While attempting to track down the cause of some unexplained disk activity, a reader discovered that it was caused by a background process associated with running MS Word v.X demo. Bill Miller writes: ...

Sometimes your Mac may not run as smoothly or as quickly as you expect. And the culprit may be a single application. A lone app can bump into performance issues, slowing down not just itself but your ...

Some people have wondered why Disk Utility shows a 25-35MB/sec transfer rate when the hard drive installed on the system is a SATA II device that has a theoretical maximum transfer rate of 300MB/sec.

For those Mac users who love to push their hardware to its limits, the OS X Activity Monitor (found in Applications > Utilities) can be a handy tool. I often use it to find out if one process or ...

Resource Monitor or Resmon lets you easily monitor your CPU usage, memory usage, Disk Activity, Network Activity and more. Like the Reliability Monitor or the Performance Monitor, the Resource Monitor ...

I started up this morning and did some video capture and editing. I expect a lot of hard disk thrashing whilst Premiere is running. But I finished and closed the program down, and still hear loads of ...

0x0003 4 0 R_ERR response for device-to-host data FIS 0x0004 4 0 R_ERR response for host-to-device data FIS 0x0005 4 0 R_ERR response for non-data FIS 0x0006 4 0 R ...

Slow hard drive speeds can affect your company's ability to run programs, process files and render video. Checking your hard disk periodically can help to assess the condition of your computer and ...

Want to do a quick performance check on your Linux system? You might want to take a look at the dstat command. Linux provides a number of commands that provide information about disk and system ...

When we last left our intrepid blogger (way back on Friday), he’d pointed the finger at Vista’s Disk Defragmenter and cried, “J’accuse!” To recap, my otherwise blazing PC was suffering from ...