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hard drive raw read error rate 9
My main HDD is about 2.5/3 years old. All that time, it has been running with about 40-45 (temperature).
I have had a HDD failure before and it was really frustrating, I don't want that to happen ...
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Why SMART is passing while it indicates failure for RAW read error rate?
I have an external USB disk (WD Elements Caviar Green 2 To, WD20EADS-00W4B0) that started to fail (slow reads). My system logs didn't show anything unusual, this definitely indicates some supposedly ...
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How do software programs determine the HDD temperature?
I had an argue with a colleague about :
"How do software programs (i.e. hwmonitor) determine the temperature of the hard drive?"
I said that there must be a thermometer inside the HDD and the ...
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WD HDD in endless power-cycling
My WD Red WD20EFRX making trouble again. Some weeks ago, I already had some problems with it and since it only works when directly plugged via USB without any interfering Hubs.
Yesterday my Mac ...
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WDC Green WD20EZRX IntelliPark and number of platters [closed]
Is there a reliable way to tell by looking at drive serial number other codes to determine whether this drive (2TB version, WD20EZRX) has 2 x 1TB platters instead of 3 x 667GB platters? I would ...
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WD RED - are HDD's designed for NAS another hype? [closed]
When I assembled my current system two years ago, I bought a Crucial M4 128 GB SSD, which was truly worth its price and I bought a Samsung EcoGreen 2 TB HDD, primarily for storing large media data ...
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what is the difference between WD Green and WD Caviar Green when replacing a drive?
I need to replace a disk in a MyBook world Edition and it says to only use caviar green yet when
I search for caviar green newegg comes back with just Green with caviar in the description I already ...
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How to make smartd shut up about one particular offline uncorrectable sector?
I have a disk in a two-disk software RAID-1 for which recently an "offline uncorrectable sector" appeared in the SMART status.
198 Offline_Uncorrectable 0x0030 200 200 000 Old_age ...
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WD “Green” HD causes few-seconds lockups after wake from sleep - how to disable auto-shutdown?
My desktop has a non-OS drive D: 2000MB WD Green (model WD20EARS-00MVWB0, firmware version 51.0AB51).
After the computer boots / wakes from sleep, in the first time I access D: drive, the program ...
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External Hard drive not accessible [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Recover harddrive data
I've got a WD 500GB external hard drive. I've been using it for over a year now but suddenly ran into this problem where neither Windows 7, nor ...
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Load/Unload Cycle of a Hard Drive
Hard Drive Information:
Make: Western Digital
Model Number: WD5000BPKT
What the non-computer-fellas call it: Western Digital Scorpio Black
Age: About 2 to 3 months old.
Power On Hours: 127 ...
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Western Digitial My Book: Can't access the data on the drive
My girlfriend has this external hard drive by Western Digital called a My Book.
When the external drive is connected, it does not show it as an accessible disk drive on the computer. However, it ...
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Used HDD/ran DiskSmartView/40,000 Power-on-hours?? should i trust it w/ my data, or take it back and bitch? [closed]
I just bought a used hard drive from a University Surplus Store. Decided to run DiskSmartView to make sure it wasn't ready to fail. 40,000 power-on-hours
I don't know if I feel like trusting my ...
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Repair BAD Sectors or Buy a new HDD? [closed]
I have a Seagate internal hard disk drive. I recently opened up my laptop [Dell Inspiron N5010] [Warranty has expired], cleaned it and it worked normally after waking up from hibernation. However, ...
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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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WD Caviar Green Extremely Slow
I am encountering a really weird problem on my WD Caviar Green HDD. Well first of all I have 2 HDDs on my Desktop, one 160GB Seagate holding my Win7 Ultimate x64 and the problematic one, WD 1.5 Caviar ...
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How to see whether my HDD is “advanced format”-capable and if yes, what to modify?
I have a WDC WD5001AALS-00L3B2-type hard disk drive: Western Digital Caviar Black, 500 GB SATA-2 with 32MiB cache.
