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gsmartcontrol
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Are HDDs REALLY better than SSDs for long term bulk storage?
Most advanced SMARTmonTools or if you on windows and prefer GUI, then there is wrapper GSmartControl
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Why is one 44% good and one 80% caution?
Edit: Looking at this answer again, and the threshold column may also be obtuse and unhelpful. I haven't used it before, but GSmartControl looks like a much better tool for inspecting S.M.A.R.T. status on Windows.
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Scanning and repairing drive (C:)
If you want to check the state of your hard drive, grab a tiny program to check the S.M.A.R.T. table, you're looking most importantly for "Reallocated Sectors", and "Pending Reallocation Events", as well as any Errors reported/recorded. Bad sectors are the most common sign a drive is failing. https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/
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PC restarted just after boot
For Storage Drives You can use some of Windows tools but it’s more for checking for corrupt files and repairing them 1. Using built in Windows Utilities. You can open Command Prompt or Powershell as Administrator and you can run a few commmands to make sure everything (software wise) is okay. Use sfc /scannow to run what’s called System File Checker. This will check the Windows component store for corruption and repair any it finds. When finished you should see a message like “Windows did not find any integrity violations” which means no corruption was found. You can also use chkdsk C: however this is basically a torture test for your drive. If your drive is showing early signs of faliure, do not run chkdsk on it. It will only accelerate its eventual complete failure. 2. Using external tools. A very helpful tool to use would be Crystal Disk Info. This will check the SMART status of all connected drives and make sure all are okay. You can run SMART tests for your drives by using either GSmartControl or SeaTools.
- Langsamer PC/Seiten laden sehr langsam
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I have several external hard drives and a brand-new one. How do I know which to replace? Should I always assume oldest = likeliest to fail? Longest time to start up? Loudest?
There are many tools to get this data; I recommend GSmartControl.
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PS3 stuck at restoring
The issue is that files became corrupted, resulting in it needing to check the file system. If you have a hard drive enclosure, I would recommend using the enclosure to connect the drive to a computer, and running a drive diagnostic utility. GSmartControl is a great free program for checking the drive for physical damage. HDDScan can show you where there are bad sectors on the drive. If you’re feeling adventurous, it’s worth looking at Hard Disk Sentinel, because it allows you to attempt repairs and resolve any issues you have with hard drives.
- Samsung 980 Pro 2 TB Bad LBA
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HDD issue (I think)
But what I would do first is run GSmartControl to check the SMART info of the drive to see if the disk itself is toast. If it's the disk that is broken, send it to data recovery professionals or buy another 3 TB drive and use ddrescue to copy the drive over to the new one and cross your fingers.
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HDD problems after tripping power breaker. Ran Diskpart Clean which failed to complete and now I can't reinitialize "because of an I/O device error"
Have you checked the SMART stats? It might be stuck trying to reallocate sectors as well. There are quite a few options for reading SMART stats, I usually just run GSMARTControl for Windows. https://gsmartcontrol.shaduri.dev/
openSeaChest
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WD refused to answer our questions about its self-wiping SanDisk SSDs
By the way, but I've discovered that Seagate has published the source code for openSeaChest:
> openSeaChest is a collection of comprehensive, easy-to-use command line diagnostic tools and programming libraries for storage devices that help you quickly determine the health and status of your storage product. The collection includes several tests that show device information, properties and settings. It includes several tests which may modify the storage product such as power management features or firmware download. It includes various commands to examine the physical media on your storage device. Close to 200 commands and sub-commands are available in the various openSeaChest utilities. These are described in more detail below.
https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest
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Firmware Update for an Array Drive
If it’s a Seagate drive they publish openSeaChest which can update drive firmware on any Linux or FreeBSD system. https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest/releases
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Upgrade Seagate EXOS drive via an external enclosure
USB is tricky as it requires translation but sometimes you can do a passthrough. The full list of commands is listed in the SeaChest user guide. The ASMedia ASM225CM is using UASP so forcing SCSI might work, but it might be best to read or ask on the openSeaChest github which has an openSeaChest_PassThroughTest command for diagnosis.
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Enabling 4K sectors on Seagate 4k/512e drives using only a Disk Station (Plus versions) and DSM (Docker/ubuntu and openSeaChest) - Dumbed Down Version
Why don't you just go to https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest/releases/tag/v23.03.1 and download the binary?
- Hard Drive Load Cycle Count
- Bricked 10TB WD Elements with SeaTools by Sanitize Overwrite
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My hard disk keeps going to sleep even though the option is set to never.
Modern hard drives use EPC (extended power conditions) to manage power states. The drive goes into different idle states depending on how long it has been idle. You can modify these settings with SeaChest https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest/releases
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Enabling 4K sectors on Seagate 4k/512e drives using only a Disk Station and DSM
Download the latest version of openSeaChest to your new container.
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How Do Hard Drives Fail? - Chia Blog
For anyone unaware (most people), seagate has an open source command line utility for drive stats and management that you can download and compile on any operating system. https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest You can use it for smart monitoring, secure drive erasure, power and idle/standby timer settings, and more depending on the supported features of the drive.
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Avoid HDDs sleep? WSL mount
I found out about this project the other day: https://github.com/Seagate/openSeaChest it lets you directly set adjustable parameters on the drives and works on any OS.
What are some alternatives?
KDiskMark - A simple open-source disk benchmark tool for Linux distros
udisks - The UDisks project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices and technologies.
CrystalDiskInfo - CrystalDiskInfo
zbx-smartctl - Templates and scripts for monitoring disks health with Zabbix and smartmontools
CrystalDiskMark - CrystalDiskMark
CacheLib - Pluggable in-process caching engine to build and scale high performance services
chiadog - A watch dog providing a peace in mind that your Chia farm is running smoothly 24/7.
static-web-server - A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. ⚡
xNVMe - Portable and high-performance libraries and tools for NVMe devices as well as support for traditional/legacy storage devices/interfaces.
urde - A native reimplementation of the Metroid Prime engine
rapiddisk - An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those volumes locally or export them across an NVMe Target network. Manage it all from a web API.