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Temperature threshold CrystalDiskInfo value
Could you please help me get understand what this value (C2 Temperature Threshold 70) means and do I have to worry about ssd or do i need to replace? :
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Will tools like shred, wipe or dd (or hard drives in general) check that a write was successful?
I usually use shred to delete complete hard drives.
But I was wondering if and how tools like shred, wipe or dd verify that the expected bits end up on the hard drive.
Does a hard drive always check ...
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Is it only writting to a HDD which causes failure? [duplicate]
This is probably a dumb question, but for platter drives specifically, is it only writing to them which causes eventual failure?
Like, if you wrote a load of data once, and then only ever read it ...
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Does spinning harddrive not showing up in BIOS suggest logic board failure?
My 2 TB 3.5" SATA harddrive failed while being used in an USB enclosure. I'm trying to determine the cause based on the symptoms.
The drive fails to work in two working SATA-USB enclosures on ...
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Internal HDD not showing up anymore
One of my internal hard disks(out of 3) stopped showing up in Disk management(Windows) or Disks(Ubuntu). Its showing up in BiOS.
These are what i could find from ubuntu terminal:
"sdc is the one ...
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Harddisk with >10k bad sectors
My computer has two drive : SSD for C drive ,HDD for D drive
My Windows OS is installed in C drive
Recently ,when I click the folders ,the File Manager always hangs. I cant even turn off the computer (...
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Hard drives seemingly no longer has bad sectors on it after erase and reformat
I have a Seagate SSHD laptop hard drive. When I use Seagates Software SeaTools. The drive used to fail the short drive self-tests and the long generic test. When it failed tests sea tools would warn ...
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WD External Harddisk turning on and off repeatedly
It's a 5yrs+ old 3TB external harddisk running fine until a couple of months ago when I had a power outage.
After that, it stopped functioning properly. It stays on (with all the data intact), and ...
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How does storage space (Simple), without resilience, save the files on the harddisk
If you create for example 3x4tb Storage spaces, without any resilience (simple), and one drive crashes, will you lose everything, or just that's on just that drive?
is it saving the data in stripes ...
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How to copy a Large disk to multiple smaller ones
So I have a 2TB HDD drive that is about to fail. I have around 1.5TB of used space. Now I want to copy all the files from my Big drive to smaller ones. I have 3 500GB drives. The problem is that there ...
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How to stop unused dying hard drive from clicking
Since a week ago I have been getting a warning on start-up that my hard-drive is about to fail. It also makes an extremely annoying clicking sound. I have tried disabling it in device manager but when ...
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Should I back up the data on a RAID 5 that had one drive fail?
I have a CentOS server that uses a RAID 5 array for data storage. Recently, one of the four drives in the array failed, and I was wondering whether it makes more sense to back up everything on the ...
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New HDD is "clicking" HTS721010A9E630 1TB Windows 10
I have question related with my new HDD - is it normal that it "clicks"?
I pickup my notebook from RMA (they changed old HDD), and I noticed that it make sometimes weird sound (mostly when I turn ...
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My Hitachi HDD cannot be read or written to, but SMART results and others are OK. Why?
I do not care about any data on the drive and I do not intend to store important data on the drive in future - this is purely an academic exercise!
Attempting to read or write results in a failure:
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Is there any way to transfer programs between laptops?
My old laptop that I do a lot of work on is starting to die. I have a lot of really important programs on there that would suck to lose.
Is there a way to perhaps copy these programs and allow them ...
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