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Mostly I think the protection circuit would short and you can remove the 2 chips for the 2 volatges 5V and 12V and get them working again. These would be the 2 large chips close to the power connector. Just clip the leads so they dont short out the power supply. You can check it with a meter...

NTFS will write data inside its own cluster if its small enough to fit so you dont waste space so that migtht be the descrepency. If I create a cluster with like 64 or 128K then files amller than those wont take up extra space on the drive with the file name and attributes etc.. And after 80%...

The drive was working fine and I have handled a lot of drives. So if any other condition I would know. And yes I know it rarely happens. But it did.. So for errors to develop in an arc shape would mean either the drive beign dropped and head scratching or the platter losing its sync marks caused...

I have stacked 100's of 3'5 and even 5 and 12 inch drives without noticing any problems. But the other day I moved 2 2'5 inch drives for cloning to use on a laptop and media device and since capacity was different I wanted to make sure they were the same physical size. So All I did was align...

I dont have a 4TB drive but everything in between upto 8TB.. But from what I understand the 4TB Seagates are now very reliable. They are often faster and use less power than the 5TB which are often based on the same electronics and chasis. I get the 5TB because for the same space you get a...

That is strange.. I have 2 relocated sectors which were caused by a power surge that fired the mother baord. And after checking the drive it started working again, total I have like almost 70TB and over 50% life left.. And it has been working fine for an year.. I think there might be other...

Seatools has low level format routines that remap bad sectors and the like. It takes a long time to scan each sector and wipe it though. Since the time it takes to wipe each sector is a constant, You have to use the dos version though. There are many programs that does wipes but seatools is the...

Yes since platter density is like 1TB per disk for 6 years.. My 2TB 2 platter seagate gives like 205MB.sec while my 5TB 5 platter Toshiba gives 225MB/sec.. So Toshiba must be using tracks more towards the edge than seagate. All higher density platters seems to be SMR. But I saw some info on...

Toshiba drives are noisier than others I have noticed, they are 7200 RPM and the fastest drives I seen.I was getting like 225MB speeds on them. Now there is no clicking but I have a seagate which does click when writing or when doing nothing at all and scares the hell out of me. Sometimes it...

I should also mention that you can not pull these drives out of their USB box and use them with a sata port to extract data if the USB interface dies. Seagate uses their own format which converts the Advanced 4K sectors into 512bytes then into 4K fat32 sectors. In essence you can have a 16TB...

Huge difference between WDC and Seagate 8TB drives. 10TB seagate drives use cross licensed WDC 8TB drives. Which has 8 platters of 1TB each in the WDC and 1/2TB shingled disks in the seagate. The 7200RPM seagate 8TB drives also have 8 platters and does not use shingled platters but the hitachi...

Does HGST report relocated sectors? I have a couple of HGST drives which even when abused dont show any bad sectors. Ofcourse I dont drop them to see if it actually works. But other drives with such abuse would get errors now and then. In fact the HGST drives never shows any errors for anything...

I have a seagate 2TB HD that now has like 32000 relocated sectors. For a while thee the number was going up by the hundreds every week but then it stopped. I used it for a year before swapping it out and just using it as a backup drive. Although nothing shows an error. The files on it seem...

I thought that was Microsoft.. Who before had the key inside as well.. But this is not encryption but actual code. That can download modules via the internet even if you have no OS installed. And I knew of the drive thing as I have done it for specific embedded systems and that someone was doing...

Is this a joke? I know they played with adding in code to execute hooks to install software that can monitor your system and they have this even in CPU's now. In fact this is not very hard to do at all.. The company found out one of the employees added such code and removed it. No connection was...

Is this a constant whine or squeek? I have had both but the squeek is troubling since it happens anytme at all but the drive has worked for a decade. Not seen that in any other drive. But the whine is the motor? It is really annoying and since there is no way to access it not possible to oil the...

Which CPU? maybe one of the ports went bad, which means one of the PCI lanes used to transfer data. I read that on older boards this was a problem with SATA3. So it could be that there is not enough bandwidth and the driver is turning off stuff to get them running so first drive would eb sata...

Noticed this but dont know how to fix it other than the windows operating system will access the drive, just the MFT every hour or so to refresh its cache. I was able to spin down the drive manually and have it wake up when accessed which took much longer than the windows sleep function. Windows...

Seagate bridge boards have built in LBA translators hence why you can format upto 16TB drives as FAT32. These drives wont show up on other bridge boards or SATA controllers. Drives under 2TB will work as normal though. Also normally formatted drives larger than 2TB wont show up with the seagate...

Well 100K writes to 10K writes is a hug difference but these days with multi level caching and stuff, it might work. I still prefer the way micron did it where it works as an SLC drive until it gets to 45% full when it switches to MLC modes.Cost would not really double for SLC and get 10 times...

