Why does my 8TB Seagate drive drop to under 1 MB/s during writes?
I bought an 8TB Seagate ST8000DM004-2CX188 hard drive second-hand and did not test it properly at the time. I know this is an SMR drive, but I have…
storage performance
Why does Steam take so long to patch games when my SSD hits 100% usage?
Steam downloads updates at normal speed, but applying the update can take nearly an hour. For example, a roughly 500 MB update finished downloading quickly, then spent almost…
Why Are USB 3 Transfer Speeds Stuck Around 5–20 MB/s in Windows 11?
I performed a clean installation of Windows 11 Pro 25H2 on a system with an ASRock Z890 Pro RS WiFi motherboard, Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF processor, and…
Can I Improve the Speed of My External SSDs by Installing Them Internally?
I've been gradually upgrading my PC to eliminate performance bottlenecks, and now I'm focusing on storage, particularly for speeding up game load times. I have accumulated a few…
Is Switching to Grafana Mimir Better for Performance Compared to Prometheus?
Hey everyone! We're considering a switch from using standalone Prometheus to Grafana Mimir, mainly to gain some performance and efficiency benefits. Right now, we have two separate Prometheus…
Are the RAID Performance Numbers I'm Seeing Normal?
I recently took over management of a Windows Server using a PowerEdge with an H710P RAID controller, configured with four Crucial BX500 SSDs set up in RAID 10.…
How Long Does Encryption Take on Dell ME5024 with 3.2TB Drives?
I'm looking to enable full disk encryption on my Dell ME5024 storage system, which has 10 drives of 3.2TB each and currently 17TB of used capacity. I contacted…
Is it important to choose between chipset and CPU PCI-E lanes for my M.2 SSD?
I'm planning to upgrade my AMD 9800X3D/9070XT build and need some advice. I'm repurposing my WD PCI-E Gen 4.0 SN850X 4TB as the main data drive, while I'm…