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:root@localhost:~ $ df /dev/sdb1Filesystem ?1K-blocks ?Used Available Use% Mounted on/dev/sdb1 ?1922858352 ?23247088 1801935664 ?2% /mnt/external/sdb1 used+available = 1825182752 Size – 1825182752 ?= 97675600 Answer: 97675600 / 1825182752 = 5% this…
Question: I’ve been looking for a kind of specific HDD/SSD dock. As all of my computers now have Usb 3.1, and one has USB 3.1 Gen 2, I figured its…
Question: I have a relatively new Western Digital 1TB EADS hard drive (SATA) as my secondary drive. I’ve always found that accessing certain folders with lots of content (e.g. /Music/)…
Question: Hi there.Woke up this morning to my media/file server being unresponsive. It is an older ThinkServer TS140 that’s just running a Win 7 install. After forcefully rebooting it, it…
Question: Dell offers a laptop with either a 500GB drive or two 320GB drives (both 7200rpm and no options for SSD). ?I will be running VMs for development and will…
Question: Please help!I want to use old hdd in new pc. Old hdd has windows 10 installed already. I’m upgrading from i3 to ryzen 3. How do I make it…
Question: I wanted to know if there was a way (that worked!) to both Install and Run Windows XP Pro from a USB 2.0 connected Hard Drive. My system does…
Question: I recently built a new budget PC for myself, and it’s been working perfectly until about 2 days ago. I started noticing fps drops in games that ran smoothly,…
Question: I got a new HDD and want to move an existing Linux installation(more specific: OpenSUSE 11.1) from a partition on the old HDD to a partitionon the new HDD.…
Question: Just got a WD Black 4tb and they have this fancy look in all the pics on every retailer site. See: https://www.newegg.com/black-wd4005fzbx-4tb/p/234-000G-000W6 Mine definitely just looks like a plain…