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    What use are SMR HDD's

    Shingled Magnetic Recording drives have a bad name, and rightly so if you need to write continuously for more than a couple of minutes, because the firmware just can't cope and frequently grinds to a halt for a few seconds. As someone who always buys NAS HDD's for their longevity and durability...
  2. Windows 10 Hardrives not running at correct speed.

    First off, thank you for your post. This driver installs properly and the disks attached to the controller are working, but not at the 6Gb/s speed that they should. Any ideas before I have to go back to Win7?
  3. Hard Drive Benchmark Patterns

    A question that has been bouncing around my head for years, is that when benchmarking any hard drive, it always produces the same general pattern...a gradually declining slope with regularly spaced dips across the entire slope. I just don't understand why those dips exist, because it doesn't...
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    Windows 7 Get Rotation Speed of Disk Sample Code

    Hi all! Im not really good at VC++ but does anyone have a sample code to get the rotation speed of disk in a computer. I have been working on detecting SSD drives and one solution from researching all day was to get the rotation speed and since SSD have 0 rpm this might be the only way to detect...
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    Windows 7 Low Windows 7 32bit experience index

    Helo, I have lenovo G555, witch has a AMD Athlon II Dual Core M320 proccessor, after i runed Windows expirience index rating, memory, graphics and disc had a subscore between 4,7 and 6,1 witch is ok. But the proccessor had only 2,9 what is very low, because my 8 year old AMD Athlon XP 1800+...