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Hi!!! I own a Ps4 Pro (1TB), which I bought in November 2019. I now have no free-space to add new games. I purchase approximately 6-7 games each year. Should I buy a 2 TB hard-drive or a 4TB one (The difference in the price is about 20-30$)? ***I don’t want to buy a new hard drive for the next 3-4 years*** ***Seagate hard drive***

Hi. I'll be getting a NAS soon, just wondering what kind of drive should I get to back that NAS to. I'd like to do a periodic backup of my NAS to an external hard drive and I was wondering if that drive must be of "NAS" quality too or since it will be turned on twice a month could it be of standard quality? Thanks.

Good day everyone ! I really need help to resolve this frustrating problem that I'm having. Every few minutes or sometimes seconds CS:GO will freeze for a second. I went and took some screenshots of my Task Manager Performance tab as well as the resource monitor window. It seems to me that my HDD spikes to 100% every time this freeze happened. I looked online and found a lot of people having a similar issue but most of them had their RAM usage in the 90% and mine looks fine. I'm not an expert in this field so I hope to find someone that could understand these graphs a bit better and maybe assist me in fixing this problem. (I also found that this freezes happens in Path of Exile and Albion Online, and not in games like PUBG and Warzone - if this is any any way relevant information) I have attached screenshots of the spikes. Here is my Laptop Specifications: Model: Lenovo Legion Y540 CPU: Intel Core i5-9300H GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6GB GDDR6 Memory: 8GB DDR4 RAM Storage: 128GB SSD + 1TB Hard Drive This is my first time posting so I apologize if I have made some format errors. Thank you in advance

As the title indicates my PC has begun randomly freezing seemingly out of nowhere. For context I built this PC around a year or two ago and its worked perfectly fine until recently (specs are below). A couple months ago my hard drive (a Barracuda 2tb drive) began to make a clicking sound which to me indicated it was becoming old and needed to be replaced. After ordering a new replacement drive and sending the bad one back for repair (it was still under warranty) the new drive once installed displayed the same symptoms immediately and began clicking upon its first start up. I promptly returned the drive and ordered another only for the new one to display the exact same symptoms again. This happened 3 times now so I was beginning to think that its not the hard drive's fault but rather a different component that causes them to fail, I tried different SATA data and SATA power cables and they all displayed the same activity. I've seen online that the power supply might be the issue, I have a Corsair RM850x power supply 80+ gold but I have no way to test if it is faulty. Everything else seems to work fine, I downloaded a Seagate application that tests the health of your systems drives and the only test the different hard drives fail is the S.M.A.R.T. tests, all other tests come back positive. Further, when I play games off of my 500gb ADATA SSD my system never freezes, I often play Rainbow Six with friends and my PC never freezes or shuts down during use. MOBO post codes indicate that everything is OK and I haven't seen any odd behavior from any other component. Does any one know what could be causing the issue? PC Specs: - CPU: i9-9900k @ 4.9ghz - GPU: RTX 2070 ROG Strix OC - MOBO: Asus Maximus XI Hero (Wifi) - RAM: 16gb Corsair Vengeance RGB - Storage: - 250gb Samsung Evo (boot drive) - 500gb ADATA 2.5" SSD (extra storage) - 2tb Seagate Barracuda (Game storage only) - PSU: 850W Corsair RM850x 80+ gold

I have a Dell Vostro 15 3578, bought it brand new 2 years ago. After a month it had a fan issue on bios, rebooted it a few times and it started working normally. 5 months later after a windows update started experiencing disk being maxed out according to task manager and multimedia files skipping or pausing. Didn't know it was a sign of hard drive failure until my hard drive failed. Bought a new hard drive, which worked for a week, then started having issues a month later, before finally turning out worse than my inbuilt system hard drive. Should I still get a new drive and chuck the last one up to factory error. Apologies if there is insufficient information... this is my first time posting.

