Questions tagged [Hard disks] (1131)

Good afternoon. Recently began to notice that the server from time to time started to slow down that is a month I once or twice rebooted. I suspect that this is hard drives. Check them out on the SMART test failed that is there all the drives connected in RAID 1. Please tell me how can I verify the status of the hard drives...

In General, formatted one of the partitions of one hard drive and wanted to combine it with other, already-existing partition of the same disk, but not disk management or Acronis are not allowed to do. Disk management says: For the selected GPT formatted disk between the sections of the PARTITION_BASIC_DATA_GUID is a sectio...

Good day! Required to pull data from the HDD of the mac mini. Disassembled the mac using the adapter I tried to connect it to the laptop instead of the CD-ROM is not read. May need a special mac adapter?

Good day, tell me if everything will be OK in terms of efficiency, if I do a full clone of the C drive partition to a new SDD. Section size 269 gigs, free gig 62. SDD volume of 512 GB. Don't really want to put new Windows as the HDD is almost new (set 1 month ago). What program can advise normal and high quality cloning tha...

How popular and effective hardware RAID controllers from Adaptec? Found here for such a cheap device. Either look in the direction of LSI and Intel that cost 30k minimum ?

In the presence of two SAS-screws which had previously connected via a hardware RAID controller. How to create of these screws software RAID, if mother only SATA sockets? It turns out that SAS-screws will not work 100% ? There is also a SAS-basket, which was previously connected to hardware RAID controller. In the basket yo...

There was a need to switch from hardware RAID to software. In a hardware RAID configuration, standard hardware RAID controller, SAS-basket (PCB) that connects to the RAID controller, and SATA drives. Question — when you create a software RAID whether the SAS basket, or just need to clean up (remove a charge)? Or they should...

Already half a year as my PC is quite slow. I didn't notice it until it started to annoy. One day I went into the task Manager to remove the task interest me, and saw that my disk is 100% loaded, and is connected with the fact that I open or do anything. Digging in task Manager I saw "the average response time of disk" and ...

The need arose to create a software RAID 1 for the server. What manufacturer HDD the most popular server in terms of fault tolerance and performance? And another question — what is better, software or hardware RAID?

Has 8 GB of RAM. Windows 10 on the SSD 2 hard drives - SSD 120 GB and HDD to a 1000 Disappeared 2 GB of RAM (hardware reserved 2.1) When intensive work is heavily loaded disk, where the swap file (it is not on the system drive and backup *(HDD)) By the way I have it disabled, because with 8GB it is not required really, but ...