HDDs

I'm looking to buy a pair of 12TB SATA hard drives, one to use inside my Dell Precision 3620 tower desktop PC, and the other to place in an external Inateck USB 3.0 enclosure as a backup for the first drive. I use FreeFileSync to backup files from one drive to another. The internal drive would...

1) Does any software test show whether the HDD is new or used and whether the firmware/bios has been changed by someone? 2) What software test on HDD is good to identify whether it is in good condition?

hello i i have lot of folders and many duplicate folders on few hard drives, i wanted to know is there any progream that can scan all hard drives at once and show me folders that have the *exact* same content inside? i want them to be marked or something so i can delete some duplicates folders...

Hi All, I recently asked a storage question on the forums related to one of my 4 HDDs (in a RAID 5 array) having some uncorrectable sectors after power loss, and subsequently, needing to replace it. I will more than likely be taking the opportunity to upgrade the storage capacity of the array...

Hi All, I am running Windows Server 2019 Standard on my HP Z640 Workstation, and this morning I noticed that my machine had crashed/rebooted. Looking at the logs, it seems that it was a critical kernel-power error, so it must have been a temporary power outage or issue. per usual in these...

Hi guys, I already have 2 HDDs in my PC, both of them Western Digital Blue 1TB 7200 RPM. Due to needs of more storage space, i decided to get myself Western Digital Blue 4TB HDD, will be used for gaming only. But there's speed differences between both types of HDDs (7200 RPM vs 5400 RPM). I...

I am planning on getting 2 internal 2.5" HDDs (1TB to 2TB) for backup, and put them into a Raid Enclosure to set them up as RAID 1. planning on getting this one...

I'm looking into setting up a LAN and server for the small business I work for. Does anyone have advice on equipment, setup or just a good book or source of info to start learning from? Here are the details: -There's a good source of budget and no defined limit. The idea is to get it working...

My hard drive suddenly drive on me. I tried using linux live to troubleshoot things and luckily my hard drive can still be detected "ST500LT012-1DG142" But the problem is, I couldn't open it. I tried doing fdisk -l and it doesn't show me anything which makes me worried, even though my...

It's that time again! Time to update the Tom's Hardware BestConfigs! Once again, we are opening the field to user recommendations to get the best consensus for the absolute best of the best in each category. Post the best configuration you can put together for the following build category and...

Hey guys, I have an Emachine El1352 slimline PC. I'm not interested in buying a new PC to play League and I just want to upgrade the graphics card so I can play the game, even if it's at low settings. Anything is better than the onboard graphics that I currently have... but my question is, which...

Hi im building a gaming rig and i would like to ask whether the 50-60$ difference between the r9 270 and gtx 760 notable in performance. Ive seen "r9 270x vs r9 270" here and it says that the difference between the r9 270x and r9 270 is not that much so its a waste spending 40 more dollars for...