Category: Questions

Question: In this video (from this page .. a little dated but still relevant) At around 1:40 Steve says I think that the manufacturers could make a perfect drive for…

Question: I have had two Toshiba HDWD130 hard drives in my PC for two years. I ran a victoria surface scan for both of them yesterday, and the result is…

Question: I have a load of old external USB hard drives lying around – as I’m sure an increasing number of others do also. Is there any way I can…

Question: As the title says I’ m having some issues after installing my seagate hddI’m trying to initialize it in Disk Management but it says “A device which does not…

Question: I’m about to get a couple brand new HGST DeskStar 4TB 3.5″ SATA hard drives. Are there any recommended practices these days I should perform before I start using…

Question: Recently I got a new PSU and a new HDD because both of my previous components were old and my PSU was quite loud. The new PSU is very…

Question: I have purchased two items that I want to mate: A SuperMicro motherboard: X10SL7-F A Seagate Enterprise SAS drive: ST6000NM0034 The motherboard seems to be somewhat unique in that…

Question: I just bought a WD My Cloud 3 TB, connected it to my modem and connected 6 devices to it.Currently I am getting very slow response times, 0.5 –…

Question: I am very new to RAID. As far I know RAID 6 can withstand two disk failures at one time. This is what I want. I heard that modern…

Question: Since my HDD possibly might give out soon and I don’t want to have to go through the process of setting everything up again, I was thinking of getting…