HGST

Hi, planning to buy a new cheap HDD, I came across a Hitachi HGST Ultrastar 7K4000 (model: HUS724040ALE641) - with a label October 2019. Asking the seller he said "it is new, produced in 2019", but I have my doubts as production possibly stopped couple years back. There is a sticker with a date...

I bought 4x Western Digital Gold 4 TB (WD4002FYYZ) drives, a couple years ago, and they're awful. They sat around, and I now finally got around to using them. They're really hot, and one already failed after 2 days of use. The recoverable error counts on 3 of them are also quite high, and the...

How do you tell the difference between the mentioned HDDs? They seem identical and I can't find much information about them either

I have a 5TB HGST Deskstar NAS 5TB 7200 RPM in my PC and it's been running for 3 years. It has always made clicking noises when in use even when I bought it but has been running fine almost 24/7 for 3 years. Recently I noticed it has been getting very hot, 50C+ easily without doing much. It...

Good part of day you're in the middle of dear Tom's Hardware forum member or a reader passing by :p, I've just run into a weird situation... not sure if I should call it an "issue", still. I hooked up my daily driver external HDD which hasn't given me trouble since Feb 2014 (knock on wood) to a...

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Context: I just installed a brand new Windows 10 OS onto my Sandisk 500 gb SSD in order to increase boot time on my PC (my old OS is on my 2 tb HDD). All seems to be going swimmingly (if having to sign back into downloaded programs is considered normal for this procedure) but I can't figure out...

I have an ASRock x370 Killer Sli/ac motherboard that had power cut during a bios update that ended up with the board being bricked. All the components turn on still with lights and fans spinning but the display no longer shows any splash screens of any kind. Is there any fixes for this board or...

CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K Desktop Processor 6 Cores CPU Cooler: Noctua - NH-D15S 82.5 CFM CPU Cooler Motherboard: ASRock - Z370 Killer SLI/ac ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4-3000 Memory Storage: Samsung - 860 Evo 500GB 2.5" Solid State Drive...

I can not reset laptop

Hey yall, I had a stable overclock running for about a year or so, but had to reset the CMOS because I pigheadedly disabled USB 2.0 for the UEFI. I recreated the settings as best I could, but after testing it with Final Fantasy 15, I got a BSOD with "k_mode_exception" or some such. That, I...

I currently have 16 GB of ram installed in my system but I have 2 slots available to add more. Would I see any real performance gain from adding more ram? Thanks. Current Specs: Asus Z97-A motherboard i7 4790K 16 GB DDR3 Crucial Ballistix ram Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080 EVGA SuperNOVA 650w power supply

hey guys so I have a gtx 660ti and an old Geforce 7300LE what I am asking is can I flash the Geforce 7300LE with a modified Bios so that it can use a newer driver because the driver it can use is maximum 305 with the latest one being 398 and I would like to run both gpu's seperatly which works...

I want a laptop, it's been a year since I got this build. i5-6500 gigabyte 1060 6gb 16 gb vengeance ram 1tb wd blue 500 gb wd blue 550 psu Corsair carbide spec-01 Gigabyte gaming g3 motherboard DVD drive Acer 21.5 inch monitor 1080p

I need an AM4 board which is a mini or micro ATX board and with the new bios installed anyone know ?

Everytime I reboot my computer the keyboard layout changes from qwerty to qwertz. I have removed all additional keyboard layouts and can find no other settings to adjust. Even after removing the additional layouts the computer still boots to qwertz and I have to push windows + space to change...

Hi, i oc my ram to 1866mhz but when i run the benchmark in userbenchmark they show me that my ram run at @ 933 Mhz. I know that its double data but in this benchmark (http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/7156155) that guy run the same ram at @ 1867 MHz so, how its this possible? Am i doing...

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Imma order 2 boss phantom 12's. Each rated at 2300 watts and i have no clue on what size amp I need to use to get the full kick out of the subs.

Windows 8.1 AMD A6-3670 APU with Radeon HD Graphics 2.70 GHz / AMD Radeon R7 200 Series RAM 4.00 GB Whenever I run WoW or another intense game, my tower gets loud and the computer screen goes black, computer sounds like it's still running and I have to restart it to turn it back on. Temp2 gets...

Like so many others that enjoy a nice virtual desktop or two, I am completely frustrated with the Win10 version. The constant snap back to the originally opened MS program is just completely defeating and so irritating that I often don't even use the multiple desktops... I used VirtaWin back...

I'm currently using a i5 6600k 4.5ghz and a 1080ti with 16gb ddr4. I'm about to upgrade to a 8600k for vr. I currently own an htc vive. Is it worth the extra money for a 8700k over the 8600k? If so, why? As for regular non-vr gaming, I game in 4k 60hz so a cpu upgrade isn't needed for that...

