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Tagged with hard-drive-failure smart
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What do the current, worst, and threshold SMART values mean?
I have a 2TB internal hard drive that might be failing. It spends several minutes at 100% usage when I first turn it on since I installed Windows 10, and yesterday it reported a corrupted Recycle Bin.
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Smart extended test fails on same LBA every time. Is my drive really dying?
I ran a smart extended test on my old laptop's hard disk, and got a read error. I ran it again, and it got the same LBA of the error. Does this mean the disk is really dying, or just that there is a ...
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Did a Primary Hard Disk Self Test on my HP Pavilion dm4; what do these results mean?
I did a Primary Hard Disk Self Test and I would want to know what the results mean. I do know that my Hard Disk has failures...
My laptop is HP Pavilion dm4.
This is the first screen picture and ...
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Anything I can do about erratic hard disk drive speeds
I don't seem to have very good luck with hard disk drives these days; 3 side-by-side (non-RAID) drives on my machine, replaced 5 drives in the last 4 years. My problem of the moment is that my largest ...
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How to determine which drive in a firmware RAID is failing
I have two drives in an Intel ICH10 RAID 1. They are not enterprise-level drives; just regular WD Caviar Black drives.
Recently, reading/writing to the mirrored volume has become extremely slow and ...
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WD NAS vs hd sentinel on disk health
My Western Digital My Book Live II, started failing some time ago, with a "Drive A Failed" message on the Web Interface monitor tool.
After replacing Drive A, with a new one, drive B failed also a ...
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SSD – smartctl – Status
I have a SAMSUNG SSD 830 Series SSD in my MacBook Pro. In my work, I need to analyse huges amounts of data. I have php scripts that extract the data, build csv sheets, then gnuplot generates hundreds ...
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Get number of reallocated sectors on harddrive without S.M.A.R.T
Is that possible? There is no S.M.A.R.T. information retrievable (used HD Tune to check that).
The background is that I want to check if the number of reallocated sectors on the harddrive changes ...
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Software is showing that my hard disk has 3 days to live. Can I repair it?
Hard Disk Sentinel is showing that my hard disk has 3 days to live. Can I repair it?
This is what I got after a disk check from Windows:
Any ideas?
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