cannot be securely wiped by writing patterns to the drive, due to features such as wear leveling and over-provisioning, and that the most secure…
Question: I bought a 6TB WD Red Pro to use as an internal data drive in my system. I noticed that instead of the normal 6 or 8 jumper pairs,…
Question: I recently got a new 1TB SSD for my computer (a Lenovo ThinkPad P70). My plan is to have this disk as the main Windows 10 boot drive, and…