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Old 2.5" HDDs from 2013 park the read/write heads in how many seconds after ejecting (safely removing hardware) in Windows? I use HDD + enclosure case USB3.0 My 2.5" HDD models are: HGST HTS541010A99E662 and Western Digital WD10JPVX-08JC3T5 I asked WD and they are not authorized to provide...

If you eject the 2.5" HDD + enclosure case USB3.0 in Windows 10 and then hit the HDD case with your hand, will it damage it and generate bad blocks? Did the shock move the HDD on the table?

Hi folks, I'm after some advice in terms of prepping HDDs for sale. I have a number of drives which I've upgraded from my NAS. They're currently piled up in my office, as I'm unsure how to go about prepping them for resale. When I had a tower PC, I'd just add the drive to the tower and erase...

Explaining Computers has a comprehensive video on storage media life expectancy. Lots of useful links below the video too.

Happy Weekend All! I currently run on a 500GB SSD with a 1TB HDD. I think (but am not sure) I am doing the right thing by having my games installed on the SSD rather than the HDD. The issue now (the system is from 2018) is that many of the games I play are >100GB and as such I can't have many...

Hi there! I have both a smaller (500MB) SSD and larger (2TB) HDD and am wondering whether I should change over the HDD to SSD to improve general PC/gaming performance. Is this even possible? I've read about cloning the drive. Specs (let me know if I should include other info in this and I...

Evening All! I would like to ask for some help relating to a cloning issue, which is doing my head in! But first, some short background: I have a 12-year old Dell OptiPlex 990 SFF, purchased in 2011. Apart from a couple of years spent in storage, the machine has been left running literally 24/7...

I was looking at HDDs and saw that the Exos 18 TB drive is available in Exos 18 and Exos 20 variants, but was unable to discern the difference. What is the difference? I'm assuming I've missed something obvious.

Hi folks, As title suggests. I would like to replace one (Amber warning) hdd for a new one. I have a 4 slot nas and I'm only using 3 slots, I have 3x 4tb hdd's in JBOD Btrfs. I was thinking it should be possible to slot in a new 4tb hdd (now all 4 slots are occupied) then copy contents to new...

I installed brand new sata HDD (wd black), it is in cage at the bottom of PC case, s.m.a.r.t health check says it is ok, but i hear that weird noise, and i can feel vibration in PC case: https://soundcloud.com/user-653106856/voice-002-sd

Specifically the 16 and 18 TB models? Do they synchronise spindles?

Is there free disk imaging to server software? I want to put a bigger hdd in my computer (that has a mSata drive). So I want to create an image on our server then boot from a USB pen and install the image on the new bigger Hd. Is there any free software that does that?

Hi! I recently bought an 18TB WD Elements External HDD. This drive gives you roughly 16.37TB of useable space. I wanted to use this as a backup drive and used Macrium Reflect to clone an 8TB HDD data drive I have in my desktop to it (I've on a previous occasion used EaseUS to make true backups...

This evening my just over 10 year old Samsung 2TB drive just started clicking and is no longer showing up on my PC. I've not lost anything valuable on it and was shocked how long I have had it. I'm looking at replacing it with a new drive somewhere in the region of 4-8TB capacity. There are a...

Pretty much as the title says! I've recently upgraded my processor/mobo/RAM and went for a mATX board with the hopes of downsizing from my Antec 300-2. There seems to be a lot of nice small form-factor cases out there, but I've had difficulty finding one that enables my data-hoarding...

For the past 4-5 months now my PC has been maxing out it's HDD while under load, mostly while gaming. This is causing games to stutter and lag behind really bad at random points. We have tried all of the common troubleshooting google has to offer like disabling some windows features, playing...

Hi, Looking to get a deal and save some pennies then why not check out the clearance section on our website or just click here. As part of a forum deal I'm looking to open up my b-grade sections to offers. A lot of prices are reduced heavily already so if I can't match the offer I will...

I bought a 4tb Seagate barracuda internal HDD from another site, plugged it in but was completely dead, returned it, they confirmed it was faulty, sent a replacement, plugged the replacement in and it's also dead. No movement or sounds coming from it. I've tried different sata cables and power...

some say it is and some say its got super slow write speeds etc, so i have no idea lol as i thought black drives were made for gaming in mind so it cant be that bad! was going to buy 2, 1 for my xbox1 console and another for my pc as my steam gaming drive or would it be better having internal...

Hi guys, As mentioned in the title, I think it's about time to upgrade my storage (which I installed in 2011) to the RAID setup I've always wanted, and I need some advice as I'm a bit out of my depth! I currently use an old Western Digital 1TB Caviar Black HDD (as seen in the hyperlink) for...