Hard Disk Drives (HDD)

Discuss popular hard drive brands including Western Digital, Seagate, HGST and Samsung.

23703 topics in this forum

  1. My WD desktop hard drive dropped. Not detecting in computer

    By mahenthiran,
    • 22 replies
    • 3606 views

  2. Data integrity problems with external usb drives!

    By uart,   
    • 5 replies
    • 3777 views

  3. Reliability of helium based hard drives?

    By CrazyElf,   
    • 3 replies
    • 5166 views

  4. Slow Write Speed on a Seagate STDT8000100

    By NeilN,
    • 5 replies
    • 3044 views

  5. Windows 10 Doesn't Support for AF 512e?

    By jwells,
    • 0 replies
    • 2439 views

  6. Need help with renamed files and folder structure after recovery

    By Slystash,   
    • 1 reply
    • 2511 views

  7. Western Digital removes warranty of RMA drives

    By urbanriot,
    • 8 replies
    • 12366 views

  8. 1TB Seagate Barracuda strange noise at boot, after OK

    By cincinnatus,
    • 1 reply
    • 2365 views

  9. Seagate SAS drive SMART fail, Fails long DST, fixall then Passes long DST and PM question

    By cbrworm,
    • 1 reply
    • 2390 views

  10. HDD for Time Machine Backups

    By flyman,   
    • 2 replies
    • 2540 views

  11. Seagate 10TB Enterprise Capacity 3.5 HDD (Helium)

    By danyadd,   
    • 4 replies
    • 9496 views

  12. Do I really need HGST GPT Disk Manager to access 3TB Drive?

    By mtl777,
    • 1 reply
    • 2877 views

  13. Presario 2816ea/HD options

    By WDLL,
    • 3 replies
    • 2782 views

  14. Seagate BackUp Plus External Drive

    By javabiker,   
    • 3 replies
    • 3275 views

  15. wd gold datacenter hdd - 2 of new 12 wont work??? wtf?!

    By foler,   
    • 7 replies
    • 3321 views

  16. Tests to detect SMR dives?

    By xerces8,
    • 5 replies
    • 6146 views

  17. WDC Red Pro 8TB Too Quiet

    By jwells,
    • 8 replies
    • 4901 views

  18. Any problems with using a Nas drive as stand alone - not in a Nas/RAID

    By Ignacio49,
    • 2 replies
    • 3440 views

  19. Vintage - MFM data connector on ST-251-1 plugged in backwards - dead?

    By kbs1,   
    • 7 replies
    • 5686 views

  20. Which test shouldi run on a new portable drive to discard any physical

    By userwords,
    • 3 replies
    • 1520 views

  21. Need Advice for Toshiba (hitachi) HDD

    By slyphnier,   
    • 2 replies
    • 1746 views

  22. How are Sshd different from regular Hdd when they have a solid state c

    By userwords,
    • 4 replies
    • 2031 views

  23. Specific machine - multiple drive failures. Suggestions?

    By cbrworm,
    • 2 replies
    • 1447 views

  24. HGST 6TB and Intel's RST failing with no reason?

    By TalPCP,   
    • 0 replies
    • 1297 views

  25. New WD40EFRX clicking sound every 2 seconds

    By apostolis21,
    • 8 replies
    • 2279 views