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Hi there i have an old dell vostro 5481 with i5 8th gen , 1tb hdd, windows 11, 2x4gb ram ddr4 Recently i removed one of my ram sticks for some reason and now with only 4gb ram my pc ran normally without any errors for some time, then i reinstalled my old ram back and windows won't boot now. i...

My current HDD is getting quite old so I'm looking to replace it with a new 8tb-12tb drive. The ones I'm currently looking at are: https://www.newegg.com/black-wd8002fzwx-8tb/p/N82E16822234500 (WD Black 8tb) https://www.newegg.com/seagate-firecuda-st8000dx001-8tb/p/N82E16822185036 (Seagate...

[First - how it happened:] On my Windows 10 Enterprise 20H2 x64 I have 2 archival HDDs with different letters assigned to them which I keep offline: 3.5" Western Digital Ultrastar DC HC550 18TB 7200 RPM 512 MB cache [0F38459] and its smaller counterpart DC HC550 16TB [0F38460] I have been...

Hi y'all! I updated my mobo from Asus B350 Prime Plus to Asus TUF Gaming B550 Plus and since neither of my SATA disks are detected by BIOS or Windows. I have enabled CSM as many guides.. well, guide and every SATA port (?) individually in the BIOS. Tried a different power cable as a long...

Hi, Recently my HDD had started to misbehave. It was working fine until it started to make some clicking and beeping sound. I saw a video regarding the similar issue with a fix. But that doesn't seem to work. However I have recorded a small video of it. Hope someone can help me fix it ...

I have three USB hard drives connected to my Windows 10 desktop (two Western Digital Passports and one Seagate NAS drive). They have started sporadically autoplaying at Windows boot (opening a folder). Sometimes it's just one, sometimes it's all three...and sometimes it's none (go figure)! I'm...

I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but google doesn't seem to get me the answer I am looking for since the question is a bit confusing. Is it possible to get a new Ssd/hdd, take the one I am currently using out and install an OS (let's say windows) on the new one I just...

Dear everyone, My problem is that last night I fall asleep while watching some movie(online), my laptop battery drained. Today morning I woke up and suddenly my laptop can't boot the windows. I can hear a little beeping, probably the motherboard because of the failure. The system can't...

Hi, I can't setup a raid because, if i set the SATA Mode to RAID from AHCI, after i make a restart then my PC completely stuck on the motherboard splash screen. That means i can't boot to windows or a bootable pendrive, or even back to bios. If i short my cmos pins, and my bios gets resetted...

Hi Ive been using it like that for a year and no issues or any strange sound knowing that these drives are usually loud (2 x toshiba p300 2tb) I just wondered if its norma that I can shake hdd up and down in its place like that. Btw my case is a deepcool eshield.

Hy guys! I would like your help, because for some reason the game is not smooth(CSGO,CS1.6, and whatever fps) and I have a G-sync 240hz monitor, and I think something needs to be set in the bios, but I don't know, Windows was installed today. I attached the rest below. Thank you for the help...

I am having some temperature issues. Can Silver Thermal Paste be applied on the HDD? Thanks in advance!

Hi, recently am facing a problem i didn't face before. sometimes when am running my pc, the pc shut down themselves automatically Without any interference from me, what happens after is that he doesn't boot again and enter to the SSD (Windows installed on the SSD). When i enter the BIOS i can't...

My HDD is split into 2 partitions, one partition E: is working perfectly fine at +100mbps speed writing and reading, the other partition D: has this issue, basically the transfer speed (writing only) is between 1-8 Mbps, and the HDD gets to 100% usage on the simplest tasks like moving a 100mb...

Dear TomsHardware Community I'm new in here so hallo. I would like to ask some questions, i have 2.5 inch orico sata enclosure I would like to put storage in it. But I have questions about durability for the data, some people say HDD more durable some statistics like Blackblaze say SSD more...

I have a Dell OptiPlex 9020 (running Windows 10) with a 250 GB hard drive. I want to upgrade to either 1 TB or 2 TB, and am unsure as to whether I should get a hard drive or a SSD. I understand that SSDs are quicker and can speed up the system, but as I run my computer virtually 24/7, I'm...

Hello everyone, I hope someone will be able to help me find out if I've bought a broken HDD. Short of it is I bought a HDD, it wouldn't show in 'my computer' yet the docking station appears fine. I can't initialize or do much with it. I'll add some images for context with a breakdown (inserting...

Hello guys, I have a WD Black 1TB hdd and the sata 3 connector broke along with one of the pins. Is it possible to swap the drive's board with one of a similar drive without transferring the bios chip? I don't care about data loss since i keep backups regularly. Thank you.

I recently bought 5TB Western Digital, brand new, no issues, installation went smoothly, mainly used to store movies and TV show, since I have no internet on board (I'm a sailor). I wanted to take some classic old movies from a colleague and once he returned it to me, my HDD was useless. It...

I have a 2TB training dataset to run in my desktop PC with 4 nvidia rtx2080ti graphics cards. This entire 2TB dataset is going to be continuously read from the disk (without break) at each training epoch and there are 200 epochs to train (total training time is estimated as two months). My...

