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How to connect Linux to a HDD that has been “security locked”
In the process of playing around with several hard-drives, and hdparm's --security-set-pass and --security-erase options, I have a pile of HDDs that are in a "locked" state and I cannot unlock them.
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Windows 8 boots very slowly and can't navigate to second SATA HDD, no problems without drive connected
I have Windows 8 installed on a GTP formatted 120 GB SSD, and it runs the OS fine with just that. Connecting my old MBR formatted 320 GB HDD as well shows in the BIOS, but Windows 8 will not load its ...
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SATA HD low sequential read speed
I use an old P4 desktop as my home file server. Since the MB only has IDE, I use a SIL3114 controller to connect 3 SATA HDDs. Running Crystal DiskMark I get very strange results! Two of the drives (C: ...
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How designate internal SATA drive as “removable”?
I have two spinning internal data disks that I seldom use and would like to leave them turned off and not spinning much of the time.
I want to "safely remove" a normal SATA internal hard drives ...
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SATA2 disk detected as SATA
I have 2 Hitachi Deskstar HDS728080PLA380 Drives, with SATA2 (3.0Gbs interface), that are only detected as SATA1 (1.5Gbs) by both Intel Rapid Storage Manager and other similar software in Windows 8. ...
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Do seagate 3 TB hard disk need special setup before usage?
Is it mandatory to install special seagate drivers
http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/beyond-2tb/
if you use a 3 TB SATA disk over external eSATA expressCard Adapter?
I have an old and a new ...
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Why would you need to slow a SATA II hard drive?
I was going over some of my older drives and found a Seagate SATA drive that had a jumper inserted for 1.5Gb/s mode. I pulled the jumper and low an behold, it is a SATA II drive.
Why would this be an ...
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How to connect multiple HDDs to a computer?
What is the best and most efficient way to connect 10 - 20 SATA HDDs to a home computer? I mean an ordinary motherboard supporting 2 connections for SATA HDDs.
The purpose of this assembly is to ...
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Windows installation detectes hard drive, but bios does not
Some days ago my computer started to be unstable. It only started when "he wanted".
Today it stopped to initialize and BIOS can't recognize my sata hard-drives.
When I load Windows 7 installation, I ...
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AHCI driver installed but XP32 SP3 won't recognize it - only IDE
I want to get my existing XP32 installation to switch from accessing the primary active SATA drive via AHCI instead of IDE. XP32 was originally installed via IDE.
I downloaded the appropriate ...
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Broken hard drive
I have a tower PC that recently had a boot error stating that the hard drive could not be read. When the computer starts up, you can hear the hard drive spinning up normally, just as it had in the ...
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Is CHKDSK a warning sign of failing drive?
This morning CHKDSK ran on its own during boot. It scanned 1 out of 3 HDDs in my PC. Is it a warning sign that that particular HDD is about die?
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SATA3 6Gb/s HDD vs SSD [closed]
So I know a SATA3 handles a maximum speed of about 750MB. But when comparing this HDD and this SSD, what would be the difference in terms of read/write speed. Won't they both be using the SATA3 busing ...
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What is meant by “Single Driver Per channel”? SATA
In the following context SATA only supports a single driver per channel?
What is a channel?
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What is the exact capacity of 1000GB HDD?
1 GiB = 1024 * 1024 * 1024 bytes
1 GB = 1000 * 1000 * 1000 bytes
That is easy!
I don't want to talk about this!
I have laptop which should have (according to seller) 1000 GB. That is 1000 000 000 ...
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How can I install a desktop 3.5" SATA drive on a laptop without any adapters and use it as the main(system) drive?
I am pretty sure I'm the first human in the whole universe and multiverses. Here it is...
like an idiot I bought a 3.5" SATA drive for my laptop. I used it to install the OS through USB but I got the ...
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Stress testing all SATA links
I have a few servers. Each has 9 backplanes, and each backplane has 5 hard drives. Once in a while, one of the cables connecting a backplane to the motherboard (actually a pci card on the motherboard) ...
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Hang during reboot
I've recently installed a second HDD bay in my laptop, but now, every time I issue a reboot, the computer hangs for about 1m30s (completely freezes on a black screen, with the fans at the maximum ...
