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    Should I buy wireless wifi adapter or wired ethernet adapter ?

    My PC's Ethernet port is damaged... My setup is like this - Internet cable on router and router cable on PC's Ethernet port but as it's damaged now I need either USB to Ethernet or Wireless Wifi adapter I'm using this router currently - http://amzn.in/d/a25soFg This are my two choices (USB...
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    How long my WD Blue 1TB hard disk will last in powered off condition ?

    I have total 3 WD Blue 1 TB internal hard disk and currently I'm using 1 of them. Other 2 is not connected to my PC because at this time I don't need them, they are on HDD tray but not connected with power and SATA cable. So, I was wondering how long they will be good in this condition ? For few...
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    Why WD and Seagate don't enter into SSD market ?

    I know Seagate has released SSD but why they are not ramping up their SSD production like Samsung, Sandisk etc... ? They both are stuck into hard disk...
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    My hard disk is running slow but in benchmark results it works like flash ! plzz help

    Update - Problem Solved :) Now all HDDs are performing at top speed. "Compress this drive to save disk space" was checked on drive properties. I have unchecked it and all the drives are working at full speed :) I'm using two WD Caviar Blue 1TB and both are behaving almost same :( In benchmark...
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    Should I Replace my 5 days old WD 1 TB drive which got bad sector ?

    I'm using WD Caviar Blue 1 TB (WD10EZEX). But today HD Tune and Hard Disk Sentinel found 1 bad sector on it - And after running "chkdsk /r M:" command bad sector count was increased to 5 My question is - 1. Now should I replace the drive ? 2. Is bad sector appearing because of old SATA ? (The...
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    Why My One Hard Disk Is Performing Slower Than Another (Both Are From WD) ?

    Hello, Just bought two 1 TB WD Caviar Blue. But one drive is performing slower than another in every benchmark test... I have installed those hard disk with new SATA cable and both are formatted to NTFS.. See it yourself -> This drive performs faster -> but another one which is also the same...
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    Is it true that a Hard Drive will get damaged if I shake it ?

    Recently ordered this WD Drive - http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/B0088PUEPK?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s02 Now it's in transit, my question is when the product is in transit, it will receive a lot of shake and vibration.. Now, will that cause damage to the Hard Disk ? You...
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    Having difficulties to understand Wear Count of my Samsung 850 Evo.. Kindly Help

    Hello, Almost 5 months ago I had bought Samsung 850 EVO 120GB SSD.. Now it's showing Wear Leveling Count at 177... Is this normal for it to show value of 177 with almost 1.85 TB data written ? My Samsung 850 Pro 512GB is around 4 month's old but not showing any wear level like the 850 EVO...