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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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What does "spare capacity available: 99%" mean in a disk report?
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice
I felt need of testing because some of my stored games were failing to boot properly. Quick test from HD Tune Pro app displayed 3 red blocks in one of the test runs and a full test always reports 3 ...
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Interpret the output of smartctl for SSD and hard drive
I have dropped my external hard drive on the floor recently and wanted to know if the electronic parts and mechanical parts were damaged. I have no idea how to find this out from the output of ...
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Hard Drive Failure? - Reallocated Sector Count
I recently noticed Windows was extremely slow and some programs failed to run.
The hard disk is checked during boot randomly. Sometimes checks go to Stage 5: 100s of thousands of sectors.
After a ...
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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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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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Are SMART Data Address Mark errors a concern on an SSD in particular?
I have a Crucial 500 GB SSD (CT500MX500SSD4) which is reporting a non-zero number of data address mark errors. Other parameters appear fine (wear leveling is occurring, there are currently no I/O ...
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Can a PSU outage cause a Mechanical Start Failure on a S.M.A.R.T. drive?
Recently, my PSU crunched out on me and I had to replace it. The drive in question was running at the time, and during an attempt at start up afterwards (during which the PSU did not output enough ...
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High amount of high fly writes on recently bought disk
I recently (about a week ago) bought a hard drive (Seagate ST3000VN007), and set up S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring. I also used badblocks on it to see if there was any important damage because of the shipping ...
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What could cause the power-on hours of a disk to reset?
I have three hard disks in my laptop, bought about 4½ years ago (March 2013). One 500 GB disk is from an older laptop (so 5+ years old), one 500 GB came with the laptop, and I added a 1 TB disk two ...
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StorageSpaces reports Media Failure and retired the drive, but the drive appears fine
A few days ago my computer started acting funny with mysterious errors and crashes, it felt like it maybe should have BSOD'ed "to prevent damage to my computer", but didn't. It took half an hour to ...
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Hard Drive Failure - Next Steps and Process
I have a 2TB Barracuda that has some bad sectors (detected via CrystalDiskInfo). When I turned on my computer, I cannot detect my D:, E:, F:... which are all mapped to my failed disk. What I mean is ...
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HDD S.M.A.R.T. information
Hello. Yesterday I was trying to install a program, when it got stuck. Afterwards, I saw a notice from Windows saying I should back up my data. I know if S.M.A.R.T. tells you something is wrong, then ...
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Failing hard drive or bad controller after hard shutdown
After nouveau freezing everything with dual monitor for the millionth time I had to cut power on my macbook pro (mid 2010, fedora 24, SAMSUNG HN-M500MBB hard drive). Wasn't doing anything IO heavy ...
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Synology NAS smart error
I have an old Synology DS209 running DSM 4.2-3256 and have 2 hard disks installed (raid 1) I have read something similar on How can I verify the health of hard disks using a Synology NAS?
And have ...
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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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