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Failing HDDs - detection, backup strategies and reuse
I have a 2TB Seagate HDD that I believe has reached the end of its life in my primary Windows 11 box. It is the data drive - it contains things like video games, source code (backed by a remote repo), ...
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Is it bad keeping an external hard drive on my desk – given vibrations from typing on keyboard?
I keep an external hard disk on my desk, which is usually turned off, but I will plug it in occasionally to do backups of my computer.
A friend told me that it's a bad idea to be typing on the ...
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How to avoid losing data by disk corruption?
I've had following situation:
Data & Backups: I had a computer (with Windows 10) with data (some files "static" like photos, others with more like "work in progress" things ...
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Most resilient container for archiving many small files
Recently I've setup a new system to handle my data hoarding needs. I have a few HDDs (2TB, 4TB, 8TB, looking to add more soon) in a StableBit DrivePool without duplication. An external 8TB HDD where I ...
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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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How likely is it that backups made against a failing hard drive will be corrupt?
I had the hard disk portion of a fusion drive fail, starting with slow access and culminating in unable to boot in a period of a day. I have regular Time Machine backups. I'd much rather restore the ...
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Toshiba Satellite Pro L300 1AI with Vista
I have an old Toshiba Satellite Pro L300 1AI laptop which has been getting slow to boot over time. Issue has occured where after a 10 minute startup into Vista, it freezes (including action bar clock)....
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HDD Raw Read Error Rate over limit
I've been trying to make a clone of this HDD for a day now, but it's been horribly slow. Someone recommended doing a chkdsk on the drive and then rebooting, but chkdsk was going way too slow as well—...
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