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Is Seagate into the data selling "business" ? by
Shadow[_2_]
Bought a 2 TB hard drive. Cloned my offline HD to it, containing all
my personal data. Films, photos, passwords, diary, bank details,
receipts etc. No illegal stuff, just data I don't want to share with
the world. Everyone needs a backup, right ?
Two months later it makes a fizzling sound and I get...
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"Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Hard Drive Stats for Q2 2018"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q2-2018/
"As of June 30, 2018 we had 100,254 spinning hard drives in Backblaze’s
data centers. Of that number, there were 1,989 boot drives and 98,265
data drives. This review looks at the quarterly and...
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5.25" floppy drive to IDE to USB? by
Anthony K.
Is it possible to get a vintage 5.25" PC floppy drive connected to a
modern PC with no floppy controller and just USB/FireWire inputs? Do IDE
5.25" floppy drives exist? If so, I could drop one into a USB enclosure.
Is there an adapter that would let me connect a floppy drive to an IDE...
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Disposing of a hard drive. by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
On 6/15/2018 11:47 AM, Bill Ward wrote:
Most hard drives seem quite indestructible. What is the best method of
disposal ? I do live on the coast with some 500ft high cliffs nearby.
Bill.
I hammer a screwdriver into the vent hole. Any contact with a platter
destroys the drive.
Lynn
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claimed SCSI (parallel) speeds by
[email protected]
Looking online for SCSI host bus adapters, I saw one supposed to
Ultra 160, but is a PCI card (limit 133 megs)
So maybe okay for disks, but if you tried an LTO-5 tape drive,
ahem would it not flounder?
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BenQ FuQ ! by
[email protected]
The 2018 award for biggest piece of junk in the history of electronics goes to
BenQ !!!
For producing one of the most useless garbage cd/dvd rom reader/writer drives I have ever seen !
1. First the drive started to fail to open and close.
2. Now it completely blocks the drive. Even pulling or...
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"The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"The Helium Factor and Hard Drive Failure Rates"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/helium-filled-hard-drive-failure-rates/
"In November 2013, the first commercially available helium-filled hard
drive was introduced by HGST, a Western Digital subsidiary. The 6 TB
drive was not only unique in...
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I think I've solved my Spin Retry Count problem by
Yousuf Khan[_2_]
I have stated previously that I have an older drive that seems to get a
lot of Spin Retry Counts in SMART, but other than that it's rock solid:
it has outlasted a whole bunch of newer drives that were previously
giving no error messages whatsoever in SMART. Well, it looks like I've
now also...
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hardware questions by
Linea Recta[_2_]
This is about the phone Samsung Galaxy S4 mini.
I got it second hand.
It came with a small mains plug shaped adaptor which connects to the phone
with a USB cable.
This cable has a "normal" USB plug on one side and a mini plug on the other
side.
This cable is very short.
I have a longer cable with...
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“Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018” by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
“Hard Drive Stats for Q1 2018”
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-q1-2018/
“As of March 31, 2018 we had 100,110 spinning hard drives. Of that
number, there were 1,922 boot drives and 98,188 data drives. This review
looks at the quarterly and lifetime statistics for the...
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In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31 by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
In celebration of World Backup Day, March 31, I will be changing our
next to last 4 TB internal backup hard drive for a 8 TB hard drive
stripped from an external USB drive.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/world-backup-day-2018-backing-up-the-world/
I ordered another WD 8 TB external USB drive...
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why be mobile "performance" HDD smaller capacity? by
[email protected]
I had a laptop with 2 WD Scorpio Black drives, and it seemed quite
impressive. That was only 750 GB. Seagate's rival Barracuda Pro goes
up to 1000 GB. Whereas a plain 2.5 inch drive goes up to a 2 TB
from WD, and a fat 5 TB from Seagate.
What is compromised to get the speed?
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"Nimbus Data's 100TB ExaDrive Is the World's Largest SSD" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Nimbus Data's 100TB ExaDrive Is the World's Largest SSD"
https://www.pcmag.com/news/359941/nimbus-datas-100tb-exadrive-is-the-worlds-largest-ssd
"A company called Nimbus Data just unveiled what it's calling the
"world's largest solid state drive" – the ExaDrive DC100, which offers
100TB of...
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Do you stress test your new drives? by
Ant
Just wondering. My friend does. I wonder if I should do that too.
Thank you in advance. :)
--
Quote of the Week: "Ants never sleep." --Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet
Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly.
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LAN backups by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
Speaking of LAN backups, our office LAN backup is at 4 TB and growing at
100 GB a month. I still use three internal backup drives, two are WD 4
TB green drives and one is a WD 8 TB white drive ripped out of an
external drive. The 4 TB drives only have 200 GB of free space and have
been...
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"HDD vs SSD: What Does the Future for Storage Hold? — Part 2" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"HDD vs SSD: What Does the Future for Storage Hold? — Part 2"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hdd-vs-ssd-in-data-centers/
"Western Digital claims that its competing microwave-assisted magnetic
recording (MAMR) could enable drive capacity to increase up to 40TB by
the year 2025."
Lynn
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"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2017"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017/
"At the end of Q4 2017 Backblaze was monitoring 91,305 hard drives used
to store data."
Yup, I'll be staying with WDC for the 5 to 10 spinning drives that I buy
each year.
Lynn
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