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I was fortunate to get in my possession 7, 8TB SAS drives that I would like to utilize in a home data storage server project I'm planning. I'm going to use an old dell precision 3630 that i got still new in box plus some minor upgrades for the project and I want to connect 3 of the SAS drives for a raid 1 set up in windows server and keep the other 4 drives as spares. The thing is, with the SAS drives I don't know where i would even start in getting to connect them to an ordinary desktop. I would like to utilize their full duplex ability and rated 12Gb/spec speeds even thought its super overkill. (I mainly want to expose myself to the technology first hand and learn about it more). To my knowledge i would need a PCIe expansion card to do that but will any work? Also how what kind of connector would i use? All I know is I'll need a SFF-8482 connector for the drive end. More insight would be appreciated, I don't mind buying expansion cards or cables. Thank you.
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My dad wanted to move to ssd for his computer cause his hdd was getting slow and as preparation I put a backup on my gaming pc just in case using minitools backup. Afterwards windows asked to format and I did the format and the files corrupted. after a recovery a ton of files were lost so I went to the backup. now I'm hopefully waiting as I'm putting the backup data back on the hdd and wondering if there's a way to not have it formatted on my dads pc or a way to keep all the data on it and have it visible as it has business files on it (It will be still transferring files for the next hour from the time this is posted)
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i had a dual boot pc one with windows other on kali i needed disk space so i tried deleting the kali system but now it dosnt come up in file manager any help??
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Budget (including currency): around $150 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Storing/editing YT videos. Other details: I make YouTube videos, but my old hand-me-down 5400 2.5” HDD is anything but fast (120MB/s Seq. Read, 90MB/s Seq. Write, 2-4MB/s Random Read, 1-3MB/s Random Write), not to mention only 1TB, which won’t last forever. I plan to eventually upgrade, and I want to get something that I’ll keep for a long time. Thanks! PC Specs: AMD Ryzen 5 “5625G” 6 core, 12 thread, 4.7GHz all-core. (OC) MSI Gaming X Nvidia GeForce GTX 1660 Ti 6G @2175GHz (OC) 16GB DDR4-3200 CL16 T-Force Vulcan Z RAM 500GB WD_BLACK SN770 NVMe SSD 500GB WD Blue SN570 NVMe SSD ASUS PRIME B550-PLUS Gaming Motherboard 1TB WD Blue HDD (old) 250GB Hatachi DeskStar HDD (old) Aresgame AGV750 750w Semi-Modular PSU DeepCool Matrexx 50 Add-RGB 4F ATX computer case Cooler Master ML280 Mirror 280mm ARGB Liquid Cooler Peripherals: ASUS VP249QGR 144Hz 1080p Display Acer H243H 60Hz 1080p Display Redragon K556 Devarajas Mechanical Gaming Keyboard Logitech G502 Hero Gaming Mouse Blue Snowball ICE Microphone Creative Pebble Desktop Speakers
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I am having issues with windows failing to boot when I have mechanical drives plugged in ... The drives are about a year old, and at first there was no problem, then windows 11 pushed an update (not sure which one) and my system started to either hang when booting or with one of the drives missing (which one would be random/no lost data when they would connect). This got so frustrating that I rolled back to windows 10 a few months ago & that fixed it ... Then two days ago windows installs an update and my hard drives are now broken with 10: can anyone answer me why this is happening & how I can fix it? I have my C drive installed on a 1tb SSD, a 500gb M.2 drive for my modern games, and then I have 2x 2tb mechanical HDDs I use for low importance / high volume stuff like my GOG library, movies, and music. I did notice that Windows is labeling the HDDs as "removable storage" despite being directly connected the SATA header.
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I want to know, Can I set up RAID on SSD and RAID on HDD separately in a single system? Yes, I don't want RAID on SSD and HDD together cause it affects the speed of the drives. I want both speed and reliability on drives. I use my RIG for gaming and other productivity purposes Like Editing Video on Premier Pro, Using AutoCAD for Designing 3D models, Illustrator and Photoshop for Photo editing, Etc. The motherboard that I am using is Z790 Proart wifi. 3 out of 4 M.2 slot has been used for keeping the 8 SATA ports active. 6 SATA port is used for HDDs(Barracuda Pro 10TB) 2 SATA port is(will be) used for SSDs(Empty{Don't know which SATA SSD is reliable in the market at the time of writing}) The SATA SSD will be used as Cache Drive. HDDs are for Bulk storage until I get a NAS in my hand. So, The objectives are to run the M.2s at UNRAID for Maximum performance, SATA SSDs as Cache, HDDs for bulk storage for completed projects. I also need to know which SATA SSD is reliable. Thank you so much for your attention and participation.
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Here is a screenshot of the "Optimise Drives" app from windows. It seems confusing to me as I was told that SMR drives don't need to be defragmented, because of their shingled layer storage? Is there anything that I should do to remove the fragmentation?
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Hello, I bought a HDD on ebay. And would like an estimate on the price in relation to the potential shortened runtime. I am quite concerned about the packaging. And therefore also about the price. (see attachment) I currently have H2testw running, but I am still unsure. It is a "3TB Western Digital Blue" for which I paid 32€(33,92USD).
