Questions tagged [hard-drive]
A hard disk drive (or HDD) is a non-volatile, random access device for storing digital data.
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C5 and C6 SMART errors, how bad is it? [duplicate]
A hard disk of mine shows C5 and C6 SMART errors:
"Uncorrectable" does not sound great, so I have ordered a replacement. However, it may ship in a few days, possibly 2nd of January due to ...
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Can't Install any OS on HP AiO Pro One (Intel i7)
I am trying to install Windows 11 on a HP computer which initially had Windows 11 dual booted with another Windows 11 for some reason and none of them were booting up. It was crashing on selecting any ...
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MDADM reshaping process over 20 days
I’m growing an existing Linux mdadm RAID-5 array from 4 to 5 disks and the reshape speed is extremely slow (~1-3 MB/s), with an estimated completion time of ~20–30 days. I’m trying to understand ...
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Can I delete ProgramData Aruba Networks Via?
My hard drive is desperately low on disk space, so I really need to delete stuff.
Searching for something big and maybe delete-able, I found C:\ProgramData\Aruba Networks\VIA
It's taking up 77.6 GB, ...
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My files went missing on old hard drive after plugging in a new hard drive. What happened and is it possible to recover? [duplicate]
I just attempted to install a new SATA hard drive to my system. When I booted up Windows, I was unable to see the new drive in Disk Management. In addition, I also noticed the other 2 drives on the ...
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Current state of software support for SMR HDDs?
This question is mostly result of theoretical musements of some IT guy who had to deal with cheap home security system and search for CMR HDD for it. It is asked purely out of curiosity.
The concept ...
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Why does my 24TB Seagate Expansion makes a grinding noise for a few seconds only if I connect it before turning on the PC?
My 24TB Seagate Expansion makes a grinding noise for a few seconds only if I connect it before turning on the PC, also in this case the computer takes twice as long to start up.
Otherwise If I connect ...
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mdadm - keep RAID 5 disks in standby when idle
I have a three disk RAID 5 array for a home Raspberry PI 5 based NAS. The drives are loud when the NAS is idle. I would like to minimize noise by putting the drives into standby after a few minutes of ...
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Why is my external HDD constantly accessing the disk? [duplicate]
One of my external hard drives is never going go sleep: It always rotates and I can hear the read/write head constantly doing something.
My operating system is Ubuntu. I could not find a process ...
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How to Use a Boot Disk USB for Mac Silicon if the client deleted their Macintosh HD Drive already?
The Only thing that comes up when I boot up the MacBook is the "Options" setting when trying to do disk recovery, and from there it won't do anything further, and the wheel keeps on a'...
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Windows won't boot off internal drives but boots fine off external drives
I am running Windows 10 on a Dell Inspiron laptop.
Today I changed the battery. When I went to boot up afterward, I got a blue screen with error # 0xc000000e . I don't know whether this was caused ...
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hard disks + optimizing a Hadoop DataNode on RHEL 7 for large sequential I/O workloads and looking into Linux block device read-ahead
I am optimizing a Hadoop DataNode on RHEL 7 to improve disk performance for large sequential I/O workloads and considering tuning the Linux block device read-ahead (blockdev --setra).
Current ...
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Why am I experiencing a RAID array drive error 792 when running smartctl when the RAID array seems to be working?
Pasted below the result of a smartctl scan of the one drive of the 4 in the array that is giving me issues.
The array seems to work (it's RAID 0) but the error code 792 I'm unsure about.
smartctl 7.4 ...
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How to connect a SAS drive to a SATA motherboard?
I'd like to add 8TB DELL Exos 7E8 drives, model ST8000NM0185, to my servers.
I bought these SAS->SATA adapters to connect them, but the drives aren't detected by the BIOS.
I mainly use ASUS ...
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Badblocks filling terminal with numbers and errors. What should I do next?
I'm currently testing a couple of 20TB disks using the "burn-in" procedure detailed over on the TrueNAS forums. Which basically consists of S.M.A.R.T. Short, Conveyance, and Long tests, ...
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