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How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD?

It will not affect performance either way. Even with a faster 7200RPM HDD, your actual write speeds will be capped around 120 MB/s. WD Black (faster models) are marketed with only Transfer Rate up to ...
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Why is my WD HDD making a curious sound?

That drive is poked. From the sounds of it the drive it sounds to me like it is continually hitting the head against the "stop" on the outside of the drive (for the first 2 seconds), and it ...
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How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD?

How can I use the full 6 Gbit/s mode on my SATA HDD? You can't while the drive is in this enclosure, but it almost certainly doesn't matter. There are no hard drives that can achieve even SATA 1 (~...
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Should I be worried about my SMART values of my drive?

Yes, if any of the bad sector counters (including pending, reallocated) in the SMART data of a hard disk drive are nonzero, it means the drive is dying, the error rate will only snowball (grow at an ...
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice

4948 reallocated sectors would be plenty reason for me to replace the drive. As you can read others may have different opinions. Which kind of shows the difficulty in answering this type of questions, ...
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REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT 4948. Request for advice

I'd say most modern drives have some bad sectors and its a 'pre failure' issue. You probably need to/want to look at your pending reallocation count, and any number other than zero there is a bad ...
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Can a 3.5" hard drive use USB-C as its only power input?

It is possible to make your own. I did! You will need a computer capable of supplying enough current. I would suggest 2A as the minimum, ideally 3A. I started with an iDsonix 3.5" SATA drive ...
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