mechanical drive

So I tried to push my power cord into the wall outlet and saw electrical sparks. Then the cord came out and I put it back in but sparks came out again so I quickly took it out, but the power switch wasn't turned off. After switching to another wall outlet, this time with my switch off, I turned...

Hey! So I have this external 2.5" HDD that was previously the main disk from my laptop. It's external now as I bought it an enclosure. I was using this disk for school projects and media and always plugging it and unplugging it and laying it down correctly so that the platters and the heads...

Hello. My Hard Disc is making weird noises. It's all started after I installed a fan, and wiggled the cable a little bit. Any one know what's wrong with it?

For the past few months I've always felt like my SSD is very slow. Slower than normal mechanical hard drive. I searched it up and a lot of the solutions was to make sure TRIM is on and having more than 15% left on the drive, which I've tried. I have a 120 GB Kingston A400 SSD and I've used up...

Greetings to all! Context: My previous PC had an FX-6300 and a mechanical WD Blue 500GB 7,200 RPM HD. I've built a new computer on the Ryzen platform: 2600 @ 4Ghz on 1.337v, with entirely different hardware, including a Crucial MX500 2.5" SSD. Using the "Acronis software" provided with the...

Hi I've just bought a system from Chillblast - I opted for Standard psu because a) I didn't really know any better and b) I've just realised I have a 650w psu (under 2 years old) in my current (dying) 8 year old quadcore2 6600 PC Mainly I just wanted something way quicker and less prone to...