I am building a new computer with a 2TB M.2 for my OS System, 4x 4TB WD Black Performance HDD's. My question is; am I going to loose performance putting the 4x 4TB WD HHD's in Raid 0? Or should I try a different Raid Type? The reason I am doing this is to have 16tb of space for games, nothing else. I get there are other alternatives like, buying a 16TB HHD however, this is what I have to work with. Computer Specs: MSI MEG Z590 ACE G.SKILL TridentZ (4 x 8GB) 32gb Ram MSI GeForce RTX 3090 Gaming X Trio Intel i9-10900K 10th Gen Samsung 970 Evo Plus 2TB M.2 WD Black 4x 4TB HHD Corsair RMx Series RM1000X Thanks for all the information! It's nice that I can come here and ask a question with no issues!

I have an aging computer I've been keeping alive. It has an 8 core FX series processor, and I know that's a processor with polarizing opinions. It has a GTX 1060 6gb and 16gb RAM. It is connected to my television for gaming and watching videos. It does a fine job at all of this. I'm playing through the Tomb Raider reboot series and it hasn't struggled at all and I'm on Shadow of the Tomb Raider now running at High. Anyway, I planned to build a new Ryzen computer basically as soon as all the scalping hit. So, instead I thought I'd just ride this year out with this computer a little longer. It's still performing well even doing VR with my Oculus Rift. The dilemma is that I was being cheap when I built it and it boots off a 120gb SSD. There is a 2tb SATA drive for bulk storage... but that tiny main SSD is always out of space. I thought about upgrading the SSD to something larger because that's a cheap way to solve the problem... but then I got wondering... is there any performance benefit from buying a PCIe NVMe card and then putting in an NVMe as my main hard drive? Or should I just get a regular SSD and be done with it?

Hi, I've bought a 3.5" 8TB HDD and realized I can't mount it on the cage that came with my new ATX case. I'm not knowledgeable with cages/mounting brackets and wished to verify with someone more experienced. I'm thinking that I need to buy these mounting brackets, but I'm not sure if they'll holding correctly. I'm also thinking that I might only need these plastic brackets without the cage, but I'm not sure what's the right terminology to search for them specifically. I've took some pictures bellow of my cage, it's 4.5" wide. Also, I had a MicroATX before and just shove the old cage with 2 HDD in the new cage sideways. I couldn't mount it otherwise and I guess it kind of work for now, but I'd hope to buy a couple of more brackets to mount them correctly. Let me know what I should buy to mount HDD, thanks!

I am trying to decide between a SSD or SAS Drive for a project. Intel 2.5" SATA 6G 400GB SSD DC S3700 Series (total 420k IOPS) (120$ USD) or Seagate Cheetah 15K.7 ST3600057SS 600GB 15000 RPM 16MB Cache SAS 6Gb/s 3.5" Internal Enterprise Hard Drive (cant find info) ( 60$ USD ) Its hard to find information on the SAS Drives as there is so many companies. I plan to put them in multiple raid 0 to use writes and plan to write about 500TB of data in the next 2 months. I am building a server on an X99 motherboard with a e5- 2699 intel CPU Any suggestions?

I have a noob question regarding my NAS. I pulled an old computer out of my local transfer station that had three 1.5 TB WD Greens in it, so I decided to set up this computer with TrueNAS and use it as a NAS. In a shocker to absolutely nobody one of the old 1.5TB WD greens has begun to fail after being used for only a few months. As I was aware that using older hard drives not designed for this use case which I literally found amongst the trash were likely to do this I set up all three drives in a raid 5 so I can lose a drive and not have to worry too much. As this drive is failing I want to preemptively purchase another one and install it in its place but I cannot find any new hard drives that are 1.5 TB. Could I purchase a 2 TB hard drive and just throw it in and then rebuild the array or will that cause a problem because it's a higher capacity than the drive it's replacing? I would assume this is not a problem but I want to double check before I do anything and potentially screw something up.

