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What’s the real capacity of your hard drive?

Stump the PC Club is a free tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. And don’t forget to stop by the Gadgetress’ home for the PC Club, at ocregister.com/link/pcclub, to find out how to ask a question [...]

How to clean up your hard drive

Stump the PC Club is a free tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which has been in existence since 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. And don’t forget to stop by the Gadgetress’ home for the PC Club, at ocregister.com/link/pcclub, to find out how to ask a question [...]

Hard Drive Speed

I’ve run some tests recently to determine the data rate of various hard drives, card readers and memory cards. Some of the results were rather surprising.

The program I used to test the various media was HDTach available at SimpliSoftware. The free version is enough to test the read speeds.

Here’s a summary of the results (all [...]