Hello All, I am wondering if this board could be added to a PC and be powered by the current PSU? If so are there any adapter cables that can utilise spare Molex cables and turn them in to a 10 pin EPS ( I think its an EPS ). Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Cheers See pics below, If...

Hello, So i was looking for Seagate BarraCuda pro 14 to 18 Tb HDD but i can't find it here in Canada or any decent size (10 Tb or above) Seagate BarraCuda pro. I heard that Seagate discontinued the Barracuda series and I don't think Seagate Ironwolf (NAS) or Exos (for Servers/data centers) will...

Hi Experts, I have an old 2TB HDD that I pulled out of an external case a long time ago. I recently hooked it up and I am stuck with the following: image of computer management I have a 233.88Gb RAW partition followed by 1630.14Gb Unallocated I am sure this is wrong - it would have been...

I recently bought a 'Lenovo ideapad gaming 3 15ach6 amd ryzen 7 5800h/16gb/512gb ssd/rtx 3050ti/15.6" '. For what I read/saw online, it was possible to add an HDD. Also the laptop came with an HDD tray and screws for it, so I assumed that was the case. When I opened the laptop here's what I...

So I want to store my videos, audio, applications, steam games backup (my PlayStation 1,2,3,4 games' ripped discs/blurays/folders/backups) and to install some older games, Application setups, Archive files Photoshop/premier/Cubase projects and unreal engine / blender / Daz Studio library and...

I had the OS SSD fail, and then a motherboard fail, so now I've got an all new set up but I need to get my archival RAID1 set back up. One of the 2 drives appears to have failed (it's showing only 4gb partition in Gnome disk utility), and I want to rescue what I can from the remaining drive...

I been looking for a large HDD, and maybe someone here can sound off on a good one. I keep seeing 22TB drives but keep reading that their only for NAS or cloud services and wouldnt be capable of storing media on them. So can anyone sound off if say like the Ironwolf or EXOS of seagate would be...

Well, I'm about to spend some money on a setup, but came across a major question. I found two HDDs. Both SATA. Very different storages. One 20 TB and the other 8TB. But what's intriguing are the specs. 4TB one says 3000 megabytes per sec 20TB says 285 megabytes per sec but they also include the...

Hello I have C: SSD with Windows 10 and D: HDD with the data like documents and so on, but also I use that D: for games installation folder. And for example, Steam and Epic etc. are installed on C: but games are put in D:. Now I want to completely get rid of that HDD and put SSD instead. How to...

Like the title says, through 3 separate people trying to do something I have now ended up in a situation where my original HDD won’t start up without my new SSD being connected and made its primary boot. The original plan was to clone my HDD to my new SSD to make it the boot device, and then...

Hi. I recently replaced my motherboard and my CPU and did a clean installation of windows, but I was getting BSODs constantly, so I ran a lot of tests. Problem is, after running memtest, I turned on my PC and got the the prompt "Select proper boot device or insert media device and restart". When...

I've recently purchased a WD Blue 2TB and a WD Blue 4TB. I am certain both arrived with a damaged head but I want to make sure before sending it back. They both make quiet but worrying noises when reading/writing to random places(but these could normal) but they both make loud screeching noises...

My PC is still running with an old Seagate drive (ST31000524AS) that I have been using since 2013 as the main storage drive. I have been monitoring the health of my drives using HDSentinel, particularly the old 1TB drive, and it has reached the point where its estimated remaining lifetime is now...

so my pc has been making a hissing sound lately and shutdowns randomly, i barely used it today because of the error. some people said that it was an HDD issue and that my HDD is dying but when i ran a health check on my PC using command prompt when it booted, it says that my HDD was fine, what...

I have my windows installed on my NVMe SSD and my HDD doesn't show up in Windows (disk management, device manager, etc) but does show in BIOS. To get my HDD to show in Windows I have to boot into BIOS and exit out and then my HDD shows in Windows (file explorer, etc). Normal boot up without...

Hi, recently I changed my PC case and PSU to new ones, I assembled everything and it worked fine and quiet, After a week my both new HDD and older HDD drives became significantly louder after turning on PC in the morning, they sound like fans or a vaccum or something. Since then these HDDs are...

I saved up and bought a WD80EAZZ (8TB, Western Digital blue) last month. I was an idiot and didn't have it properly secured in my case. Long story short: the plastic support brackets broke off the hard drive's SATA connector, the pins at least look alright: I've scoured and seen some similar...

When I connect my HDD to my PSU SATA cable, it doesn't turn on. The PSU is a cougar gx modular one, I've tried 3 different SATA cables (all of them are 8 pin - 5 for real - to 3 or 4 sata connectors in chain, none of the connectors work). I've tested the HDD with an external PSU (transformer...

Hello dear Forum visitors! I really need your help. I've been sitting without a PC for a month The computer sees the hard drives, but does not load them. Even at first I didn't install Windows on them. I decided to change the power supply, it seemed to be in it and buy an ssd. Here it is -...

Hey guys and gals. I recently did a new build using a few of my original components and was wondering if my HDD sounds healthy or not. The fans on the old build were very loud compared to my current ones so it could just be that the fans originally masked the noise of the HDD but I could be...