Hey guys so I have an issue I have been unable to find any solution for: I went from a computer that worked perfectly, to then letting it sit for 2 days, and then when I came back, it began really falling apart. It will blue screen for a number of reasons, and give me differing area codes. For instance, I got (just yesterday while troubleshooting) a PFN_List_Corrupt, Memory Management, and two KERNAL_TRAP error codes. After trying to run CHKDSK, and it still failling, I decided to just remove the SATA drive it is on. This decision to just remove the drive, since there's nothing super important on it, came after trying to work through the boot cycle for about 2 hours. I then downloaded another windows file onto a flash drive, and then downloaded it into my NVME drive; however even after switching between EUFI and Legacy UEFI, it made no difference. I am still unable to select to boot of of my NVME despite the SSD being removed. Here is my build: CPU: i7-8700k Ram: 16 Gb Corsair Vengeance LPX 3600 mhz GPU: 1070Ti Motherboard MSI z370 I assume theres no need for the PSU and Case, etc.

So, there are three hard drive on my PC the first one is my SSD as my boot device and the other two of them are 1tb and 500gb WD blue hard disk. If I only plug the SSD it worked, it POST and I can get into the bios. But if I plugged the other 2 hard drive it just running but no display. On my PSU there are two sata cable lines, if I use the second sata cable the PC doesn’t POST at all. But if I use the first sata cable it work, it can POST. Basically, if I plug my hard drive into the other sata line it won't work but if I use one sata line it works. Please take a look the picture I made so you can understand what I mean. PSU : Aerocool Lux 550w

I have an old alienware desktop with an HDD. I want to transfer ALL the files to the M.2 SSD on my new pc. Only problem is, I can't take the HDD out of the alienware pc (or rather, won't as I can not stand trying to work and troubleshoot it if something goes wrong) or add the M.2 drive to it as it has no 2280 slot. Anyone have any advice?

Most of the details are in the reddit thread lol. This is the quietist these specific noises have been (right when i actually capture it go figure). I think any fault may have been caused by the courier dropping it over my fence, warranty isn't going to cover it. I have 8 days to return. Happens seemingly randomly and on boot (so I'm guessing when waking from idle). Performance wise it's running, passing tests from seatools and seemingly working, FOR NOW. I was getting an issue when I had shadowplay running (particularly the saving the last x minutes option), drive would make an awful noise and my game would momentarily crash.. (even with the game itself running off a separate m.2 ssd) Honestly I feel like I know what any response is going to be... but returning would waste 6tb worth of downloading, possibly p*** off amazon because I have had to return ALOT to them this last year or so, it's all the way from usa (UK here), and drives are apparently the next gpu.... so please tell me it's fine :').. even though it is a £250 HDD and i want it working respectively. TY.

I have a 5 year old HP Pavilion Power that has started to run slow and boot times are not what they used to be and when I look at what is using a lot of it is the disk usage its at 100% almost all the time even when its just idling at run. I tried a few things online to do and the last thing it said it might be is that the hard drive may have finally started to give up and was wondering if that might be something I have to fix.

Hello. I recently bought a 8tb HDD. The drive works fine, but sometimes you can hear a strange noise when the disk is working. VIDEO: https://imgur.com/a/goEtJ7m (You need to turn up the volume) In the video you can hear one around the 12 sec and another one in the 2 sec. Should I return the drive?

