hard drives

As we move further into the digital age, storing data effectively has become more crucial than ever. Windows 11 users fortunate enough to have multiple hard drives available may want to consider spooling them together to create a larger, more manageable volume. This article dives deep into how...

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...

I been in the market for new drives for my win10 system and I have always had WD blue drives but I been eyeing WD black drives. But the reviews of the reliability are mixed on amazon and best buy reviews. I have one older model of the WD black and I going to install it and test it with smart and...

Do's anybody on here use Solid-State Drives , instead of hard drives . I bought one a few years ago its a samsung model 500GD . It was pretty expensive when i bought it .

I have multiple hard drives. I use some for data storage (music, etc). I reinstalled windows 10 pro on the C drive and I'm having trouble writing to and sometimes deleting files in a directory on the D drive (different physical drive). I'm logged in as the default account with administrator...

Are the Samsung Evo SSD 500GB 860 and the 870 interchangeable so I can just swap them out without conflict? I could either format the new or create a new simple volume, or better yet recover a Macrium image? TY

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Hi Everyone, A charity where I volunteer has an HPE ProLiant DL60 Gen9 Server. It is equipped with 2 hard drives 1TB SATA configured in raid 1. Raid: HPE Dynamic Smart Array B140i RAID Controller The installed operating system is Windows Server 2012 R2. When the server starts up, I come...

Dear Anyone. I know this is stoopid and I should know the answer, be kind! I've got 2 external hard drives attached to my Win10 machine. One's gone dodgy. I know PHYSICALLY which of the 2 it is, so I want to copy all the data from it to the other one BUT - I don't know how to tell which...

is it possible to Delete Hd's through WDS ? im working in pc produktion and we need some Way delete the HD's in the pc's. i read somewhere that it's possible to make a custom WinPE file to do this in a WDS. environment ? if it is possible then plz post a link for me :)

I been in the market for new drives for my win10 system and I have always had WD blue drives but I been eyeing WD black drives. But the reviews of the reliability are mixed on amazon and best buy reviews. I have one older model of the WD black and I going to install it and test it with smart and...

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Is it safe to keep hard drives and flash drives connected all the time (Windows 10), even when shutting down everyday ... ? Or should I use the Eject feature to be safe ... ?

Toshiba laptop, W10 Home, Ver 1803 I have 2 external hard drives. When I plug either of them into a USB port I hear the normal beep sound, indicating they've been recognized but they don't automatically play, even though auto play is enabled . They don't even show up in "this PC", as if they...

Hello all , another 2 problems . The first one is Windows activation , I bought a windows 10 pro dvd and was going to install I all my hard-drives . This is the last it was well used I liked this drive a lot . When I fired the drive up ( it has been standing a while ) , I got a message saying ...

Seems to be several opinions on this as I Google, so thought to ask you all here as well for your thoughts. Lenovo P51S with Ultradock. Two USB hard drives attached to the dock. Both set for "Quick Removal" in Device Manager. Do I need to "safely remove" these drives before hot undocking and...

Hey, guys. I am currently dealing with the annoyance of my PC booting into bios whenever I try to start it up. After I exit the bios, it then boots into windows but this is causing my PC to slow down tremendously because I have an SSD cache. The cache gets wiped every single time this happens...

I'm trying to understand the nature of virus/malware/ransomware to better apply my backup strategies. So here are some questions I have: Question Scenario #1 - Lets say I have 2 internal hard drives connected to my PC. One with Windows10 installed and the other one with Linux installed. I use...

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?

Backing up on ssd would be safer than hdd because no moving parts correct? So ssd failure rate is lower so just wondering how is it possible to lose data on ssd?