Category: Questions

Question: I’m currently configuring a new home server, and I am trying to get the disks to spin down after one hour. But they do not spin down. Setup I…

Question: I know roughly how hard-drives work; that the hard-drive involves multiple platters and multiple heads. A platter is a disk coated with some magnetic material and capable of being…

Question: I currently have my main pc with storage of 1TB. My old pc have a hdd with also 1TB. I want to get my old hdd and add it…

Question: I’ve got a puzzling dilemma that I’ve been trying to solve for weeks. I want to backup about 500 GBs from an external hard drive to my Dropbox Pro…

Question: I bought new HDD (ironwolf 2TB) and use erase test in HDDScan. Found quite a bit of slow sectors (

Question: I have a Windows 10 Professional workstation I use to simulate material flow in impressions. The FEA software I use creates large 50-100GB database files for each simulation I…

Question: After I updated my bios I had to reinstall windows on my nvme because it wouldn’t find a boot device so I had to erase all my data which…

Question: I recently installed Linux Mint 18.2 on a brand new PC containing 2 SanDisk SSDs. The installation completed without error. After setting up all of the software needed on…

Question: perhaps i could have found this information on forums if i could just word it correctly., but when i copy files from HDD to SSD my speeds are like…

Question: I have a Samsung 840 SSD and an 840 EVO. Both are reporting 512-byte as the logical and physical sector size. A datasheet for the similar-but-not-identical 840 Pro also…