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Can techniques for hard disk be applied to ssd?
I would like to know the techniques for hard disk are still available for ssd.
Suppose that we use a solid state disk based on nand flash memory for second storage(without hard disk).
when we read ...
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How to recover a truecrypt container from a corrupt NTFS drive
On my external HDD which is formatted in NTFS I have a truecrypt container. I plugged my drive in today and windows gave me an error that I need to format the disk. How would I go about recovering my ...
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eBook Reader Linux Kernel upgrades? [closed]
I have an itomic eBook reader whose operating system seems to be corrupted. The manufacturer is no longer in business and I wish to install/reinstall the operating system for this ereader but I cannot ...
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How to measure disk performance?
I am going to "fix" a friend's computer this weekend. By the symptoms he describes it looks like he has a disk performance problem with his 5400 rpm disk. I want to be sure that disk is the problem so ...
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Windows 8 extremely high disk usage and slow IO
Problem
After upgrading from Windows 7 to Windows 8 Professional, there seem to be a few disturbing problems.
When I have the Task Manager open, I sometimes notice the disk usage climbing to 50, ...
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Size of Linux VM XL local disk space
I want to create a Linux VM server but I don't know what is the default disk size when you create the new server.
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Can a RAID 0 be “seen” but not accessed when a drive fails?
I have a machine running Windows XP SP3 with a RAID 0 (2x 500GB). A few days ago, a message appeared in Windows saying one of the drives had a problem, but it ran a test (with Windows RAID Manager, or ...
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ULTRABOOK using de SSD: is the SSD available for data storage?
I recently installed W8 Professional in my SAMSUNG ULTRABOOK. When I finished I executed Disk Management Tool to create a new partition and I saw that the SSD volume appears as "Unallocated". What ...
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show linux disk space use by directory
There are times I'm over or near my quota on my shared hosting service.
It can often be a chore to track down where large files are. I once found a 500mb zip file in a deeply nested directory.
I'm ...
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Mac Lion OS X - I deleted files, but the disk free space is not increased
I had on Mac Lion OS X just 0.5GB of free space, so I deleted like 15 GB movies => OS X wanted to confirm this operation by filling out the password => I did it and the files were deleted.
I checked ...
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RAM Disk software (many of them) have slow speed with small files [closed]
We need to find a good RAM disk software for using it with MS Analysis Services Multidimensional (to put some cubes with recent data - 2-3 month, and to speed up the data retrieval).
I've tested 5 ...
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mdadm disk partition type : Linux RAID Autodetect mandatory or 83 Linux ok?
Main question : Q1:
i would like to know when using mdadm, the "Linux RAID Autodetect" type is mandatory for my disk, or a "83 linux" type is ok ?
Sub question : Q1_1 :
What are the differences ?
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SATA Raid-0 Mixing SATA-II + SATA-III: Change jumper?
I have 2 SATA hard disks
They are 2 TB each.
Both are WDC Greens
Respective models of *EARS *EARX
EARX is SATA-III While the other is not.
While the raid does function as is, would there be any - ...
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Diskpart “readonly” attribute discrepancy for disk
I was using DiskPart to set the readonly attribute on my USB flash drive. I used the command
select disk 1 //disk 1 is my flashdrive
attributes disk set readonly
detail disk
On executing detail ...
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External Mac harddrive read errors
I have an external drive (500gb WD Passport) with some data on that I would like to access. The disk is formated with Mac OS Extended (journaled, case sensitive), ignoring file ownership.
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Multiple VM's one VHD
Is there a way to mount one VHD (or other disk image alike) between multiple Virtual Machines. I don't mean OS Image, just like a shared disk drive. I know I can have a file-server smb like share. ...
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How to access old partitions after installing Ubuntu?
This might be a really silly question, but I installed Ubuntu yesterday (which is awesome) but I can't seem to locate any of the other drives that I had hooked up. It's as if the partition with the ...
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How to list hard disks to choose one to boot from at the startup
I don't know if it is possible or not but want to clarify posting here and don't want to miss it unnecessarily if it could be accomplished.
I have 3 hard disks installed with 3 different operating ...
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Missing space on hdd linux?
michaelxu@michaelxu-server:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 71G 65G 2.0G 98% /
none 495M 224K 495M 1% /dev
none ...
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What's a good disk test that uses random data?
I'm trying to test a Linux driver, and I need a test like bonnie or dbench, but I need it to send random data. I'm trying to find corruption bugs, and if every write is all zeros I can't tell when I ...
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DISK BOOT FAILURE with Windows 7: How to deal with it? Nothing helps
since last sunday I've got a problem with my PC after I connected an external HDD.
After connecting everything was fine, I copied things on the HDD and from the HDD to my PC.
On my setup: I've got 2 ...
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Ubuntu won't start after partition secondary disk
I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 (no dual boot) and tried installed secondary 3TB Seagate SATA disk.
I used GParted to partition the disk into a 2.0TB partition and a 800odd GB partition (remainder) and ...
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Format with TexFAT filesystem
Is it possible to format a device (USB stick or hard disk) with a TexFAT or TxF file system? If so, how? Is a special driver or program required for XP or Vista to be able to do this? I can find no ...
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Is my SSD drive going bad? SMART error
Is there something wrong with my SSD drive ? It's still under warranty so I can replace it ;)
SMART Error Log Version: 1
ATA Error Count: 1
CR = Command Register [HEX]
FR = Features ...
