Anything I download to my D: drive—whether it's a game, video, or another type of file—eventually fails with errors such as "corrupted files" or "disk write error." I…
Every file I download to my D: drive—whether it's a game, video, or something else—ends up failing with errors such as "corrupted files" or "disk write error." I…
I use a 1 TB KIOXIA-EXCERIA G2 as the boot drive in my daily-use PC. It is rated for 400 TBW and has about 14,000 hours of use.…
I use a 1 TB KIOXIA-EXCERIA G2 as the boot drive in my daily-use PC. It is rated for 400 TBW, has about 14,000 hours of power-on time,…
I bought a Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA SSD in January last year for installing games, since my C: drive was running out of space and these…
I bought an SSD that was advertised as new, but CrystalDiskInfo reports a bad health condition. It shows two critical warnings: available spare capacity has fallen below the…
I bought an SSD that was advertised as "new," but CrystalDiskInfo reports a bad health status. It shows two critical warnings: "Available spare capacity has fallen below the…
I recently bought a gaming laptop and needed extra storage, so I connected an older 1TB USB drive. It has started behaving strangely: files refuse to delete, formatting…
I bought a Crucial BX500 240GB 3D NAND SATA SSD last January for games that take up a lot of storage space. When it was new, downloads ran…
I recently bought a gaming laptop and needed extra storage, so I connected an older 1TB USB drive that had worked reliably in the past. Now files refuse…
The official CrystalDiskInfo installer now includes optional advertising, which made me uncomfortable enough to avoid downloading it and reinstall Windows after encountering it. I know the portable ZIP…
I've been using a 512GB Intel 660p SSD as my Windows boot drive and for game storage since 2019. Its rated endurance is 100 TB written, and monitoring…
I'm considering buying a used 4TB Seagate BarraCuda for $50, but CrystalDiskInfo reports a Caution status because of reallocated sectors. Is that serious enough to avoid the drive,…
I was given a WD Blue hard drive from an old desktop that apparently had not been powered on for more than seven years. It still works and…
For the past day, Windows has repeatedly shown a message saying that the Recycle Bin on my E: drive is corrupted and asking whether I want to empty…
I received a Western Digital Blue hard drive from an old desktop that apparently had not been powered on for more than seven years. The drive has always…
My computer has become noticeably slower over the past week or two, especially when loading new areas or files. For example, an older game that used to load…
My computer has developed a strange tapping or clicking noise that doesn't seem to come from the fans. I temporarily stopped the fans, but the sound continued. It…
My 512GB SSD is showing 0% health in both CrystalDiskInfo and Hard Disk Sentinel after recording about 66TB written. I was told that a 512GB SSD should typically…
After resizing my disk partitions, my laptop began showing a 300 SMART Hard Disk Error every time it boots. The system still starts, and a disk-health check reports…