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Question: I have an old western digital laptop hard disk from 2010 a 250gb one. Haven’t been using the last (get ready) 5 YEARS, I gave it to my cousin…
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Question: I have an old western digital laptop hard disk from 2010 a 250gb one. Haven’t been using the last (get ready) 5 YEARS, I gave it to my cousin…
Question: I have two different external USB hard-drives which goes to sleep mode when not used for a while. When any software program (or I, myself) opens directory tree, open/save…
Question: How do I check a HDD’s total host writes, like how CrystalDiskInfo shows the total host writes for SSDs? Answer: So theres no way to show an actual number,…
Question: I’d like to use an NVMe drive paired with a PCIe adapter as main system disk. Unfortunately, I have a mainboard (X79) whose BIOS does not support booting NVMe…
Question: Hello! I am wondering if my WD Green 2012 will slow my games if I have an i5-10600k, 16gb RAM and a 1060 6gb. I also have 250 gb…
Question: Is the number of sectors fixed for each track in a hard drive? I am wondering about this because most hard drive specifications give an accurate value for sectors/track…
Question: So, I have the following setup on my PC: a 240gb kingston ssd (which has Win 10 installed and is SATA) and a 1tb hdd for general storage. I’m…
Question: I have an NTFS hard drive which I’ve been reading/writing to on my iMac using NTFS-3G / Tuxera. The reason that it’s NTFS formatted is because it came out…
Question: So, I’m getting a new HDD and there’s no more slots left. I can’t remove the other HDD’s either. So, if I attach it on my PSU with Double…
Question: Update (solved) The sound was coming from my speakers, that’s all there is to it. While I go to cringe in a small hole for a few weeks I’d…