hard drive

Hi all sorry not been on a while illness got the better of me. I’ve searched all over for this info. Most want to remove the lights and I want to add another My plan is to have two hard drive activity lights on the same circuit powered by the motherboard (msi z97s krait edition) which then...

What still using that!? Well not any more - turned it on today and the "loading" flashing light / message on screen is continuous. Have tried powering it on/off etc., factory reset from menu, paper clip reset on bottom of box - these all seem to reset it but then as it begins its power on...

Hi I am looking to build a new pc and the only thing I am stuck on is whether one m.2 SSD (512gb) is enough. I do also have a 1TB external hard drive. Thanks.

Hi I am looking to build a new pc and the only thing I am stuck on is whether one m.2 SSD (512gb) is enough. I do also have a 1TB external hard drive. Thanks.

Pretty simple question but curious as to what people would do. I've got a 970 Evo Plus 2TB that I plan to use for OS + games on my new build. I also have a left over 250gb 860 Evo. What would be the best use for it? More programs? More Games? Video editing drive?

Looking to get reliable 8TB external hard drive with fast write and read speed, to free some space from my internal drive. I will mainly use it to store large video and image files. 1. Seagate Expansion Desktop Hard Drive 8TB HDD External - PC Windows PS4 & Xbox - USB 2.0 & 3.0 Black...

So I recently upgraded my PC completely, the only two things which remained the same were my Nvme ssd and my old HDD. I did put in a new 1tb SSD also for newer games. Currently however every game which i have on my HDD either loads extremely slowly about 20x slower than it used to or it just...

Hi all Can anyone recommend a 3/4/5TB Internal 2.5" Hard drive. All i can seem to find is the seagate barracuda and its around £150 which i think is pretty steep compared to external drives.

https://imgur.com/a/6pHvVfZ Sequential tranfer rate currently(1): Sequential transfer rate in 2015 when I got it(2): Power on hours = 4 years(3) 11 hours spin up time apparently (there are no 198 errors which show under the formatted coloumn, I have a WD10EACS with some bad smart data...

I'm looking to upgrade on the cheap, spending up to about £100 per component, from my obsolete computer to a slightly more relevant one. I would like to be able to use modern game-development platforms such as Unity, Photoshop, 3D editing tools like Blender, video editing software. I don't need...

Hi there, I have an aorus master x570 motherboard with Ryzen 3900x cpu. Currently I have the following drives and I wanted to try and add more in the best way possible. What else can I add? I had someone help put together the spec but they arent around over the next month and with Black...

hi, I currently have all my media across 6 MyBooks ranging from 1-3tb each and all on their own power plugs, but i was wondering about one day learning how these work and how to set them hope but i have no idea where to start or what to buy first but im sure i can use less power by doing it the...

Hi Its been a while since I have been on here - hope you are all ok. So I am trying to transfer my system from a small 80g hard drive to either a 320g hard drive or a 500g hard drive to which I have ended up with 5 drives in my computer.... 2 data drives and 3 system drives however only the...

Hi Guys, I had the following system built for me by OverClockers in 2016. At the time I thought that a 1TB hard drive would be enough, but it seems I was wrong! I'm going to fit a 3TB drive and have opted for the BarraCuda Internal Hard Drive (ST3000DM007) Unless there are recommendations for...

Hi all, My laptop hard drive seems to have failed. The OS stopped booting and I noticed a double click. I assume that it's essentially done for but would like to recover the data. Unfortunately it is not showing up on my computer. I have opened it up and recorded what it is currently doing (in...

Hi, I was doing a deep clean of my house today and found an old PC with two hard drives (1TB and 500GB) and really want to know what's on both and maybe format them again to use as storage. There's no need for these to be plugged into my current PC constantly so I was wondering if you could...

This is really embarrassing for me to ask but I can't seem to find the right answer from browsing motherboards on OCUK site or watching youtube videos. So I'm doing some research on upgrading to a Ryzen build in the future, bare in mind the last time I built a PC was some 10 years ago and have...

Hi, In the future, I was considering installing a 280mm radiator in the front using the Evolv ATX. This requires removing the hard disk tray which is currently populated by one 3TB WD Caviar Black. What enclosure would you recommend as a solution? Cheers.

Ok so my previous laptop is dead (water damaged) and the hard drive from that laptop survived. PC World removed the hard drive for me, and now I want to some how get the data from that old hard drive and transfer it to my new laptop. What’s the easiest way to do it? I’ve seen different docking...

I have recently dropped a 2TB Seagate Barracuda mechanical hard drive. Since this the state of the drive is - it can be detected but no files can be read and most operations are impossible from what I can tell. I had the possibly terrible idea of buying the same model again and transferring...