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Full Format New 5 TB WD HDD external after 95% there is power outage

Full Format New 5 TB WD HDD external after 95% (after 60 hours of format) there is power outage so it fail to finish then i power on the laptop then use quick format to do format. Should i be worry if there is damage or bad sector or…
Prince Charming
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mean time before failure is given, but variance is missing

I have 8TB HDD WD Gold. Here they claim 2M MTBF (mean time before failure) hours. What is the statistical variance (estimated at least) of this data ?
user865044
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WD 4 TB My Passport Portable Makes Clicking Sound. After falling not getting detected. Clicks 16 times then rotation stops

Issue: My 4TB WD Passport Drive fell from the desk and since then makes clicking noise. Video of the issue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cfWMObC... Video of Clicking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHjnaW3p... I opened the HDD in a clean…
Shashank Sinha
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Why is my RAID 1 NAS (WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra) reporting RAID health "degraded" after replacing one disk and RAID rebuild?

I have a WD My Cloud EX2 Ultra NAS, almost 6 years old, and got a red light on it recently, indicating a disk problem. The NAS web dashboard reported one of the disks is bad, so I bought a replacement - brand new WD Red disk from a reputable…
osullic
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Western Digital PCB swap: What codes matter?

I read all about it here but am confused slightly https://www.effectiveelectronics.com/blog/western-digital-hard-drive-pcb-swapping-replacement-guide/ I have a WD2500JB-00GVC0 This site says the DCM doesn't matter, at all. But there is a little code…
silverfish
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How to add quicklinks/shortcuts for directories in powershell?

I'm looking for a functionality similar to wd with ZSH where you can add a "warp point" A and then use wd A to change to that directory. I searched for something like this but I wasn't successful. Maybe, I didn't use the proper key words.. Any idea…
Philipp A.
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What is using my external hard drive, without my permission, and how can I stop it?

I've noticed for a while now that my WD passport (2TB) blinks by itself, so I looked into the issue and checked in Resource Manager to see what's going on. In Resource Manager I saw that almost every program had its hand in my hard drive, including…
Ahmad Kouatli
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How to use dd to backup "WD My Passport" on Ubuntu

My "WD My Passport" has problem when connecting to Windows 10, it may have hardware error. I have set a password for the "WD My Passport" with WD Security long time ago. Windows now shows "Application not found" when clicking on the "CD Driver". And…
stackbiz
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WD NAS PR4100 - Expansion - Upgrade Drive Capacity

I've searched on this topic for a while before I bought my new drives. First I tried cloning the drives; that didn't work. So I did the "preferred" method. Replace and rebuild each drive in order. Step 1) Replace Drive 1; Do manual rebuild with new…
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External Hard Disk USB 3 Power Port Requires Cable to be Pressed Against it for Hard Disk to Get Power

I have an external WD 4TB USB hard drive. Hard disk gets power only when microusb 3.0 type B end of cable is pressed by force of hands against microusb 3.0 type B socket of external hard drive. If force of hands is removed, external hard drive power…
user2619039
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Recover data from broken wd hard disk by replacing the head

I have a broken wd hard disk, see this link for the detail status: How to use dd to backup "WD My Passport" on Ubuntu Because it is not allowed to ask more than one question in the same post, so I ask this new question in this new post. In order to…
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