If you have ever bought a used hard drive or pulled a hard drive from a NAS unit or other machine, it may have an incompatible file system installed on it, or just has a bunch of data you don’t care to have on it anymore. From within Windows you can easily wipe all the […]
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July 1, 2023 I am posting this here but you can also view video showing the results (YouTube Video of SMR Test Results), or on my Reddit post here: REDDIT POST TO SMR RESULTS. There is basically the same content whether in this blog, the reddit post, or video, except I go into more detail
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Intro January 10, 2023 For the most part when it comes to technology you get what you pay for. But that doesn’t stop many from trying to find a great bargain. SSD prices have been dropping pretty aggressively over the last year. 2TB drives can frequently be found for under $100, but how good are
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October 3, 2022 Hard Drives offer great inexpensive storage with lots of capacity. While they don’t hold a candle to SSD’s when it comes to performance, you can’t beat the $/TB storage capacity of a hard drive, especially when it comes to 2TB or larger. That being said, most consumer level hard drives utilize a
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