Awesome Tips Your Hard Drive Could be DYING. Here's How to Check!
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Your storage device WILL eventually fail. But what if you knew the signs to look for ahead of time so you could react appropriately and save your data?
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5:45 Used HDDs
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I had a strange thing with my external WD 2TB that put my guard up. When I tried using a USB extender it would make a clicking when it would try to spin up, didn't show in the PC but when I hooked it up to its original home on the USB hub its fine again. I thought maybe the USB extender might not be sending enough power or something like that, I duno but now I kinda want to back it up on another external.
writing every byte of my hard drive on paper for backup in case it fails
I frequently destroy my data on a whim. My backup plan is good enough I don't even have to care. System a bit outdated, bloated, or ran suspicious software? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdX bs=1G count=1 and then re-install.
Every home should have a urBackup server and then also use offsite backups as well.
I just now discovered that one of my 1TB HDDs has been in the process of failing for 2 months after seeing several critical errors in Event Viewer, I am now in the process of migrating my data to another drive. I avoided an absolute catastrophe thanks to this video. Absolute W
My hard drive suddenly stopped my pc from booting and made my pc freezing but it didn't have windows the windows was on my ssd
Also the hard drive didn't sound any weird it sounded so healthy
I tried to clean the board of the hdd but nothing opened the hdd to see if the hand thing stuck or anything and it wasn't so at this point I don't know what is wrong with it
What I was wondering; there are a lot of tools which indicate problems if you do a manual testrun out there. But are there any offline but automated tools available who do it for you regularly? I am aware of some (enterprise-oriented and centralized) solutions who monitor hardware errors. But what I did not find yet is a standalone tool which you can install on your win-system to monitor HDD-errors in an automated way. (Same goes for Linux imho……)
My baracuda 1tb i think has died it wont show up in diskmanagar and it has threw write faults in steam
I have decided to just no longer use HDD as the main storage for Windows, I use a cheap SSD for it, and will not go back
Gotta love how my 4 year old SanDisk SSD died and my 8 year old HDD still has 85% health
How about SSDs? A video about care, troubleshooting and signs of failing would be nice.
Ive just checked and mine has a power on hours of over 7 years not bad
My HDD is 6 years old and throws me 100% Disc use, does that mean it’s dieing?
I remember having a 1tb usb 3.0 WD hard drive as Christmas gift and after a week I just close my laptop to do something else outside my house and when I came back the drive was dead, I was so sad because I already moved games and family photos to that hard drive
Title: Your Hard drive could be dying? Here’s how to tell
Me: hard drive doesn’t exist I don’t even have a Desktop PC 🥲🥲🥲
its really cool you guys are still doing things on hdd. after filling my ssds, i went back to cmr hdds really big ones and love them, now i use primocache with my hdd and ssds. i have 6 hdds, all cmr, and several ssds to use as cache, it works extremely well i cant buy a 10tb ssd, but i can use primocache, with an exos to run things amazingly well. please do anouther vid on primocache and hdds. we still exist! im still going to get them for the forseeable future, and when mach 2 hdds release ill get those to use with my ssds. for movies and games it works great!
Now one with SSD
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Im fairly used to losing everything when HDD’s fail.
Though since the last one failed and i decided to check the health on the rest i went though a project to get a full raid setup so I actually have some redundancy now for the first time.
Its only raid 5 though as I didn’t want to lose too much capacity. No failures so far so the main benefit is not having a half dozen different drives just for game installs.
Though I probably should of replaced my C drive when I recently reformatted my pc it’s probably well over its normsl lifespan not helped by the times things like trendmicro having its Logging bug that had it essentially write at 100% 24/7 for a fair while before i both detected it and managed to fix it.
I got the drive sometime like 2015 and my pc is on 24/7 with no sleep/powersaving settings on. “They always seem to ultimately bug out”.
Not only did my drive die it Self-destruct the readers broke off and the handles were digging in the most the platters
I average like 10 years out of my hard drives ,and out of dozens, only one ever failed suddenly. The others I just replaced because the error count was getting high and it was performing poorly. For my desktop, about 40tb (JBOD), but my home server (12 HDDs, 4tb each) can be hot-swapped and it's ZFS. It is so nice, up to 4 hard drives can fail before I start risking data loss and the speed is about 1.5gbps despite being SATA
In 2014 i bought this 8tb hdd for a fair price, and it is still 100% healthy.
Nowadays, almost a decade later, why don't we commonly have 20tb or more of pcie or sata ssds?
I want a 20tb ssd in my console, another in my computer, etc, but it is simply not possible. Also 2tb microSD for switch…
you start talking about ebay bought drives then somehow were describing buying used drives from someone at their own home? Come on thats not a realistic scenario for more than a couple people.
Thank you by telling me about crystal disc info you helped me save half of my data from failing with that device but it’s safe now because I’m trans ported it to my other healthy disc thanks so much
what a guy!
You can't lose data in cloud storage because it was never yours to start with.
I bought two 2tb drives from my local recycling center for $10 6 years ago. They are still running today 🤘
its not relevant as we have SSDs!