Tag: hard-drive

28 Will a 7mm SSD fit in a 9.5mm laptop HDD slot? 2012-01-06T19:47:32.823

28 How do software programs determine the HDD temperature? 2013-04-28T19:48:12.470

28 Can a massive MySQL data import on an SSD damage it? 2015-04-24T14:12:24.863

28 Hard disk only recognized if it has already spun up 2015-08-23T07:38:12.430

28 What is this 48-pin laptop hard drive connector? 2020-02-24T20:40:56.213

27 Running Spinrite from a USB drive? 2010-06-18T09:43:00.293

27 How to resize the primary Windows XP partition? 2010-11-27T06:37:19.733

27 What is the maximum number of partitions that can be made on a hard drive? 2011-12-15T03:34:19.467

27 Firefox writes megabytes of data per minute to disk, why? 2012-03-11T13:22:20.857

27 Windows 8 extremely high disk usage and slow IO 2013-05-03T20:35:40.333

27 How do I retrieve a product key from another hard drive? 2013-08-25T22:28:00.523

27 Windows 8 hard disk usage 100% 2013-09-24T22:02:00.417

27 How can I shrink my 12GB pagefile.sys? 2014-01-13T16:10:36.227

27 Hard drives and types -- what makes them so different? 2014-03-05T16:22:25.143

27 Would these magnets be enough to damage a portable HDD? 2016-02-15T08:07:01.167

27 Is it safe to use a HDD while rsync is running? 2017-01-31T09:31:00.280

26 Is there a way for Windows 7 to show remaining disk space in the status bar? 2009-08-06T20:05:22.153

26 Tool to copy files of HDD with bad sectors 2010-01-03T19:44:51.533

26 Why Do Some USB Cables Have Two USB Connectors at the End? 2010-09-29T11:03:30.800

26 combining SSD and hard disk in software RAID1? 2011-06-05T10:36:47.810

26 Why is Windows constantly spinning up my secondary HDD? 2013-03-04T21:02:23.453

26 What is the tolerable magnetic field (in Tesla) for a hard disk? 2013-03-19T13:47:24.150

25 What does 'Highest active time' for disk activity in Windows resource monitor mean? 2009-09-23T16:26:42.160

25 How to check the partition alignment on an SSD drive? 2010-04-18T13:36:32.280

25 Power consumption: SSD vs HDD 2013-04-30T15:18:03.430

25 ZFS Beginner Setup with Different Size Drives 2013-07-20T23:55:18.993

25 Hazardous materials in a hard drive 2014-05-08T20:35:28.087

25 Is a 7200rpm USB 3.0 drive going to have very similar performance to an internal 7200rpm drive or is it still going to be noticeably slower? 2015-05-25T11:53:35.737

24 How much does a gigabyte worth of data physically weigh on a hard disk? 2009-07-23T13:45:51.900

24 Fix bad blocks on Mac hard disk 2010-06-02T21:52:05.997

24 How do I delete a VM in VirtualBox when the hard drive the VDI file was on is deleted? 2010-06-27T19:12:34.020

24 How to fill a hard drive in Linux 2010-12-17T15:22:55.827

24 What are the differences between MBR vs GPT vs any other partition scheme? 2011-08-17T20:49:44.810

24 Why are so few SSD 3.5 inches? 2012-03-08T18:53:23.650

24 Why is windows not able to create a system partition? 2012-07-02T20:53:50.970

24 Can hard drives fully utilize SATA III? 2012-07-24T22:33:26.457

24 What do different values of hard drive's Advanced Power Management feature (hdparm -B) affect, except spin-down? 2013-02-21T17:27:00.323

24 How to correct 512-byte sector MBR on a 4096-byte sector disk? 2013-11-23T14:10:43.863

24 5400rpm HDD speeds in a USB 3.0 connectivity enclosure 2016-03-15T12:46:53.327

24 Confusion with storage capacity (powers of 10 and 2) 2016-05-25T09:48:36.700

24 Is it safe to change the harddrive power feature so that it never turns off? 2019-06-06T01:07:36.393

24 What's the purpose of the "Capacity" selection in the "Format Volume" dialog? 2020-02-02T07:03:50.417

23 Why are my hard drives failing? 2010-01-20T22:45:59.537

23 Why do different manufacturers have different S.M.A.R.T value? 2010-06-11T02:55:47.040

23 Is it possible to format a hard-drive too often? 2011-06-14T01:38:29.810

23 Where do deleted items go on the hard drive? 2011-06-23T20:38:55.933

23 Are 3.5 inch SSD drives available? Why so many 2.5inch versions? 2012-07-18T13:19:02.647

23 When should I use SATA 6gb/s? 2012-08-28T15:37:56.710

23 Which drive is \Device\Harddisk1\DR1? 2013-01-19T10:51:20.093

23 How to limit HDD write speed for chosen programs 2014-08-11T16:23:56.137

23 Hard drive clicking for 16 times during startup 2015-11-24T05:11:27.057

23 On which physical drive is this logical drive? 2016-11-18T12:36:13.137

23 What are the end bytes of *.docx file format 2019-09-16T16:46:14.870

22 What is the lifetime of a typical hard disk? 2009-09-07T10:01:59.120

22 What is the quickest and best way to copy a 500 GB drive? 2011-02-11T15:14:17.917

22 which file type to install my virtual hard disk in while installing a new machine on virtualbox? 2012-03-13T17:39:00.927