So i've been running windows on my singular hard drive for the past three years now and i think its time to make the switch to an ssd.I picked this 250gb ssd from samsung.But i really dont wanna reinstall windows and everything so I searched the internet and found out that there is a way to migrate the OS to another drive by cloning it by using EaseUS Todo Backup.I only have one question which is my drive is split into 2 partitions C and D and my C drive contains the OS while my D drive contains Everything else,so the question is can i just clone the c drive and migrate it to the ssd without touching the D drive or would the D drive also be affected by the migration since its acutally just 1 hard drive

So I just put together a new computer. I am using an Asus X570 e motherboard and everything is working great. Except that I plugged in my 2 TB HDD (sea gate) that I was using from my previous computer and the it doesn’t show up in disk management or in bios. now I’m not an expert with computers but I know a pretty good bit and I’ve looked at every forum or video regarding the subject and nothing has worked so far. it is a sata hard drive it worked perfectly fine 2 minutes before I moved it to the new computer. I will say I have tried switching out data cables, power connectors, and even using my ssd from the other computer and nothing is showing in bios. I even re connected them back in the old computer and they each work just fine. please someone help! I’m super lost and don’t know what to do at this point. thanks!

I have a collection of old hard drives with either bad sectors or have other problems making them unusable. They are all recognised still so the boards on the drives work, I have seen in the past listings on ebay selling boards taken off hard drives and wonder if this is viable and useful to do, while recycling the rest of the components. Or should I just recycle the whole drives including the boards? Are the working boards even useful for someone with an otherwise working drive but there board is faulty, can they even be interchanged if they are the same model? I vaguely remember an old linus video that visisted a data recovery place that could possibly benefit from these fixing drives, but I might be mis remembering. In short, I'm clearing out clutter and wondering what to do with them that would be the most environmentally friendly approach. Especially as boards aren't the easiest to recycle.

I have an old hard drive (10+ years) that is showing its age and it contains important data. I am planning to transfer the files to a new hard drive to back it up, but at the same time I wish to slow down the transfer speeds as not to put too much stress on the old hard drive. Is there any software that I can use to artificially limit the transfer speed on windows 10? If so, what transfer speeds would be a safe option (I have the entire weekend to transfer 500 GB)?

Can I leave my external hard drive plugged in or will it cause problems? If I turn my pc off while it's plugged in wouldn't it cause issues or failure? It's like I'm not unplugging it safely with software.

Hi. So I've been trying to recover some data off of this external USB hard drive. It’s a SONY 1TB External USB hard drive, (specs here) I would have taken this to a professional data recovery service, but the data on this HDD is more of a 'nice to have again' kind of data than something very important. So, what happened is that this HDD was plugged into an old laptop for a while, and the laptop turned out to have a lot of malware on it. (I found this later on when I was told to speed that laptop up; I ended up doing a fresh Windows install on it). When the drive was plugged into that laptop, the files could be accessed normally, but when it was taken out and plugged into another computer, it didn’t show up in file explorer anymore. I opened up disk management and it showed up as unallocated space, and prompted me to initialize the disk before it could be used. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/7031/PL55Ue.png But when it tried to initialize it in either MBR or GPT, a window opened saying 'incorrect function'. Here is what it showed: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/2863/ZMjnYl.png I have recovered files from other drives before, and I thought it might be a corrupted MBR. The next thing I did was to open up EaseUS data recovery wizard (as I have used this before), and scan the drive. The problem is that the scan is stuck at 0% for about 14 hours, and the estimated time shows up as 2:38:00, but every 10 minutes or so, it resets and shows as 2:38:00 again, never counting down from there. I know that scanning hard drives, especially big ones for data recovery takes a long time, but it is stuck at 0%, and the timer keeps resetting. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img922/9629/PTYtNR.png I have verified that the EaseUS installation works by scanning a USB stick and all the deleted files show up after the scan. I even made a bootable EaseUS media with their free tool, and booting off of that and trying to scan the drive, but the same thing happens. Next, I tried to rebuild the MBR using AOMEI partition assistant, and it finished rebuilding the MBR, but still I couldn’t initialize the disk in disk management, or scan it with EaseUS. I tried converting the disk to GPT, but AOMEI partition assistant couldn’t do it, showing this error. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/7098/p0XfLD.png Also, AOMEI partition wizard freezes randomly just after opening when the drive is plugged in, but works normally when it’s not plugged in. So then I opened up the USB enclosure, and plugged the Seagate 3.5 inch drive inside directly into my PC to make sure that it wasn’t the USB controller on the enclosure that was the problem, and surely enough, it wasn’t. The same things happen, although disk management shows up a different prompt when trying to initialize it., ( showing up the error ‘data error: cyclic redundancy check’) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/1561/h57NzD.png And also, I plugged in a working 3.5inch hard drive to the enclosure, and it showed up as it should, so the USB controller isn’t causing the problem. When the drive is plugged into a SATA port in my PC, and I try to rebuild the MBR using AOMEI partition assistant it still finished rebuilding it, but when I try to initialize the disk, it fails, and shows this error: https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/9051/CsKKos.png At this point, I have tried everything that I know of. I could just let EaseUS run and see what happens, but I doubt that will come up with any results as the timer keeps resetting. Also, the drive doesn't show any SMART status at all. Both CrystalDIskinfo and HWinfo don't show anything. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/3166/v1CKh0.png Is there anything else I should try to do? Any help at all is appreciated

