external disk

I have an old external 3.5-inch HDD. For lack of a normal SATA-USB cable, I want to use its enclosure to connect a 2.5-inch SATA SSD to my PC's USB port. The HDD enclosure has a separate AC power cable. When I opened up the enclosure, I saw the AC power goes directly into the PCB, which has a...

My back panel USB ports don't give enough output power to support external disk (2.5"). But the front does. Back port give around 4.0V, front 5.0V. USB ports are 3.1, external disk is 3.0. Ordinary USB is working fine without problems, maybe quickly become hot. Any ideas what could be the...

I connected a hard drive to a smart TV some years ago. The TV broke and is now gone. I really want to access the files on the disk, but the TV formatted the content so that as soon as I plug it in my computer, I am asked to format it. Is there any way to do a backup of the content as it is, and...

Hi There, Apologies if this thread already exists.. I wanted to zip about 500 GB worth of files (mostly images and vids from camera) and then copy them onto my PCs HDD. I started by connecting my WD Passport external HDD (4TB) into my PCs USB 3.0 port. I noticed that as more and more of the...

Hi, I bought an SSD with an enclosure. I have noticed that the SSD gets too hot while using. Now after installing the SSD in the enclosure, there is some clearance between the SSD and the enclosure at the top (approx. 5mm). So I thought that if I could use that clearance by installing some...

I was going to buy a rx 460 but im curious if my cpu will bottleneck from it. Here are my specs: Psu: 230w (yeah i know, im planning to buy a new one psu) Cpu: Amd A6-7400k Mobo: F2A68HM-S1 Gigabyte Ram: 8 gb ddr3