22 diagnosing 100 percent disk usage in windows 10 2015-08-19T11:42:48.403

22 WinDirStat shows 244GB unknown space on external drive 2015-08-30T09:15:02.760

22 Quickest way to wipe an SSD clean of all its partitions for repartitioning in Linux? 2018-01-11T08:49:42.870

22 Will buffer be automatically flushed to disk when a process exits? 2018-01-25T12:41:33.080

22 Extra battery in the bay of an HDD 2019-10-06T17:31:53.980

21 Is defragging relevant to improving disk performance anymore? 2009-07-15T23:20:45.967

21 How to move from one drive to another that's a different size? 2009-07-23T14:30:06.063

21 What is the easiest method of checking SMART status for your hard drive? 2009-07-29T02:21:47.837

21 Can a mirrored (RAID-1) disk be plugged into another system to be read? 2009-12-16T04:53:13.693

21 Can I connect and disconnect a SATA harddrive while my computer is running? 2010-12-11T21:48:26.203

21 Using “badblocks” on modern disks 2013-01-04T16:44:56.890

21 How to connect multiple HDDs to a computer? 2013-04-03T11:46:18.837

21 Are partitions to the inner/outer edge significantly faster 2013-09-09T17:45:11.623

21 Desmistifiying SATA hotplug 2015-06-09T20:05:36.807

21 Does a hard drive remember bad sectors after formatting? 2016-04-01T23:02:28.237

21 Does partitioning hard drives into a smaller partition than the actual size make it perform better objectively? 2018-11-12T17:51:32.550

21 How do PCIe to SATA expansion cards work, and does my PC support them? 2018-11-27T01:06:03.140

20 Does storage capacity affect hard drive performance? 2009-08-11T22:18:26.167

20 Why does a SATA hard drive have jumpers? 2009-10-16T17:29:59.857

20 How can I enable AHCI on a SATA drive after installing Windows? 2010-02-19T16:58:50.787

20 How can I use an old PATA hard disk drive on my newer SATA-only computer? 2008-08-01T21:22:13.110

20 How can I resolve the error "MediaKit reports partition (map) too small"? 2011-01-15T05:54:19.230

20 How many passes do you need to wipe/shred your files to make them not undeletable? 2011-04-13T22:32:34.027

20 Are all basic SATA drives equally reliable? 2011-06-11T15:25:55.093

20 Is it faster to have two smaller hard drives or one big one? 2011-08-20T22:56:57.303

20 Clone a Windows Installation to a 3TB Hard Drive; MBR to GPT 2012-07-01T09:52:49.540

20 Can a single volume be assigned multiple drive letters? 2012-10-28T06:53:44.150

20 Filesystem compatible with GNU/Linux and Mac 2012-12-23T23:34:36.403

20 Does formatting really remove everything on a physical hard drive? 2016-07-31T15:36:37.957

20 The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes 2016-10-03T12:52:04.120

19 What do the different colours of the SATA ports on my motherboard mean? 2009-09-07T05:37:32.993

19 How to increase the disk cache of Windows 7 2010-08-24T13:00:32.903

19 6Gb/s SATA hard drive with 3Gb/s SATA port? 2011-02-06T20:05:28.213

19 Matched or unmatched drives for RAID arrays? 2011-03-15T15:00:16.657

19 How to check if my eSATAp port provides 12V power? 2012-06-12T11:57:57.797

19 How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector? 2013-01-10T01:08:03.967

19 What do you call the place on a hard drive (or motherboard, or anywhere else) to place jumpers? 2014-11-24T04:04:18.430

18 Why are hard drives never as large as advertised? 2009-07-15T09:06:15.563

18 How to measure disk performance? 2009-08-19T14:19:37.680

18 Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size? 2009-11-18T04:45:34.017

18 Should I store my code/projects on my SSD or my secondary drive? 2010-05-17T20:08:47.097

18 Immediately spin down a HDD on Windows 2010-11-23T13:31:54.460

18 Cross platform Hard Disk encryption? 2011-05-19T08:14:59.133