I'm planning to get a new hard drive to replace my 160GB WD Blue. Should I get a Seagate Barracuda or WD Blue? Both are 1TB in size. Western Digital https://www.amazon.com/WD-Blue-1TB-Hard-Drive/dp/B0088PUEPK/ref=sr_1_1?crid=382KTUT9IQQNX&dchild=1&keywords=western+digital+blue&qid=1613735205&sprefix=western+digital+b%2Caps%2C412&sr=8-1 Seagate https://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-barracuda-1tb-internal-sata-hard-drive-for-desktops/6164930.p?skuId=6164930

I have 4 drives in my PC, 1 SSD (C drive) which consists of Windows, my browser, and all my important stuff. The hard drives (D, E, and F drives) are only mass storage, photos, videos, movies, etc. Usually when using my PC, i have around 20 chrome tabs open, Spotify, and a few other things. This will be important later on. When first starting my PC, everything works flawlessly. But after leaving it on for about 2 days everything gets sluggish. When trying view a chrome tab I haven't viewed in a few hours, my PC slows down dramatically, the chrome tab takes a while to load and my D drive ramps up to 100%. If opening spotify after not using it for a few hours, again my PC slows down dramatically, spotify takes a while to load and my D drive ramps up to 100%. This usually doesn't happen with an application or chrome tab that I interacted with recently, only ones that have been left open for 6+ hours with no interaction. So for troubleshooting I unplugged just the D drive. than after 2 days, the same thing happens except now with my E drive. I then unplugged all my hard drives and only had my SSD plugged in. Everything worked flawlessly for the week I used it without any of my hard drives. When I open something that has been left open for 6+ hours, the SSD ramps up to 30-40%, but the PC doesn't slow down and the tab/application load instantly. After I plugged in the 3 hard drives, again after 2 days the problem continues except now instead of the D drive, it's the E drive. The PC was working perfectly just a few months ago. If anyone knows how to fix this, your help would be appreciated. If any questions, please ask.

Hi, the weekend i filmed 2 music video clips. the first one i filmed, i transferred the files from my SSD to the hard drive because i film on the ssd. When i got back home, the files i transferred on to the hard drive i wanted to back it up, but i got in an issue were i can't get most of the files off the hard drive. The hard drive is exFat, i don't know why i formatted it to exFat but its exFat. I am able to see the thumbnails and play the videos when i try to get the files off the hardrive 1: its tranfers at really slow speeds (see attached picture) 2: after a while it stops and give me that MS-DOS error (see attached picture) I have tried to optimize the hard drive, doesn't help. checked for error, windows says that there is error i have added the "copyfilebufferedsynchonousIO" i tried using resolve clone tool, but it stops after a while all have let me to nowhere, so does anyone knows what i can do to get all the files off the drive? now i'm transfering 1 by 1 to see which files i can get off the drive.