hdd activity

3 seagates , all of them 160gb , one of them is pipeline seagate, i get knocks in it when delete a file or when access the drive or click a shortcut to that drive , so i read that it might have that advanced power management apm abled .so then came across reading about load/unload cycles , but i...

I recently bought my friend's system as he was moving abroad and I have had some concurrent issues with my motherboard. Before I switched hardware all drives worked and had 95%+ on crystalDisc. Now, my two M.2's and two SSD's work fine, but my two HDD's will not read. I have two questions...

I have about 6 PC with the HDD that needs to be changed because of the bad sector, some of them didn't even detect anymore, so I want to change it, Since these PC will only use an Ms. Office program and an ERP software that mostly only uses LAN to fetch data, can I use a cheap HDD like Skyhawk...

Hello everyone! Once again, a question with a weird HDD situation arises. I've built a secondary, low-cost pc to set up as a local server/work station, and so far everything has been going smoothly... until the HDD part came. I installed a copy of windows using the download tool Windows...

After upgrading from 8.1 to windows 10 i have horrible hdd performance. System PID 4 process is constantly writing and reading to hard drive, i've checked procmon and its showing activity by (C:\$Mft ; C:\$Mft::$BITMAP ; C:\$Logfile; C:\$Extend\$UsnJnrl:$J and also System Volume Information)...

i wanted to buy a new processor but i have not thought between i5 or i7