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What is the quickest way to tell whether a SATA cable is bad?
To check whether a SATA cable is bad, currently I'd run a disk benchmark and look at the SMART attribute "UltraDMD CRC Error Count." However, that attribute seems to be a rolling average and may not ...
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good application to detect drive failures
Right now, i've got a machine with several drives in it, of various size/make, in various configurations. I'm running Windows 2008R2 server.
Every once in a while, i will hear one of the drives ...
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Mac Mini drive problems but SMART verified: bad hard drive or controller?
I have a 3-year-old Intel Mac Mini (EDIT: pretty sure it's the 1.66 GHz Core Duo T2300) at home. About a month ago, it stopped booting from the hard drive (internal, SATA, 80GB). I tried booting ...
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S.M.A.R.T. Hard drive failure test?
I'm working on my mom's computer and she freaked because it told her "There was an imminent hard drive failure about to occurr." I did some digging and found it was related to the S.M.A.R.T. ...
