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5,813 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Diffing an entire hard drive, available tools?
There's an existing question similar to this that didn't get answered in the proper context (a massive volume of data to compare) at all, so I'm trying again here.
I'm using SuperDuper to maintain a ...
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btrfs does not show drive as missing
I am trying out btrfs and I noticed some funny behaviour:
I have two drives in a raid 1 configuration.
sudo btrfs fi show
Label: none uuid: 52b9c6f6-ce5c-4727-861e-e2fd012e475f
Total devices 2 ...
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Does SpinRite still prevent/predict crash failure in modern hard drives?
Yesterday I attended a presentation by Western Digital that discussed various innovations in rotating hard drive internals, including perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR), heat-assisted magnetic ...
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Windows 8 System.exe writes to HDD like crazy
I have checked Application event logs and found that every second about 20 entries for MSSQL Server were recorded. Removed the server and all its components and the problem is gone... Thanks everyone ...
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mdadm RAID monitoring no DegradedArray email
So, I have a couple of MDADM RAID arrays and I want to set up monitoring with email notifications for drive failures through sSMTP but I can't seem to get it working.
The system in question is a ...
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Average/General RAID 0 "Chunk Size"?
EDIT: this got closed as being "opinion based". i disagree! the facts are, i have to choose one of five Chunk Size options when creating a RAID on Mac. i don't know which size to choose for ...
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Understanding MCE errors on Linux
I got an MCE hardware error on Linux. I used rasdaemon to log all errors. Here is what ras-mc-ctl --errors prints me
41 2023-01-03 10:50:51 +0100 error: Corrected error, no action required., CPU 2, ...
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Formatting a failing & write-locked SSD
I have a failing 4 TB 870 Evo SSD. It has lasted less than a year (thanks Samsung). I believe the SSD has entered a read-only mode because it is failing. Any disk enumeration tasks take 30 seconds ...
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Any way to tweak Windows' kernels or drives to handle I/O and reduce or eliminate hangs with failing drives?
I frequently work with failing hard drives for data recovery and various tasks. These tasks are usually short lived in nature, but important. The way Windows seems to handle any failing drive that's ...
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Chkdsk for a specific directory or File !?!? The Syntax
I need help to chkdsk a specific Directory : F:\GOG\*.*
I am too stupid to understand the chkdsk sytax for file:
CHKDSK [Volume[[Pfad]Dateiname]]] [/F] [/V] [/R] [/X] [/I] [/C] [/L[:Größe]][/B] [/scan]...
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As of late 2020, is optane still worth considering?
If I want very fast NVMe storage for general usage, is Optane still a good option?
In the past, I read that Optane/3D Xpoint was superior in situations that didn't just require raw throughput, mainly ...
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How do I format disk from UEFI shell?
I need to format 2 disks from pre-built UEFI shell.
So I have 2 questions.
How do I format a disk from UEFI Shell?
How do I know what is the disk name or label?
By the way, in the first question I ...
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What is practical size for bcache cache size with respect to hdd size?
There are plenty of manuals how to implement bcache, how to select correct bucket size, how to resize (grow) backing device and so on. This includes, but doesn't limits to in-kernel documentation, ...
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How to unlock NVME disk locked with ATA security
I've locked my NVME drive in the BIOS with a USER and MASTER password.
I'm looking to unlock this drive on another machine.
How can I do this?
I've tried working with nvme-cli. This should be able ...
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Is there a way to disable a hard drive in the UEFI?
BIOS allowed to disable specific hard drives. However I don't seem to find information about how to do it in UEFI. I would like to dual-boot, but I strongly prefer each Operating System (Which will be ...
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