Hi all i just bought a new monitor it arrives at the weekend i have been waiting a while to get this thing i was going to hold off and get a new rig and monitor at same time but i think ill just run my current setup to next year and just wonder how it will perform at 1440p resolution. System...

CPU: i7 4770k Motherboard: MSI Z97 G45 Gaming Ram: 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws X 1866 SSD/HDD: 250GB + 1TB HDD GPU: MSI GTX 1070 TI Gaming PSU: Corsair CX750 Chassis: NEXT Phantom 530 Full ATX Monitor+resolution: Asus VG248QE (1080p 144Hz) Will my 8GB of RAM bottleneck my pc in modern games (Battlefield...

Hi I've posted my pc since i've had these weird stuttering issues. Is a 500W PSU enough for the setup? If so which power supply i should invest in. Thanks in advance https://pcpartpicker.com/list/Ln62vV

I recently Built my pc with a Ryzen 5 1600x I overclocked it to 3850mhz on 1.27v i have been reading that most people running the same OC have been using 1.35v on overage is this unsafe? I have run prime 95 on the computer for around 20 minutes and my cpu was staying at about 65C I know you...

My computer boots Windows 7 but I don't remember my password.

Hi guys, Because of CPU lane counts. Will the graphic card unit performance effected running at x8 PCI-E done by some lacking CPU lane? example running a 7700k which is 16 pcie lane CPU and running a GPU in x8 PCI-E and 2pcs of NVME M.2 SSD which eats x4+x4 PCI-E lane?

[Please Read] I have this problem where upon startup after the pc has been on for 5 seconds the screen flashes a random color I have updated all my drivers and windows 10 I also have a problem where somtimes when im doing nothing the screen just freezes then turns off when that happens somtimes...

I am building a new pc and my pc is booting perfectly fine without my graphics card but when it is in the computer dose not go to the motherboards booting screen. All fans are running and all LEDs are on. The graphics card does not need power from the power supply and when I have the graphics...

I have 2 local accounts and when i start the computer it logs on on the last user that shut down the computer. In previous versions if i remember correctly, the list of users was there at the beginning, I googled around but cant find a solution for my case. I`m not using a password on either...

Will appreciate any suggestions for laptops $550(max) and under. Uses are purely for business and watching Youtube vids. No gaming. Will prefer an i5 CPU at least.

So I know its easy to cast video from a laptop on wifi to an android box connected to a tv, but what about if I want to access a video file on my desktop pc which isn't on any wifi, just wired directly to that modem? How do I get my android box to access/play video files on my PC?

Since about two months I own a new processor/mobo/ram and am getting small lagspikes every couple of seconds in games like gta 5, battlefield 1 and watch dogs 2. These spikes appear after about ~15 minutes of gameplay. On my previous setup all these games ran fine. Current setup: ryzen 5...

Hello Everyone, I'm going for a second build with the following components CPU; 6700k or I7700K (leaning to 6700k due music production) Motherboard; Gigabyte GA-Z270X-UD5 I want 32gb of memory so I've found G skill F4-3000C14D-32GVK Do you guys think this memory is the best value for in...

Hello, I am back again looking for help on some PC upgrades. I am mostly trying to make sure my computer is ready with the new release of Destiny 2 and Battlefront 2. I currently can play PUBG on ultra with 30-60 frames. I was thinking of maybe upgrading to a i7-4790k Quad Core. Any other...

Hello I recently upgraded to the ryzen 7 1700 and with the motherboard asus crosshair vi. After windows launches, I cannot access my mouse and keyboard. I've checked other solutions online and nothing else has worked for me (such as connecting them to usb 2.0 ports, my mobo has no ps2 for...

So I've had my 6700k for a while now and haven't overclocked properly yet as I want to get a better cooler first, and I figured the default 4ghz base and 4.2ghz turbo would be enough. Now I don't know that much about Intel turbo boost and I always figured mine was working fine as it said just...

Hey guys I used PSX Download Helper for transfering of playstation games Data. For this, I connect PS4 to my laptop via Lan cable (both of them are lan 10/100/1000) In windows, I share my laptop wifi connection with local area connection, and set the PSX software IP for proxy of PS4...

Hi all, Looking to upgrade SSDs as the one with my operating system is quite full. I currently have: 1) Intel 520 Series 120GB SATA3 Solid-state Drive - Running my operating system and a few other programs 2) WD 3.5" Blue 1TB WD10EZEX SATA3 64M 7200rpm HDD 3) Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H ATX...