I have came across this Advanced Format, and I am not entirely sure whether my hard ...
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Mac Finder: WD My Passport won't mount
I really need your help. I have a WD My Passport 650GB (with Firewire and USB).
I'm using it for almost a year now and it always worked fine. While underway I simply plug it in via Firewire - at home ...
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Reading SMART Data - possible drive failure?
First time trying to make heads and tails out of this. I just wonder if the drive is bad on this server? Just things seem so slow when compiling and running simple tasks(things hang). Like the load ...
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WD Disk. Boot disk for patching bad sectors?
Is there an ideal boot disk that can be used to patch bad sectors on a drive from a live USB stick? Have feeling this drive is messing up and want to patch it before things get worse on them.
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Western Digital external drive issues
I recently bought an external drive from Western Digital, a My Passport Essential se 1TB drive; the smartware software continually says "discovering" and does not stop. On Windows, the operating ...
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Western digital HD WD5000AAJS keeps suspending
I have a 500Gb Western Digital HD WD5000AAJS (ZZYFA0) which keeps to suspend very frequently.
When I access it after a couple of minutes I need to wait for it to spin up again.
I'm using Win7 ...
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What are these folders created on my Western Digital 2TB Mirror? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows Updates Folders (With Strange Names) in C drive
On my external hard drive "Western Digital My Book Mirror Edition 2TB USB 2.0 (WDH2U20000N)", there are lots of ...
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How can I break or get around the encryption on my WD My Book Essential (Smartware)?
I have a WD Western Digital My Book Essential 1TB Hard Drive which comes with WD Smartware software. I had put a password in it without a hint and now I have lost the password. This hard drive use 256 ...
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WD “My Book Studio” 2TB - rpm? [closed]
The rpm rating of this drive doesn't seem to be listed anywhere. Not on the box, not in the manual, not online, not even on Western Digital's website. I even called them but they were evasive, ...
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WD Velociraptor with no heat sink/mounting bracket
I've been considering a Mac Mini or other small form-factor computer for some lightweight server/tinkering with HPC related tasks. There's some benefit to having a faster drive in the system, but most ...
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My hard drive is slow and just gets slower during copy processes
Today I purchased a brand new backup hard drive (2tb Western Digital Elements, USB 2.0) and when I copy files to it from my laptop (Toshiba Satellite l300 with 7200rpm Western Digital Black 500GB HDD) ...
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Bootable Clone Hard Disk Drive Utility [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I easily copy or clone a Windows boot partition onto a new hard drive?
My computer's 1TB hard drive failed not too long ago and I got a replacement from Western ...
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WD20EARS 2TB Compatibility Issues
I have a system that runs the Asus P5Q Pro mother board and I recently added the 2TB WD Green HDD (WD20EARS). I formatted it NTFS with MBR. The system has been running for a week now without any ...
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WD S.M.A.R.T errors - can claim RMA?
Last time I replaced another WD HDD, because of Re-allocated Sector Count, which I guess means bad sector. This time I have 2 other WD drives and HD Tune software shows warnings on Re-allocated Sector ...
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Hard drive, CPU, or other issue?
It seems my computer has crashed but not sure what the problem is. I have an HP Pavillion p6310f with Windows 7 home edition. I bought it less than 2 years ago. 6GB RAM, 1TB Western Digital (green ...
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Why do I have to “align” the partitions on my new Western Digital hard drive?
I just got a new 1 TB hard drive (WD10EARS) and it says if I want to use more than 1 large partition I must download the Acronis WD Align software to "align" the partitions. I tried just creating the ...
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Windows 7 setup doesn't see hard drive
I have a blank hard drive which I am trying to install Windows 7 on.
The BIOS can see the drive is connected but when I go through the Windows setup it doesn't detect the drive.
If I load my other ...
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My Book Essential 3.0 RPM
I just bought a WD My Book Essential 3.0 with 1TB and USB 3.0. The code for the product is WDBACW0010HBK.
