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So many online reviews are a mess by
Percival P. Cassidy
It's occurred to me that now, with such vendors as Amazon and NewEgg
listing items that are actually sold by other vendors, it's impossible
to be sure to what items a review is referring: is the review of a
brand-new item, a used item, an open-box item, or a used but
refurbished/renewed item?...
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(Un)Reliable vendors of "renewed/"refurbished" drives? by
Percival P. Cassidy
I'm considering buying some "renewed/"refurbished" drives -- typically
"enterprise" models that presumably have been replaced according to a
"just in case" schedule.
Are there vendors of such drives with particularly good or particularly
bad reputations?
Perce
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My latest Seagate HDD longevity report by
Percival P. Cassidy
An ST2000DM001 that has clocked up a smidgeon under 5 years (3 years
longer than its warranty) of 24/7/365 operation in my FreeNAS machine
has just reported 2968 unreadable sectors.
It has been replaced by an ST2000DM006.
Perce
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"These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"These Aren’t Your Ordinary Data Centers"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/these-arent-your-ordinary-data-centers/
Heh. I like the one in a church.
Lynn
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“Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018” by
Percival P. Cassidy
On 1/25/19 4:22 PM, I wrote:
“Backblaze Hard Drive Stats for 2018”
*** https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2018/
“As of December 31, 2018, we had 106,919 spinning hard drives. Of
that number, there were 1,965 boot drives and 104,954 data drives.
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"PC Makers: We Need to Talk About the Boot Drive" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"PC Makers: We Need to Talk About the Boot Drive"
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/boot_drive-frustrations,38555.html
"Boot drives rarely get the attention they deserve. The type and
capacity of your C: drive significantly affects how fast your system
boots, how quickly your programs load,...
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Fast way to wipe an external HDD? by
Kirk Bubul[_2_]
I have recently acquired 2 new WD My Passport 4 TB external hard
drives. I really like their small size, different colors, and
the fact that they get their power from the USB 3.0 cable plugged
into the USB port on my desktop - no separate power cord and
little brick to crawl around plugging into...
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SMART Self-test duplicate logs? by
Tom Del Rosso[_6_]
This drive does a long test every 2 weeks or 336 hours, but why does a
test sometimes get logged more than once?
Model Family: Hitachi Travelstar 5K320
Device Model: Hitachi HTS543216L9SA00
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
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"Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2018: Less is More" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Hard Drive Stats for Q3 2018: Less is More"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/2018-hard-drive-failire-rates/
"As of September 30, 2018 Backblaze had 99,636 spinning hard drives. Of
that number, there were 1,866 boot drives and 97,770 data drives. This
review looks at the quarterly and...
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"Hard Disk Drive (HDD) vs Solid State Drive (SSD): What’s the Diff?" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Hard Disk Drive (HDD) vs Solid State Drive (SSD): What’s the Diff?"
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hdd-versus-ssd-whats-the-diff/
"If you’re still using a computer with a SATA hard drive, you can see a
huge performance increase by switching to an SSD. What’s more, the cost
of SSDs has...
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"Seagate Announces 14TB Barracuda Pro, IronWolf, And IronWolf Pro" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Seagate Announces 14TB Barracuda Pro, IronWolf, And IronWolf Pro"
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/seagate-14tb-hdd-ironwolf-barracuda-pro,37768.html
"Seagate's 14TB drives use standard PMR (Perpendicular Magnetic
Recording), which has been the industry's recording technology of choice
for...
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using SAS SSD - what's best config? by
[email protected]
I notice with SAS backplanes, you typically have a cage for 6 drives on one
side, and two 4-lane cables on the other. So it is sharing bandwith.
Maybe suffices for spinning rust, but would this be a problem with SSD?
Or should one instead go for a huge drive, such as Seagate Nytro 15 TB?
they...
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"Intel's first 'ruler' SSD holds 32TB" by
Lynn McGuire[_3_]
"Intel's first 'ruler' SSD holds 32TB"
https://www.engadget.com/2018/08/10/intels-first-ruler-ssd-holds-32tb/
Good night !
I note that the cost is not stated.
Lynn
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Mix SAS and SATA drives? by
Percival P. Cassidy
This is now an academic question, since the SAS drive that seemed to be
about the same price as a same-size SATA one appears to be a refurb. But
maybe the answer will be useful later.
Is there any disadvantage in mixing SAS and SATA drives on an SAS
controller? My FreeNAS machine has all SATA...
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ARGOSY - HD363N - Network Storage by
BobVal
I have just purchased a Argosy - HD363N Network Storage Enclosure and
put in my Maxtor 200 gig drive.
This Enclosure connects to your router by RJ45 and allows adding
Network storage cheaply.
It supports Fat16, Fat32.
The problems I am having:
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What's the best way to fully erase external working USB HDDs? by
Ant
Hello.
What's the best way to fully erase external working USB HDDs? I don't think old
classic DBAN can handle external working USB HDDs? Any others to use in Linux,
Mac OS, and Windows to reuse the external USB HDD (not broken/dead yet)?
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Quote of the Week: "Ants never sleep." --Ralph Waldo...
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