Questions tagged [drive-health]
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Do I have a bad SSD? Bad block count at 257
I have Adata su650 480GB SSD which is generally working fine. Recent check of SMART values using CrystalDiskInfo reports 257 bad block count. Now I need to know a few things with respect to this parameter
What is this bad block count and is it…
mmp
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HDD: 0x8007012E The volume is too fragmented to complete this operation
I have a 4TB HDD used for storing backups made by UrBackup server run on Ubuntu - but formatted as NTFS. (Ie, data was written by linux on NTFS drive). In windows Explorer and on Ubuntu it reports as being less than half full when asked about disk…
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How to check total written size to USB thumb drives?
(Asking in general but I need the answer specifically for SanDisk drives)
Is there a way to see total written size to USB thumb drives? Just like Samsung-Magician's SSD health check, but for thumb/flash drives.
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For example If you create a 2MB…
J. Doe
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6TB Errors - Prefailure GSmart Control
My 6TB is reporting these values - after some looking online - I'm not entirely sure if its "really bad" and going to fail or "somewhat normal" - Hoping someone can tell me
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CrystalDiskInfo claims my disk's health status is bad while Hard Disk Sentinel Pro claims my disk's health status is perfect. Who is right?
I have a external hard drive (Western Digital 5TB USB; WD50NDZW-11A8JS0). CrystalDiskInfo claims my disk's health status is bad while Hard Disk Sentinel Pro claims my disk's health status is perfect.
Looks like they disagree on current and worse…
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Is my HDD failing?
I tried to resize a partition of my 3-year-old HDD using gparted, but it failed and displayed a message saying that there were bad blocks and that was a sign of physical damage to the drive.
I used badblocks to check for bad blocks, and there are…
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Browser download files directly to external drive without copy to main drive
From a perspective of preserving the main drive life as much as possible,
it would be a good practice to download files directly to an external drive.
Browser Settings -> Downloads Directory -> [External Drive Folder]
But how much effective this…
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