How can I find out what RPM it has? There is no mention in the manual and the official site ...
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How to disable S.M.A.R.T. warnings at computer startup?
My computer recently presented me with a possibility that my hard drive is about to fail. On further investigation I found out that it was a S.M.A.R.T. status failure. I've got a WD hard drive, so I ...
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WD My Book on Windows 7 disappears after a certain amount of time
Recently (<2 weeks) bought a WD My Book 2TB USB3 external HDD. After a seemingly random amount of time, when not in use, the drive will disappear.
I have checked under computer management -> disk ...
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Hard-Drive Health Analysis - Western Digital Hard Drive (7200RPM, 320GB)
What is the best tool for determining the health of an internal hard drive? I have a Western Digital 320GB at 7200 RPM. The OS currently installed on it (a fresh install) is Windows 7 Professional ...
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3½" PATA Western Digital Caviar SE (250MB) makes steady ticking sound when idle
I've started to notice a ticking sound emanating from my WD2500JB. It is not alarmingly loud. The sound seems to occur only when the drive has been idle for some time, and will cease upon (some?) ...
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repair/recovery tool for Western Digital Elements (1TB)
My Hard Disk Drive just got corrupted due to electricity fluctuation. When I plug my Western Digital Elements, It ask me if I want to format it or not... I can't see my files or even the capacity of ...
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What do I need to know to replace the PCB of my WD Caviar Green Hard Drive?
I have a dead 1.5 TB WD Caviar Green hard drive that I'd like to try to fix by replacing the drive's PCB.
The drive was housed in an external enclosure. After a power cycle, neither the drive nor ...
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Western Digital hard drive now freezes my BIOS when loading the video card?
After I have successively and successfully installed 3 Windows XP's on the same partition (Don't ask why...), I restarted my computer again and the BIOS just froze when it loaded the video card.
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Why are most of 2TB hard disks released 5400 RPM?
Most of 1TB Hard disks run as 7200 RPM recently.
But why 2TB is not? Few disks have a 7200 rpm specification.
Is there a technical reason?
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Western Digital 1TB SATAII 64MB freezes or slows down my PC
My new PC frequently freezes every few seconds, or goes slow. Performance is under the typical speed. I'm sure this is not related to an infection after writing on Tom's Hardware Italy. Some kind ...
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Windows 7 Can't see harddrive, but Device Manager does…?
I just upgraded to Windows 7.
I have an old western Digital Hard drive that is 120GB's of Data. I have everything that my life holds digitally dear on it. I can't find the Driver for it on Western ...
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A little issue with a RAID setup
I have a Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II 2TB external hard disk drive. Internally, it has two 1TB drives configured in a RAID setup. I recently purchased a Drobo and no longer want to use ...
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2Tb HDD that doesn't have Load_Cycle_Count problem
I'm looking to get a qnap NAS and am looking for a couple of 2TB drives to put in it. I thought the decision would easy as the WD green WD15EARS looked rather good for the price but after a bit of ...
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WD External Drive, want to use a differnt hard drive in it
I have a WD MyBook 1TB external drive. I recently put the hard drive in my desktop and wanted to use the enclosure with other hard drives. I tried this and get driver errors.
I am using Windows 7 Pro ...
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How to properly install WD Advanced Format Drive in Ubuntu as 2nd HDD?
I got a new Western Digital WD15EARS Caviar Green 1.5TB SATA drive but it seems to use WD new advanced format using 4k blocks or something (I get the general idea but not really).
Is there a way to ...
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How to re-do the hard disks in a WD Word Book Edition II?
I recently purchased a WD World Book II, a 2 TB one. I call it the "White Box". It has those 2 1TB drives, and they were in this RAID 1 config, only giving me about 1 TB. I could not delete the raid ...
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Can I set up a raid array where I have multiple small drives that back up to one large drive?
I want to know if I can set up a raid of like 150 gb velociraptors for performance and then make it to where they automatically back up to a larger say 2tb western digital caviar black drive? let me ...
