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Hi everyone, Its been a while since I have used this amazing forum. Been pretty busy so I haven't been going through much computer stuff. I hope you all have a great day. Furthermore I am not aware of any forum rule changes so I apologize if I may have made any mistakes in this current forum. I...

Hello, i need advice because I don't know much about PC hardware. I took the HDD from my old PC to use it in my new one because it has all my work files, but i'm not sure if it's compatible with my new PC. So i want to ask can it be mounted into my motherboard before i open the case, and if not...

I’m mostly starting this thread to figure out if I got screwed, very unlucky - or simply something I’m missing. I bought 2 x 12TB “seagate desktop expansion” units. One died after 1 year; the other I replaced it with, also a year. I suppose died is the wrong term - they still spin up, but then...

Hello, I want to expand my storage, I currently need around 16-20TB of storage. Having that much in M.2 drives is too expensive, so im thinking of buying an HDD (or multiple ones). I have done research and my top picks are the Seagate IronWolf Pro and the Toshiba N300. My question is, how loud...

Hi everyone, Been experiencing issues since this morning booting up my PC, first getting what looked like a warning message at boot in a BIOS screen (unfortunately couldn't capture it). And just now, trying to launch a game I previously had no issues with (The Witcher 3, pretty heavy game), it...

Hello everyone, I’d like to ask for help because I’m not sure whether the problem is the motherboard or something else. Some time ago, I removed one of my two HDDs for one or two days. I had formatted it because I wanted to test it on another PC. In the end, I didn’t even need it, but when I...

I don't wanna use a txt writing software to keep it running, can't I just make this an option in windows power settings? I've tried everything so far and nothings worked.

In the Test & Repair menu, there are two scan modes: Remap and Refresh. I would like to know whether these two modes are designed to repair bad sectors without affecting the data stored on the hard drive. As I understand it, the Erase mode, as the name suggests, actually wipes the affected...

Hello everyone, Unfortunately, I can no longer access the data on my 5TB Seagate HDD... The situation is as follows: I had two 5TB Seagate One Touch hard drives, but only one of them (Drive X) was encrypted with LUKS. Because I also wanted to encrypt the other drive, which I had bought just a...

I've bought one WD Purple 1TB drive for fun, because it was selling for approx 6 usd. (Seller had 2 of them) The partition creation and installing was easy, just another 1 terabyte. But the SMART? It's something interesting (Imgur [vulgarity redacted] has degraded performance so no photo right...

Looks like it has a USB Type-B plug, and, of all things, a PS/2 mouse connector. won't let me embed for some reason so here's the link View: https://imgur.com/gallery/post-XMqo1CY

Sorry if this is a bit unorthodox for this forum, I just really needed help with this, all my hard drives keep making random beeping noises all the time which I was told was read/write error noise. Because it's not a specific one I have no clue what's wrong, i repalced 2 of them and still the...

Hello guys, I'm really confused on what to get. I need HDD or sata SSD for my pictures videos that I want to keep but I don't know how good that is I have found this HDD https://www.pcgarage.ro/hard-disk-uri/seagate/barracuda-2tb-sata-iii-7200rpm-256mb/ And this SSD...

Hello, Instead of buying an external hard drive, you can convert a laptop hard drive into an external hard drive with a conversion box, which is more cost-effective. Is this the right thing to do? Thank you.

So I got WD My Book Duo a long time ago which came with 2x WD Red 4TB. So far no issues. I recently decided to upgrade it to 2x WD Red Plus 8TB. I used WD Drive Utilities' "Drive Status Check", "Quick Drive Test", and "Complete Drive Test" on each of these drives and they both passed all the...

Hello Tom's Hardware Community, I'm hoping I can get some expert advice on a long-term and very frustrating performance issue with my PC that has made it unreliable. I'm dealing with what I can only describe as a system drive "stroke." System Specifications: OS: Windows 11 Pro (Recently...

Hello, I have a nearly new 2.5" HDD. I only use it for backups. The drive is 2 years old (no longer under warranty). I was running a backup today. I had also run Crystal Disk Info just before to see the number of hours of use. The drive's status was GOOD, with no defects or problems. The...

Hi, I recently purchased a 6 TB external Elements HDD, exFAT formatted. The problem is that it is extremely slow. To copy 2 TB to the disk in USB 3.1 it will take >36 days! What can be the cause of this? Thanks!

Hi there. I've recently got unknown message from windows out of nowhere "Restart PC to fix drive problems" - It was on different language, that's my translation. Drive SMART isn't faulty and "good". What does that mean? How to properly check drive for errors? I've tried using chkdsk but I...

Imagine an external hdd like a wd elements or my book, should it lay vertically or horizontally? What's the best position for the components? The studs are are the bottom of the case but I can't imagine having a spinning hard drive vertically is going to be good on the components or noise...

I had saved my word document on a laptop with Windows 10. I went to transfer it to a separate HDD drive. When I went to plug in the drive on another computer to open it on the other computer (with Windows 11), when I opened it, it said that it cannot locate the file. I tried using Autorecover...