The bigger question would be are the files intact. You have to check to see if they were corrupted in case the LBA addressing was messed up somehow. Rcuva wont fix that mess.

Been using USB3 since 5 years now. Now even intel which now have USB interface on the CPU itself and some of the PCIE lanes are reserved for USB3 and is much faster than the external chip. But this is iffy since using it with like with the motherboard USB slot to case connector wont work in all...

Well adding 8 drives to a 5gb slot would mean thats the max transfer rate for all drives combined. Copying from one drive to another would be similar to doing it over USB. Unless they are on separate controllers.

I think you can setup hardware raid on those controllers and since they have a CPU, it does the work of the raid part and would need the bios, but not needed if you are only using the cards for its SATA ports. x2 slots are only 5gb rate so slower than the sata3 6gb speeds.. Lots of complaints...

Heh these drives are also region locked so if you take it to Europe you wont get any warranty. Seagate is also the same way and like you mentioned, sending the bare drive back also is out of warranty. I know before 2010 they would accept just the drive but now no one does.

The WDC This WDC drives can been encrypted and hence the system is matched. Any changes and it wont work. Neither will the board work with any other drive. But the drive itself will show up properly as a blank to be used in a desktop etc.. The board looks very similar to the Toshiba board and...

Some 2TB 2.5 laptop drives are now SMR. Some how this drive now shows the normal hdtune graph I dont think there is anything wrong with the drive. Use terracopy to control file copies. Unlike the system copy commands, terracopy allocates the entire file size before copy starts and not on the fly...

Seagate makes SMR drives and have been for 5 years at least. Desktop type drives are not supposed to use SMR drives but OEM's might have mistakenly put in an SMR drive. Right now 2tb drives are SMR but their performance is as good as normal drives. This after 5 years of software tweaking and...

You are copying files to the very same drive or between 2 different drives? 15mb speeds copying a whole bunch of small files is normal. The drive would most likely be missing NCQ. But in this case I think there is some kind of cable fault. Did you try running the hd tune program multiple times...

You cant use a GPT partition to boot an OS without UEFI. And you need UEFI to boot. Windows uses the partition number and every GPT partition has a unique number so even an image copy wont work. There are programs like BCD edit and UEFI boot or something which allow you to point the boot pointer...

Are you talking about PATA drives here? This might have some kind of diskmanager controlled partition table so you have to boot off the original PC to gain access to the files. I think if you have the drive formated on the new pc and then move the drive over, copying files to it would show up on...

I think they will tell you to run the long test which actually zeros out the sector. I had a bad secor 1 and it would work sometimes and not others because the MBR is stored also at the end of the drive as well but it was iffy so I did the long test and the bad sectors were mapped out, but then...

A 3.1 means USB3. You need the B version for higher speeds but also the USB-C ports to use those speeds. My motherboard says its USB 3.1.. Which was the old USB3 speeds. It is still faster than the old USB3 even in USB2 modes. As an example, USB2 max rates are low 30's and getting 35mb/s means...

The Toshiba has like a 50% lower latency compared to the seagates. Which is why it is louder. I never imagined that a 5 platter drive could have 10-11ms access times, the 2 platter seagates was 17-18ms.. If you have a lot of small file access that does make a difference. But an SSD has sub 1ms...

Those are 5400RPM drive speeds, use crystal driveinfo and check what the RPM for the drive is. although they say 128mb, I think a lot of it is used by the OS itself. Seagate RPM is 5900 and not 5400 RPM so their drives are always faster.

Main problems with HD's from personal experience are stiction.. Someone I worked with visited a plant in Taiwan and he said the women were using a rag dipped in oil and wiped the platters to lube it. Oil will turn viscus with heat and age. But I had an IBM HD made in like 1984 and it worked fine...

You are talking about 1800mb/s v/s the 2200 mb/s speeds? You wont even notice the 500mb/s to the 1800mb/s speed up except in rare cases let alone the 400mb/s incrase there.. Now with a cpu thats different but I noticed that was only in specific cases like 265 encodes whichare now twice as fast...

I wonder if they have some kind of special controller for this. I read that some companies would buy a lot of 1TB or so SSD's which have direct access to the nand chips and controllers and it is programmed like software raid. So they can hook up hundreds of the suckers and have huge bandwidth...

Make sure it is a SATA hard drive first. I had a hitachi laptop which sort of looked like a sata connector but was their own. But the 2 laptops I have since 2010 both have sata connectors and connect to any new USB - SATA bridge boards. I use the bridge boards that come with the external backup...

These are the 8TB reds with maybe modified firmware, I was getting errors when just doing file copies but hitting retry would fix it. So it is like they time out rather fast unlike regular firmware which takes a while to give an error and most of the time a retry would not fix it and you would...