Everything about the HDD!
Got a question about hard drives? You’ve come to the right place. This category is dedicated to answering the most common (and complex) queries about HDD technology.
Question: There is “Offline” menu in Disk Management. If I click that, the disk becomes offline and not accessible. My question is that, does “offline” actually turn off (spin down)…
Question: Hi all I have two Seagate 2tb ST2000DM001 HDDs. One with 20k hours and other with 5k. Both with CC25 FW. And a 120gb SSD to OS.The 5k one…
Question: If I use a dual-disk enclosure that employs JBOD, would I be able to at least access and use a second disk in the event that the other fails…
Question: I found Seagate Ironwolf 4TB drives on Amazon for $15 less than the WD Reds. But having terrible luck with the quality of the drives being shipped. The first…
Question: I started to get confused on how the hard disk operates, particularly in writing and reading data into its platters. According to this article: http://www.tech-faq.com/how-data-is-stored-in-your-hard-disk.html hard disks write data…
Question: Hi. I have a Seagate 1TB internal hard disk which is dead for like over a month. Lost hope that I could recover some data. Until I noticed a…
Question: My laptop was recently damaged on the side where the hard drive is located and now I cannot access its Windows partition. I am able to boot into Linux.…
Question: Hello, Both my SSD’s have been making these weird sounds, the one in the video is brand new. I’ve held the SSD against my ear when it was plugged…
Question: I have an external drive plugged in to my MacPro via eSATA. At the moment, the disk only mounts if I log in. Since I am using the computer…
Question: Hi – I have a 6 month old LaCie STFY10000400 10 TB d2 Professional Thunderbolt 3 hard drive, it’s been great until this morning when I tried to access…