Category: Questions

Question: I recently encountered an I/O error reading a file on my hard drive. ?Examination of the SMART data shows that the drive has one bad sector (the Current_Pending_Sector count…

Question: I’ve had a smart warning on my 2TB drive for several months, so bought a replacement (also 2TB). I plugged it in as an external drive using a HDD…

Question: How can I connect this laptop SATA HDD to regular desktop SATA cable? Please look at the picture for reference. I can’t find any adaptors and not sure if…

Question: Can I get the status of a process by using the HDD and Power LEDs as indicators? I’d like to use the green power LED to tell me that…

Question: Hello, I was using my computer and it started slowing down then became almost entirely unresponsive so I shut down. Now the HDD is corrupted. I boot from an…

Question:Closed 9 years ago. ? I have heard many claim that it doesn’t matter how full a drive is until it starts cutting into temp and virtual memory space. This…

Question: Hi, I’m new to PC building and I’ve just realized that my case doesn’t have any drive cage but I want to install a HDD for more storage. Is…

Question: While I was upgrading my pre unibody MacBook Pro to an SSD, I couldn’t take out one of the screws from the old hard drive since it was chipped,…

Question: I recently replaced my very old 115GB SSD with a new 2TB SSD, so I transferred all my data (including windows) from my old SSD to my new SSD…

Question: I just received the Western Digital Caviar Green (WD5000AADS). I noticed it has a jumper setting “Spread Spectrum Clocking”. I read somewhere this is a trade-off between speed and…