Category: Questions

Question: I have 2x 1.5TB drives in a (two-way mirror storage pool). That pool recently hit 100% capacity meaning both drives had 0% space left. I added 2x 4TB drives…

Question: On my HDD which I’ve put in my Synoglogy NAS DS207+ I see this SMART-status: Is there any way to fix or circumvent this issue? Is there any way…

Question: I currently work in 2 different locations, traveling between the 2 every few weeks or so. I currently have screens, kb, mouse etc… in both locations, so I just…

Question: Suppose we have a harddisk with 2 platters with characteristics below: ? Rotational rate: 10, 000 RPM ?Avg sectors/track: 1000 ?Surfaces: 4 ?Sector size: 512 bytes I was reading…

Question: When I run into a a hard drive that may be failing, I scan it using ViVARD, which reliably lets me know if the drive needs replacing. How do…

Question: I have cloned a hard drive to an SSD using Clonezilla. ?Both drives were of identical size, and the process appears to have worked successfully. I can boot into…

Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it can be answered with facts and citations by editing this post. ? ?? Closed 6 years ago. ????…

Question: Is EFI booting something hardware specific? I have a desktop motherboard with a UEFI Bios, but I can only boot from USB drives in “UEFI” mode. Both the DVD…

Question: I had a random report in an open Terminal today saying that “My hard drive is about to fail!” I did some tests and I’m not sure how bad…

Question: I have a similar issue as this user. You can pretty much take his screen shot and apply it to my issue: Windows 8.1, 99% disk usage or in…