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Which SCM is less disk intensive? (GIT vs SVN vs others)
I wonder which of the pouplar SCM's (especially I am interested in GIT, SVN)
is less disk intensive.
The thing is that, I was going to get an SSDisk (SSD) ) and they have limited write cycles.
And I ...
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Access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows
Can I access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows? It could be very useful for external drives.
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Use losetup and dd to make filesystems images ready to be deployed
Introduction
Using dd, one can easily backup the MBR and partition table of a disk. It's as easy as: dd if=/dev/disk2 of=~/Desktop/disk2_mbr bs=512 count=1
One can also backup whole partitions: dd ...
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What is the difference between VHD and virtual disk?
I am studying for mcsa and have got myself so confused. What is the difference if any?
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How to make an alias to a part of a block device
Is it possible to make a part of a block device to be seen as a separate block device (in a similar way block 'devices' are created for partitions)? Unfortunately, I can't mount it through loop device ...
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on a server does master boot record formating of the disk support the dynamic disk type?
If I convert a disk from basic to dynamic is it possible to format it to master boot record (MBR) or is it just possible to format with GPT?
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Why can't i recover a raid disk which apparently has no errors
For several years now we run a software RAID1 on a old Gentoo box with a custom Linux 2.6.31. The RAID consists of 2 harddisk with 4 partitions each. In the last years it happend about 3-4 times that ...
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Booting an HP computer onto disk
Simple question:
How do I boot an HP dv7-4053cl into bios where I can boot to a CD instead of the internal HDD?
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How do I count the bytes outputted by another program in Bash/Linux?
Say I have a program that writes to a bunch of places on the filesystem. It runs from a single executable. I want to determine, at any point in its run (it runs for a long time), how many bytes it has ...
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Damaged disk recovery
I have a damaged hard drive. It works well till disk reads specific sector, the disk shut down and the only way to make it work again is to plug it on again.
On the Error scan screenshot from HD Tune ...
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Truecrypt 7.1a says: Can not shrink the filesystsem (to make room for volume header)?
I tried to encrypt my non-system hard drive filled with data (1TB, 37gb free) using truecrypt 7.1a
After start it says: "Can not shrink the filesystsem (need to shrink fs to make room for volume ...
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How to prevent I/O hiccup caused by single process?
I'm looking for a way to prevent single process from slowing whole desktop system (ubuntu 11) by massive disk I/O. Is there any tool that would allow to limit disk operations rate per process or even ...
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GParted errors on MBR Disk, Claims it's GPT. (It's mistaken, but why?)
It's very tempting for me to go on a rant here about GParted and Linux, but I'll do my best to avoid it. :)
Question:
Why does GParted claim that my disk is corrupted and GPT, whereas the Disk ...
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How to image / copy my drive to a new drive on a Mac
I am looking into upgrading my MacBook's drive and would like to transfer the current's drive contents on the new drive.
This is a relatively well covered topic here, and several solutions such as ...
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Will switching my driver to my installed memory make my watching streams smoother [closed]
I have an Acer aspire x3810 that has 2% free space in ACER(c:),(3.32GB), and has 87% free
space in DATA(D:).122.55GB. Will moving files and programs to this other storage help my gaming and watching ...
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Is there `top` for disk usage [duplicate]
How to track disk usage (write/read and other cool stuff) in realtime with fashion of top in the only right system in shell?
It would be cool if it could monitor specific directory.
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What is the purpose of frequent I/O operations on “/Device/Mup” on windows?
For example, from Process Monitor app:
There is very little web information about it suprisingly; not even about what "\device\mup" is.
edit:
Further information:
Command Line of process ...
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Rapid SSD degradation
I have a Kingston mSATA SSD (Kingston SSDNow mS100 64GB mSATA Internal Solid State Drive SMS100S2/64G) I bought about 6 months ago. When I tested it with AS SSD Benchmark right after the first ...
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CCleaner erased most of the free space
I tried to use "Erase free space" from CCleaner in Mac. I was not sure about how it would work. When the process started there was about 175 GB of space available, and when the space started to ...
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Connecting SATA Hard Disk drive as a slave/secondary disk to a PC?
I have a SATA Hard Disk Drive(HDD)which I want to connect to my PC as secondary/slave disk. The PC has one Primary HDD which is SATA interface too.
As we know SATA HDD's have no jumpers to set it as ...
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Max HDD Size for MacBook Pro Late 2011
I wanna know what is the max hard disk size supported for a Macbook Pro late 2011 (md314). I know it should be a 2.5" SATA I/II/II (9.5mm) HD, but don't know if it's 1TB or more. Already have a 180GB ...
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Partition splitting or resizing
I want to split up the partition where Windows 7 (primary partition) resides in 2 parts using Paragon Partition Manager 12. I have also other 2 partition on disk: one is a recovery (also a primary ...
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Safe and fast way to move a partition to begining of disk?
How can I move a partition to beginning of the disk in a fast and safe way?
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Windows partition manager from command line
Is there a tool that can be used to partition a disk (SD card in particular) from the command line? The purpose of this is for batch processing and customized GUI.
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Can I change a disk from drive to mounted?
I added a disk to a W2K8R2 machine, and gave it a drive letter: X
I want to change that, and mount it as a folder now.
Is that even possible? How?
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Extend Volume Group for PE
I'm trying to extend a volume group in CentOS and it's being mean.
I've tried for about two hours... no luck.
Anyway, I need to extend VolGroup00 so it's not reporting 0 free PE. There's definitely ...
