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It might work, but it's not a good idea. If your motherboard is running the RAM in dual channel mode and they are mismatched, it can lead to a BSOD nightmare. Always best to use a matching RAM set.

As an option, we offer free certified hard drive wiping here: https://www.data-medics.com/free-hard-drive-wiping-service-hdd-destruction/ We just keep the drives and use them for parts later in our data recovery work.

Well, that's your personal experience and has little to no relevance to real-world statistics. Those of us who work in data recovery and can collect data on failure rates of thousands of drives all agree that HGST and Toshiba are the most reliable 2.5" drives. Just FYI all laptop drives will...

It's most likely a hardware issue. If the drive's not clicking it can almost certainly be recovered by a data recovery company with the right equipment. But, probably not DIY. Actually, among the 2.5" size drives Toshibas are probably the most reliable drives out there. Hitachi drives are...

There wasn't a heatsink on the CPU?

Sorry, I'm late coming into this thread. I'm not on this forum every day. Happy to hear you got it resolved. For cases like yours, where we suspect that the PCB may not be bad but just gummed up with syrup, we do basically the same thing. We generally soak it overnight or for 4+ hours in a...

Not really a correction of what you said. You were correct. I was just clarifying why I had earlier said that Greens were all 5400 RPM. When you spend most of your days fixing broken hard drives and recovering data like I do, it becomes apparent how much misinformation is spread on the web...

Yeah, and the ones that are 5900 actually still idle at 5400 RPM, so that' generally considered their nominal speed. They only scroll up the speed to 5900 during times of heavy activity.

You're listing a whopping 10 out of around 1000 different models that WD makes. I'm afraid you're looking at a very limited pool of data my friend. That list is just what's featured on the WD homepage at the moment. There are literally hundreds of models of just the 1Tb variety. It's true...

Actually, if you really want to get technical, NVMe is the communications protocol but it uses a PCIe controller and PCIe lanes rather than SATA lanes and SATA protocol.

If you've got another blank drive of the same or larger size that you can use as a clone then you might consider ddrescue in Linux. It's one of the only programs designed to skip around bad sectors while reading as much good data as possible. It'll usually get 50% better results than any...

Actually, WD RED drives come in 7200 RPM varieties too. They just have an extra sensor to help them compensate for effects of vibration as well as a few RAID friendly firmware features that prevent them from causing stalls if one drive hits a slow read in an array with redundancy. They also...

The total size of the physical RAM on the HDD PCB is 32Mb. However, part of the HDD's own firmware code must be stored there to avoid constant accessing of the service area tracks (that area you hear it read when a drive first boots up) and the configuration pages stored in the ROM (a much...

I agree with everyone else here that it's unlikely you need more RAM. Just as a test, open up Resource Monitor on your computer and leave it running while you do whatever it is you normally do when you start getting lag. As soon as you start to get some lag, quickly switch over and see what...

This seems like an idea that an engineer with no concept of reality would try to sell you on.

According to Asus it is definitely eMMC memory on there: https://www.asus.com/us/2-in-1-PCs/ASUS_Transformer_Book_T100TA/specifications/ We have the equipment to read eMMC, assuming the memory chip(s) aren't what went bad. It's not particularly cheap though since we've usually got to dig a...

Actually, a 32bit addressing system is able to address exactly 4Gb of memory since the addressing is using 32 bits, which is 2 to the power of 32 or 4,294,967,296 bytes (exactly 4Gb when using the 1024 divisibles that Windows uses). It's only because most motherboards allocate some memory to...

Yeah, that's definitely not recommended and you'll probably only get about 6 minutes of battery life that way. Not good for your phone, as it really wasn't meant to do that.

Are you running a 64-bit operating system or a 32-bit one? 32-bit OS will cap your RAM and there's really no getting around it other than to upgrade you OS. EDIT: oops, just saw that you picture does show it's a 64-bit OS, nevermind.

Generally speaking, you can't run a full HDD off an iPad or iPhone. A small flash drive, such as _Pete_ suggested in his first link, but not a full HDD. Why not network this. Either by buying a NAS hard drive and all devices connect to it via the network, or by connecting the drive to the...