Questions tagged [disk-controller]
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Do algorithms for preventing SSD wearout exist? [duplicate]
For the sake of drives' (SSDs primarily) longevity, do there exist managing algorithms (built-in or optional/addition/third-party) implemented in drives' controllers or operating systems that take ...
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SSD or storage controller lag when copy files
I have 240GB Lexar NQ100 SSD in my old laptop (max read/write speed 500MB/s), split in two 100GB partitions, first partition is OS Windows 7 other empty so far.
I have copied 40GB of files one big ...
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How do I get these ports enabled?
I have a qNine 6 port data pcie controller card that will not enable ports 5 and 6. Or rather the card at boot does not display the HDDs attached. The card, however, does indicate there is some thing ...
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Is debugging bad hard-drives possible by intercepting SATA packages? [closed]
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Is there any way of debugging bad (as in no longer recognized) hard-drives?
Ideally an open-source tool that can interact with the device to capture/interpret SATA communication and ...
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Why can't a RAID controller mimic a drive controllers actions on a URE?
There is a fact: a URE renders an entire member of a RAID array as bad, but a URE DOES NOT render an entire drive as bad outside of an array. What is the technical difference that causes this? They ...
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How is it possible in this `cat` process that more bytes are being written than read?
I ran the following bash command to merge several big files
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt > merged.txt
The process is very long as the files make about 12 GB each. On the activity ...
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Dell PERC H310 suporta HDD 4kn?
Does anyone know if the controller PERC H310 supports HDD 4kN?
Recently I bought the HDD HGST HUS726020ALN610 2TB but when connecting can not configure.
The message PD MGMT:
Capacity: 232.37
State: ...
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External Hard Drive Problems in Event Viewer
I'm using a Western Digital My Passport Ultra (2TB) 1.5 years ago and I've recently been seeing a lot of problems with this external drive in event viewer.
So far, whenever I connect this to the ...
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SATA III PCI-E controller card hangs installers / live CD
This is a long shot, but figured I'd ask here to see if anyone has a solution to my problem.
I was wanting to put together an inexpensive file server, so I picked up an ECS motherboard that has an on ...
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Floppy Disk to ??? Controller
I have a motherboard which has:
SATA
IDE
Internal USB headers
I need to attach a floppy disk drive, but there is no onboard floppy disk controller. I've looked for the following:
Internal USB ...
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Diagnosing disk i/o errors, failing disk controllers
My PC has been constantly crashing with disk i/o errors recently and I'm trying to diagnose what the cause is before I order any new parts.
I have windows 7 installed on a ssd (with truecrypt) and I ...
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Disk I/O controller performance
I am building an home server with an old HP media center m8125x (link for all specs : http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/documentSubCategory?tmp_rule=23238&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&...
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How do I migrate a single drive (no RAID) running under RAID controller, to AHCI mode without losing the GPT partition on it?
I have a 3 TB drive formatted with the GPT partition style. I use it for data on my Windows 7 PC. I've made the drive accessible via the mount point D:
My motherboard's HDD controller mode has been ...
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i/o Bus Standards & Device Controllers
I'm really confused about bus standards like ide,ata,sata,pci etc.
I have just read this article :When a disk read or disk write occurs, where does the data go? So if we talk about hard disk drive; ...
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SSD stopped working suddenly. Any chance of data recovery?
I have been using a Corsair Force 3 (120GB) SSD since last 1.5 years.
Yesterday, the laptop freezed suddenly and I had to hard reset it.
Then it refused to boot as if no HDD was installed. This has ...
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