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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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How do you manually recover a failed internal HDD? [duplicate]
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A SATA hard drive suffered mechanical failure (a little while after percussive shock) and OSX declared it unreadable despite ...
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Do random accesses wear hard disks?
For classical, old-style, non solid state hard disks (HDD), I know that random accesses are much slower than sequential accesses since the physical tip needs to jump from one point of the disk to ...
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Is I/O error sufficient reason to return SSD on warranty?
Several times I’ve encountered heavy disk errors leading to complete system crash, after reboot m/b doesn’t detect SSD till full PC poweroff.
Here is log I've managed to display before OS gone ...
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Would frequently reinstalling Linux distros affect the life of my hard disk?
I have Ubuntu and Fedora Linux distributions on my computer. I try to tweak many things in both of them and many times mess things up. So I normally reinstall the OS to fix it (as a last resort).
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