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SAS 15,000rpm RAID 0 slower than external eSATA single 7200rpm drive. Why?
I've got two internal 135GB SAS drives in a RAID 0 array making a 270GB logical volume talking to my Dell Precission T5500 motherboard via a Dell supplied SAS 6iR controller.
Writing Speed
I SaveAs ...
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Is standby mode healthy for a HDD?
I've recently bought an SSD and replaced my laptop's DVD drive space with the stock HDD, so that I cound install the SSD on the HDD port. However, I've noticed that the HDD is now sometimes going into ...
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Why is my hard drive so slow? Is this normal?
I just built a complete new computer including a motherboard with SATA 3 ports and a brand new 2 TB harddrive 7200RPM, 64mb cache, and Sata 3 capable.
I'm working with some large files and its taking ...
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Connect 4 TB HDD to Intel Q57 Express onboard SATA-II port
I'd like to replace my current data hard disk (SATA-II, 2.0 TB) with a new, bigger one. I considered going for a new 4 TB drive by Hitachi (SATA-III).
But I'm not sure, if I can use it with my "old" ...
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Desktop won't boot with two drives
I am trying to startup the computer with two drives; one is connected with SATA(Windows XP, 40G) and the other with IDE(blank, 80G). With just the SATA drive, it boots fine, but when I add the other ...
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3TB Seagate Barracuda causing freezing
Hi I have bought a brand new 3TB Seagate hard drive. I tried to copy data from my older hard drives to the new one, but it always stops copying selected data set after some time and the file manager ...
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Hard drives not recognized on Windows 8 unless entering BIOS first [closed]
I've built a new computer. My old computer had two SATA 3GB drives:
1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 (ST31000340AS)
750 GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 (ST3750640AS)
The new computer uses an OCZ Vertex ...
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SATA 6Gb/s vs. 3Gb/s when using SSD Caching via Intel RST?
Background / Setup
I have a desktop that I built (Full Specs here if you need them for reference).
It currently utilizes 2x1TB drives (SATA 6.0 Gb/s) in a RAID1 configuration.
I use Intel RST to use ...
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Is it possible to make a disk-to-disk clone via USB?
I have an internal laptop HDD which I wish to copy to another SATA HDD.
There is no spare storage for storing an image, so I wish to make a direct disk-to-disk clone.
I have connected the destination ...
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Avoid HDD spinup at boot
Is there any way to avoid specific HDDs from spinning up at boot time?
There are 3 HDDs in my HTPC (Ubuntu 12.10) and 1 SSD (boot drive). I don't want the HDDs to spin up when booting to reduce boot ...
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What software to use to recover data from Samsung HD103UJ HDD?
I have a Samsung HD103UJ 1TB SATA HDD which is malfunctioning, but not a complete brick.
If I try to boot off it, the boot takes forever and there is slow ticking sound.
If I hot-plug it into a ...
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Different hard drive terminologies? [closed]
I have come across terms like SATA, SCSI and SSD. Can somebody please elaborate the differences between these terms based on their technology and more importantly applications and industry trends?
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Computer won't recognize second WD internal HD [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 won’t show SATA Hard Drive in My Computer
I installed a Western Digital Caviar Green 1TB internal hard drive, and want to use it for back up. My BIOS ...
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Do 7.2k SATA drives and a hardware raid controller always end with trouble?
I'm reading the FreeNAS userguide and came across the statement:
Note that hardware RAID configured as JBOD may still detach disks that
do not respond in time; and as such may require ...
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SATA HDD suddenly stops being detected by any computer
So I have a 500gb Seagate HDD that, after powering down my computer one day, stopped being read by ANYTHING. It's not a mechanical error that I could diagnose; it spins up and down quietly and makes ...
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How can I add a second hard drive to a previously configured UEFI/ACHI Windows 8 machine?
Recently purchased a new Windows 8 PC.
It came with one hard drive.
I want to a second hard drive to it. This second hard drive is my data hard drive from my previous computer.
However, I have run ...
