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: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Hi.<BR><BR>For some reason, my workstation's hard disk becomes very active a few minutes after the screen saver kicks in. It sounds like it is doing a chkdsk or defrag. The minute I touch the mouse, ...