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good evening dear friends :) I was looking at Amazon and some electronic distributors for a long term cold storage device. Well - belive me: traditionally I've always gone with HDD but since SSD prices have dropped significantly, So i'm wondering if it is worth going for a SSD now...

dear friends, good day,:) well its a storage thing: the question i have is: should I set up a NAS or should i to the cheap way: just add hard drives to a desktop to increase my storage? I want to expand my storage. Previously I had just 400 or so GB off my hard drive for example for...

g day dear experts well i am trying to get some basic skills - skills on the command line: well guess on a sidenote: Anyone should be able to do this. Background: When doing a new distro install, I i am sometimes asked to do some partitioning: well - i often let the installer handle...

I have an Orico enclosure case model 25pw1 and a Seagate ST500LM030 HDD, the case contains a sponge I think its material is EVA and the manual says to place this sponge in the lower part of the case but this sponge in direct contact with the lower part of the HDD and the exposed flat cable, will...

In the Seagate ST500LM030, Western Digital WDC WD10JPVX-08JC3T5 and HGST HDD HTS541010A99E662 HDDs, what types of memory technology are used to store firmware/BIOS?

HDD if SMART is reset or the firmware changed by someone to not show errors, can the quick scan of the HDD surface detect that these changes have occurred and reveal the true health status of the HDD? I have HDDs Kesu Aliexpress

files that are saved on an archive HDD, any software to test all these files on the HDD and show if any have been corrupted? zip rar 7z files, exe, img, folders, bin, msi...

2.5" HDD + USB/SATA adapter on the front port of the PC I performed a surface scan with HD Tune without red blocks. After the test, and using the PC, the same HDD disconnected and reconnected a few times with the Windows 10 sound. This disconnection (eject) followed by connection causes bad...

I am using two 2.5" Seagate HDs + aluminum case on the PC's USB 3.0 port. I opened Crystal DiskInfo and both are in good health, but I tried to do a complete scan for errors on the HD using SeaTools. The scan aborts at 3% and the drives disconnect from my computer. Crystal Disk Info and SeaTools...

Could someone well-versed in software security explain to me "realistic" results of the following theoretical situation? I have a laptop with win 10 infected intentionally by an average programmer to steal user's data. I also have an external SSD with Win 10, installed and set-up on a...

Hello! i was wondering that will my hdd get ruined because i am keeping it on for like 9 hrs. a day : | and i have 1 current pending sector too, is it bad? and im experiencing the diagnosing pc every time i boot up i started happening since the day i got 1 current pending sector is my hdd...

I have two storages, my 512 GB SSD (C: ) for my OS, and my 1TB HDD (D: )for games and anything else. My 1TB HDD is the issue here. I bought this HDD brand new 5 years ago for my gaming PC, and now the HDD is no longer accessible by my PC. When I go to "this PC" I noticed that my HDD drive...

Firstly, I'm not a native speaker so probably I will make mistakes in this post. My problem is as it says in the title Game textures loading slow.For example I can see the grasses in front of me loading or spawn of NPC's.But here's something you need to know, Water was spilled(or poured) on the...

Hello, I already have a SSD Samsung 860 EVO 256GB and old HDD Hitachi 500GB. I want to replace the HDD. I'm thinking of buying a SSHD Seagate Firecude 2 TB but I read many not good reviews about SSHD. So I'm thinking of buying a HDD Seagate Barracuda 2TB + SSD WD Blue 500GB. Currently the SSD...

Hello, I want to upgrade my RAM from 16 GO to 32 GO, and setup an SSD with my existing HDD. I used crucial scan software to get the list of all supported RAM & SSD for my Asus G11CD-K (desktop) and here is the link: https://www.crucial.com/scanview/E23445F331D926C3 My questions are : for RAM...

I've a failed RAID drive , for which I wish to replace the faulty 4TB drive. AFAIK , the replacement drive has to exactly the same in size as the dead one. Off topic: I've a few questions on that particular RAID, which I would like to ask in a separate thread. The failed drive has the...

Hi. I'm considering getting a Phanteks Eclipse P300A (http://www.phanteks.com/Eclipse-P300A.html) for my next build. One thing I'm concerned about - I do intend to populate the 2 bottom trays with 3.5" HDDs. However, it seems there is no fan sending air in their direction, leading to...

so i got a new Samsung Evo 860 SSD replaced my primary laptop storage. works great. fast boot. as i get used to it, i came along discussions on the dos and donts of using ssd storage and one of them is avoid too much changes like writing on the ssd. as a result, i have relocated Windows' temp...

Does anyone know of any utility / program for Windows that would show which drives are spun down? or allow individual timeout spin down control for each HDD? Ideally i'd like a log of when my drives are spinning up / down.

Kinda long shot, but is there a defrag program out there that can move bigger files to the beginning of the HDD where read speeds are faster? I know it would take forever to defrag and it's of no use to the average user but it would be a great help to me :)