Category: Questions

Question: Is there any way to avoid specific HDDs from spinning up at boot time? There are 3 HDDs in my HTPC (Ubuntu 12.10) and 1 SSD (boot drive). I…

Question:What can I do about 99% disk usage (only 0.9 MB/s)? ?? ??(2 answers) ?? ???Closed 2 years ago. ? After startup for 5 minutes my system is very slow.…

Question: I want to extend the life of this harddrive as much as possible because I found it nearly impossible to clone. It is running MSDOS 6.22. 110mb harddrive from…

Question: I have an older computer with a SATA-I connection. ?My hard drive crashed and I need to buy a new hard drive. ?Will I run into problems if I…

Question: A friend asked me if I could fix his laptop, with the description “black screen on boot”. Having tried using his laptop I immediately noticed that the laptop’s BIOS…

Question: Is it worth to spend money on a small capacity HDD (~5-20 GB, very cheap though) to use it as swapping area for the OS? I do believe it…

Question: The limited writings and capacityprice of the SSD are known drawbacks as the sensitivity to shocks of the HDD. The hybrid SSHD (standard HDD+SSD cache) have a classic HD…

Question: I am running out of disk space on C:-drive. We see many (millions of) files in C:ProgramDataMicrosoftCryptoRSAMachineKeys What are these files ? Why are so many files created? How…

Question: One of Seagate s recently popular hard drive models at the consumer and enterprise level is the ST3000DM001 3TB hard drive. It seems that many users in different usage…

Question: I have the same problem most people have: how to create a reliable personal storage solution with the fact that: Hard drives fail with alarming regularity. ?Losing files is…