Category: Questions

Question: Among the various fields in a hard-drive s SMART statistics, a few are flagged as life-critical , that is, those values determine the primary health of the drive and…

Question: my external hdd stopped working and makes weird noises. opened inside of it then uploaded a video. please help me, i am about to lose 10 years old archive…

Question: Upon bootup I have a drive that will spin up click and few times then spin down. I have a spare drive (same model number) I attempted to transfer…

Question: What’s a good manufacturer and model for a gaming HDD? I’m planning on buying a friend a 8-10TB 7200 RPM HDD, to pair w/ Intel optane cache, on a…

Question: I used Intel SSD data center tool to check my NVMe information, as shown below: – Intel Optane(TM) SSD DC P4800X FUKS7175003R375AGN -…Bootloader : EB3B0213DevicePath : /dev/nvme0n1DeviceStatus : HealthyFirmware…

Question: Hey Everyone,I got a weird situation, when i bought my laptop Acer N5, i upgraded the Storage by adding another 250SSD, and asked to make that as my boot…

Question: I have two 500GB hard drives from an old Windows laptop at my workplace. My boss has asked me to copy the contents to the file server if possible,…

Question: I bought a new HDD. Seagate Barracuda 2TB. There’s nothing on it. Other than a fan ish noise which I believe is normal there seems to be a high…

Question: I recently ran badblocks on a large server hard drive to check for possible issues (SMART reported that everything was fine, but I needed to be sure). The command…

Question: I am going to get a different HDD than I have right now for my Plex server. Which would be the best HDD in this situation? I run the…