I searched this question in internet, i found some articles about "click of death" but... Give a me a hope if that is not it. The Problem: I have two of exact those drives, they are used as auxilliary, the system is located on some Toshiba P300 HDD which has no such sounds. (Ye i'm using HDD...

Hi, as the title suggests, i bought 2x 12TB Seagate Barracuda Pro Compute drives from an ebay seller with great ratings. Once i got them i instantly ran a long/"extended offline" SMART test, and they looked fine. I heard about all the fake/broken/... drives lately and got a little scared, so i...

hello guys i just bought a brand NEW Seagate Ironwolf Pro 8 TB from Amazon when checking SMART attributes i found suspicious bad values for " Read error rate and Seek error rate " could anyone explain or Confirm this and what should i do Seagate Tools Hard Disk Sentinel Crystal Disk Info

Hi Internet, I come to you in times of need. I don't know how to connect the data from my HDDs to my raspberry pi. I've thought of this many, many ways and I just don't see how it's possible. Maybe you can come up with an idea? This is my setup: Raspberry pi 1 (2014) 7 HDDs (I'd like to use...

As the title states 1 specific game that I have saved on my NVME gives me a fatal error where as when I move it to my SATA HDD it launches perfectly fine. However, other games on that same NVME launch fine with 0 issues. The game in question is FF7 Rebirth, strangely enough I was playing the...

Hello everyone, I would like to know which HDD is the better for my usage or will last me the longest, knowing that I will use them only to store informations and so they will probably increase few hundreds hours per years and few opening-closing cycles each year. I was proposed one SATA...

I have Seagate Barracuda, can't find exact model. It seems like it died this morning. At first Intel Rapid Storage made a prompt saying that it is disabled, I did not pay much attention to it, when discovered a bit later that this disk is absent from my system. I rebooted it, and my system got...

I accidentally knocked my Seagate external HDD off my desk. It would not connect to my pc afterwards so I swapped the cable and when that didn't work I removed it from the case and plugged it to a HDD dock. It made a not normal whining/grindy type sound, gave me a error that read something...

Hello, I have a Seagate Exos 7E10 10TB and Exos 7E8 4TB both are formatted to NTFS as I used them on windows before. Now I am planning to shift to macOS. Both drives have data in them, I am planning to shift the data of these 2 drives and format them to APFS or HFS+ for macOS. I have done...

Is this normal? The HDDs are connected to a MacBook Air M1 via a USB C HDD enclosure. Stardom i310-B31 I connected with Seagate Support and the customer agent says that it needs to be replaced. For people who cannot see the video please view it here: Imgur Link

I have an HP 17-cp0700dx laptop that I want to wipe and reinstall Window 10 on. I have little knowledge on M.2 drives. This computer has a Western Digital PC SN530 NVMe SDD. I have many questions about how to do this. It has been a while since I work on any new computer. I need to be updated...

I'm building a homelab which will run Proxmox. It will have a couple of VMs: TrueNAS and a plain Linux host with some Docker containers including a media server. I plan to use an i5-12400 for this for its QSV capability but I'm having issues understanding PCIe lanes and potential expansion for...

Hi i have a 2TB ADATA External HDD it gives slow write speeds [8-12MB/s] but high read speeds [85-110MB/s] tried different cables, different computers and ports. but the same results. I tested small files, and big files. different type of files I checked the disk with different softwares...

Context: I've just installed a M.2 SSD 500GB (Aorus Gen 4) with a separate Windows 10 OS as I was planning to migrate my games over from my old HDD. My old setup consisted of 1TB HDD (a generic WD 3.5' blue drive) Everything seem to be working correctly until the day after where upon...

I would be grateful if you could help me find out how the HDD is fixed inside DeLOCK 42612. https://www.delock.com/produkt/42612/merkmale.html I saw some small screws in one of the images, and one comment mentioned that after installation, the cushions would obstruct the removal of the screws +...

I tried to take out this hdd from a laptop and accidentally scratched a deep cut as such. BIOS still detect the hdd just fine, but installing Windows in it would result in BSOD everytime, i tried to install Kali Linux in it and it's fully operational and normal until i restart my pc, and now...

Hello so i need help deciding on what storage i should choose. I don't know is m.2 is better for gaming than a normal ssd. either this, https://www.overclockers.co.uk/wd-black-sn770-2tb-ssd-m.2-2280-nvme-pcie-4.0-solid-state-drive-wds200t3x0-hd-58g-wd.html or this...

The drive is supposed to be new so I don't understand these s.m.a.r.t values. Device Model: WDC WD80EDAZ-11CEWB0 Is it CMR or SMR? Sadly WD refused to elaborate. The smart data doesn't display whether TRIM is supported so I honestly don't know. SMART OUTPUT: conducted on a Pi 4 via USB...

Hi there, I recently bought a refurbished 12TB drive. Formatted the drive (took a whole night) and it went smooth. Now I used GSmartControl to take a closer look. But I have no clue, what all the numbers mean. Is the drive safe to use? Here are some images showing the data...