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Tag Archives: HDD
Is your SSD or HDD dirty?
You can of course use the Windows GUI to check your SSD or HDD. But did you know that you should check your drives by typing the following (you can copy and paste in a elevated command prompt and change … Continue reading
Winsat formal – measure your computer’s native performance
Want to truly measure your computer’s native performance? Use Winsat formal to see how the video, CPU and HDD/SSD performs. Open a elevated command prompt and type Winsat formal Want to measure just the disk? Type the following and substitute … Continue reading
Is your SSD or HDD dirty?
You can of course use the Windows GUI to check your SSD or HDD. But did you know that you should check your drives by typing the following (you can copy and paste in a elevated command prompt and change … Continue reading
Check and repair your SSD or HDD using PowerShell
Want to use PowerShell to scan or repair your drive(s)? Use the commands below to check your drives. Need to run a quick check? Type the following using PowerShell as the Administrator. Repair-Volume -DriveLetter C -SpotFix If you need to … Continue reading
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Tagged Hardware, HDD, PowerShell, SSD, SSD Optimization, troubleshooting
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Solid State Drive Speed Test – AnvilPro
If you want to test your SSD’s speed, a great program to try is AnvilPro. AnvilPro is just one of many ways you can test your SSD or HDD speed. AnvilPro Other SSD or HDD utilities
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Tagged HDD, HDD Utilities, SSD, SSD Utilities, Test HDD, Test SSD, Windows 10, windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8.1
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Partition your HDD to increase performance
When a good friend gave me a laptop, the quad core (Intel i3), 6 Gb Ram seemed slow. Thinking back to an old post, Resizing your HDD to increase performance, I decided to see what the difference in performance would … Continue reading
Hard Drive Reliability – Backblaze
At Backblaze we now have 34,881 drives and store over 100 petabytes of data. We continually track how our disk drives are doing, which ones are reliable, and which ones need to be replaced. More info
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Tagged backblaze, computer hardware, hard drive, hard drive reliability, HDD
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An expert’s review of solid state drives
Brandon and some of the other students including myself dream of having a solid state drive. Bill Mullins recently purchased a solid state drive and gives and excellent review of how solid state drives are truly the way to go. … Continue reading
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