What is the lifetime of a typical hard disk?
Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? What lifetime can be expected of the typical hard disk? Or are there big differences between different types? And does it make a difference if…
Extra battery in the bay of an HDD
Question: Some modern laptops ship with an M.2 NVMe interface for an SSD and a SATA interface for an HDD. Is it ever possible to install an extra battery in…
What is the quickest and best way to copy a 500 GB drive?
Question: I have an external drive and it’s not working well. I want to move or copy all the stuff to a new external drive before it’s too late. Copy…
Does partitioning hard drives into a smaller partition than the actual size make it perform better objectively?
Question: I used to work on a 80gb HDD back in 2016 and it actually felt snappy most of the time. And after purchasing a new laptop with 1TB HDD…
HDD vs SSD durability
Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it focuses on one problem only by editing this post. ? ?? Closed 6 years ago. ???? ??Improve this…
Using “badblocks” on modern disks
Question: I want to use badblocks to check my HDDs and would appreciate clarification of its operation. Can someone please explain the best options to use with -b and -c?…
How do I manually “shut down” an hard drive without plugging it out?
Question: I am connecting 1-2 hard drives via E-SATA. Using Windows, is there an option to force “shutting down” that hard drive (until it is needed again)? Answer: What you’re…
diagnosing 100 percent disk usage in windows 10
Question: Since updating to win 10, I’m experiencing issues with my disk usage. From time to time (sometimes every 10 minutes, sometimes once every few hours) my system becomes unresponsive…
Why are hard drives never as large as advertised?
Question: From all the hard drives I have bought, they never seem to be as large as the advertised size; from 320 GB down to 290 GB, from 500 GB…
How can I use an old PATA hard disk drive on my newer SATA-only computer?
Question: I’ve got some old hard drives I’d like to connect to my new computer to quickly transfer gigs and gigs of data from the old drives to my nice…