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How to interpret SMART Reallocated Sectors Count (WD Elements)
Update, 23 later: the drive failed, most data can't be read, even though the SMART values did not deteriorate a lot. I wanted to replace it in two weeks, since I was busy. Don't fall into a "this ...
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How can I test external HDDs after 3 computers fail to turn on after using external HDDs?
In the same week, I’ve had 3 computers fail to turn on when being connected to my two external HDDs. The drives are a LaCie 500Gb and an IBM 250Gb in an OWC case. Both connect through Firewire 800 or ...
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Disk Malfunctioned But They All Disappeared - Is This Disk Still Trustworthy?
I have encountered a situation I have never seen before. I recently bought an Seagate One Touch 5TB external HDD, and to ensure it would store data properly, I tried to run chkdsk. However before that,...
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Trying to understand SmartCRTL results: Normed value less than the worst value?
Please see the below output of smartctl for external hard drive. For attribute: Offline_Uncorrectable, the current normed-value is less that the worst value.
How is it possible? It should be always ...
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WD 4 TB My Passport Portable Makes Clicking Sound. After falling not getting detected. Clicks 16 times then rotation stops
Issue: My 4TB WD Passport Drive fell from the desk and since then makes clicking noise.
Video of the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cfWMObC...
Video of Clicking: https://www.youtube.com/...
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How to make best use of only good sectors/partitions on a semi-faulty HDD?
Some time ago, I've been given a Toshiba 1TB external USB drive for free.
The reason for this giveaway was that the drive allegedly stops copying/reading at random and is therefore too faulty to use. ...
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How should I interpret this "Bad disk" report by CrystalDiskInfo?
Today, I have gone through the process of individually plugging in all my ten current backup disks and checked them with CrystalDiskInfo 8.17.8 x64 in order to determine whether I dare to keep using ...
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SuperSpeed USB Port causes power surge on external Harddrive?
I was testing my new laptop hub and attempted to plug in my extern hard drive to on of the SuperSpeed USB-A Ports. Explorer openend normally and I was able to browse files until I opened a certain ...
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Every time that my WD external drive spins-down, Unsafe_shutdown_count (SMART) increases
I've got a brand new WD D10 for about 20 days now, and I'm using it with my Linux machine.
To turn it off, I first umount the drive, then I use udisksctl power-off /dev/xxx to safely remove the device....
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Is this drive with no indication of failure in S.M.A.R.T is dying?
Here is the S.M.A.R.T report for my external drive:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME FLAG VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate 0x002f 196 196 ...
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How to evaluate SSD & HDD time to failure (remaining lifespan) and can their health be restored?
I'd like to calculate the longevity of my SSD and mechanical hard drives as of right now.
The calculated remaining lifespan would help me to take timely measures such as increasing backup frequency. I'...
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Hard drive not detected
I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I am desperately in need of finding the solution, so here goes.....
Back story :
Yesterday I dropped my phone on my laptop keyboard ...
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chkdsk An unspecified error occured (6c6f6766696c652e 2a9)
I ran the chkdsk /f command for my external Toshiba 2TB hard drive. It ran the first two stages just fine. However, gave an error at the 3rd Stage. Following is the output log from chkdsk at Stage 3 ...
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Effect of HDD age on disk failure
I've got an old 1TB Seagate external drive I've been using to backup a laptop for years. The disk started making a periodic noise this morning approx. every second. It's softer than I'd describe as a ...
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