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Issue adding second SATA hard drive to Inspiron 660/Win 8 Pro [closed]
I just purchased a Dell Inspiron 660 with Windows 8 Pro.
I added a second hard drive to the machine. This drive contains all my data (files, music, pictures, etc.)
The boot drive is plugged into ...
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Should I jumper my 6gb/s HDD to 3gb for raid-0?
I have 2x 2TB WDC green drives, but one is a 3g sata.
With a jumper I can turn it to 3 to make them more "even" but does it matter with Fakeraids?
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Harddrive disconnects when I try to write on it
One of the four internal harddrives (SATA) of my computer is causing me some trouble.
This drive only have one NTFS partition. Everytime I try to copy a file on it, the copy eventually fails after a ...
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3TB WD30EZRX is only recognized as an 1.8TB Disk - GPT formatted, UEFI-System - what can I do?
Searched through the net for about 3h now, tested anything that seemed promising - but still no 3TB! And I don't mean no 3TB partition - the drive is actually detected as 1.8TB by various programs!
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Windows 8 Installation doesn't detect my SATA Maxtor 6V250F0 HDD
I've been using Ubuntu on a desktop computer I have in my house and I'd like to try to install Windows 8 and replace the Ubuntu system.
In the installation wizard of Windows 8 I get stuck in the ...
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How do I connect a bunch of laptop hard disks to make a “super” storage disk?
So we have a about 25 laptop hard disks lying around (when we get new laptops, we replace the hard disks with SSDs). What is the best way to use these? Ideally, I'd like to build some kind of disk ...
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Multi-Harddrive Tower, Do I have to Worry about Overheating
I have been thinking of getting a third hard drive. Right now I have two already in my tower. The HDDs have a small compact separate 3-space bay in the bottom front of the tower.
In general, should I ...
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SATA Hard Drives coming up in Computer Management but no drive letter assigned
I have a bunch of old SATA hard drives which I am gathering data from using a standard SATA USB Enclosure. Everything works well except with two drives (500GB each) that I took out from my NAS (D-Link ...
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Solution for storing sata drives outside of case
I have a system that has 8 sata disks in a software raid 5 array using mdadm. My issue is that I want to move the drives from inside of the computer case in order to cool more efficiently. I have ...
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Motherboard: Intel S5520HCR s1366 SSI EEB
I'm building a storage server for online video streaming. I thought about adding two SSD drive for a OS. other 15*(12 SATA & 3 SSD) drives i want to build with aufs XFS and ethernet 4GB/sec ...
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Could SATA communication issues cause the hard drive to reallocate sectors (thus causing system hangs or crashes)?
My laptop seems to have a bizarre problem with the hard drive. The system operates without problems for several months, then the hard drive begins to cause problems, with sector reallocations causing ...
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Any non-SSD hard drives get Sata 3 speeds? [closed]
Are there any non-SSD hard drives whose speed gets close to taking advantage of sata 3?
I ask because I am looking to buy a secondary 1 TB (non-SSD) hard drive for my new computer that will be ...
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quickly skipping SATA media errors
I had a head crash on a SATA HDD. Zillions of blocks are damaged, and I try to save the contents to another HDD using ddrescue on a GNU/Linux rescue system booted from a DVD.
The very problem is ...
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Sata port being reset every minute. Is it a faulty cable or the Port Multiplier Card (Silicon Image)?
My Ubuntu server has nine Silicon Image powered "5-to-1 Sata Port Multiplier" cards. I am getting the following messages in the syslog. These messages are being repeated every minute or so. From what ...
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Can I install a SATA 6 Gb/s SSD on a laptop that came with a SATA 1.5 Gb/s hard drive?
I am having a ASUS F8Vr laptop. It has a 250GB SATA I HDD. I am planing of changing it to a SSD HDD, may b Corsair Force Series GS CSSD-F360GBGS-BK. Not decided yet. Can I do this?
I know the ...
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Installed second hard drive in computer and get BSOD with stop 0x00007b
I have a computer with a Intel DH55HC MB.
It has eSata on the MB ports that work with SATA drives.
Anyway I installed a second 1tb drive and reset the boot order. Windows starts and gets a BSOD with ...