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Budget (including currency): $70.00 USD Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: primarily for the storage of the majority of the files on my system, documents, pictures, music, and programs. additionally will serve as bulk storage for games that i am not currently playing but are too big to just reinstall later when I do want to play. I would also prefer to play smaller games that don't benefit much from faster storage directly off of this drive. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): so my 4tb bulk storage drive is having some complex issues that i wont go into here(check my previous posts) but require its replacement as the only permeant solution. I'm undecide as to rather it would be worth my time to replace it with a WD Red drive or if i should just go for the standard WD Blue. the the prices are similar enough that i could get either one, my only sticking point at the moment is i don't really know what kind of performance to expect from a red drive, or how the lower cache size will effect the performance. on paper the driver should perform almost identically. i understand that red drives are meant to be higher quality over all.
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So I just got this new 4tb WD Blue HDD from their Amazon Store. This is technically the second one now as the first started making a brief, rhythmic grinding noise while copying my files to it. This replacement just made a similar, more of a buzz-like sound for a few seconds. I'm used to drives being louder when writing data to them, but so far these drives are ultra quiet, so the buzz is very obvious if it happens. I'm copying 1.86tb to it when this sound happens so I'm wondering if since this drive is abnormally quiet, is this a normal amount of noise on occasion while copying or is this possibly the second HDD they've sent that's a fail? (The rhythmic part is what's making me uneasy really.)
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So just got a new pc that i bult myself and i got a seagate barracuda 2t hdd and when i turn on the computer it makes a few beeps for a while and then eventually stops but the hdd is never detected, i looked around and it was saying that it can mean its not getting enough power but i did a test and my computer isnt getting anywhere near the 750w power supply i have
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To be clear I have windows install on SSD and rest of application like VSCode, Steam etc. installed on hdd(brand new). It would work fine for certain time but after sometime it's usage in task manager gose to 100. At first I thought my sata cable had gone bad so I switched it and it worked. But issue came back so I thought perhaps there is problem with port so I switched it solved the problem or so I thought. I don't know what's the problem can someone help.HDD is Western Digital Blue.
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Hi all, I need some help with a storage spaces storage pool. OS: Windows 10 Pro SATA Drives: Samsung SSD (Boot), DVD-RW, 2 x WD Blue 4TB, 2 x other HDD's I have two 4TB drives setup in two-way mirror mode via storage spaces, many years ago. The pool is almost full now, and one of the drives is showing some pending sectors, so I snagged two new 8TB drives in a good deal. I intend to replace 2 x 4TB (mirror'd) drives with 2 x 8TB drives, maintaining it in NTFS, and maintaining all data since I have some programs installed in this pool. I'm wondering what the best approach is? I've seen some tutorials on how to do this for drives of the same size, but not for different (larger) new drives, which I expect would create some issues? I also clicked the 'upgrade pool' button, which I understand is some sort of new feature, so I'm not sure if it affects how previous tutorials work. I use the DVD-RW drive, and the two other HDD's for work data. Therefore, it would be best to minimize the downtime of these drives if possible. The way I see it, one way would be to remove the other two work HDD's - mount the 2 new 8TB drives, and set up a new storage pool on those drives. Then, copy everything from the old pool into the new pool, unmount the old pool and rename the new pool's drive path. Is this sensible? Thanks in advance for your feedback.
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Hi Im building a small software riad for my increasing bluray backup (plus all other valuable data) the array will be built of 8tb HDDs, in a cooler master silencio 550 (i went to a fiar bit of effort to find a case with 5.25" bays as well as many hdd space). I have 2x 5.25 blueray drives and an 3rd 5.25" bay with an hotswap bay. Hdds go upto 18tb currently in the consumer space, i considered however that it may be useful to create an external parity drive for the array in the pc. The array will be running windows as my backup software will need to be run on this ofc and i dont understand enough about unraid or similiar things to worry about running containers and feeding the hdd space to it etc (seems too complex to worry about tbh) This is more a thought experiment atm but due to the fact that a single large drive is also very expensive- based on the fact the array is unlikely to be updated very often- could an drive be created for parity to keep in as an "external" spare to help rebuild the array should one drive fail? I know most of you will say nas or synology but i really dont need anything like a nas just a vault to protect my data and hold my bluray drives etc May also be worth mentioning this pc i will need to run headlessly which i will be looking into so any advice here would be great (no i dont want a subscription). Any thoughts on this would be welcome. Thanks alex
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Hello everyone, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I have a 2 TB seagate external HDD.It doesn't show up in my computer ,it does show up in Devices and Printers and when I open disk manager it wants me to initialize and partition the drive which is a bad news because i have data on it and i dont want to lose it. Just booted up Tenorshare 4DDiG to see if i can recover anything, been waiting 40 minutes out of the 18 hour time remaining so far 0 files found
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So I’m finally getting off my ass and properly setting up my homelab. I’d like to run the thing as cheaply as possible and don’t mind scaling down the applications. I want to upgrade my 6 year old 500gb external HDD as it has been the main disk for 3 of my samba servers. The stuff stored on there is starting to get important enough that I need some sort of redundancy and backup. My current plan is to buy 2x 4TB external drives. The drive configuration is my main question. I don’t think this tiny boi could really handle ZFS, BTRFS, or RAID (mdadm) so my plan was to rclone the drives every night (maybe once a week). I couldn’t really find too much on the performance hit though. I’m also a little scared of the recovery process for RAID, because I had a freenas system die taking out the os and a drive. It took me a week to recover the data (which involved a lot of partition table editing, or something). I just need want a second opinion and advice as most of my circles find no interest in this stuff. Extra Info Regarding my Hardware and lab services Key: * = high priority, everything else I don’t mind dropping. Potential Tasks: Samba Server for users who want it (I’ll probably make a registration front end) *Backup (My last server used duplicity over FTP, I’ll have to explore options) My current backup solution is a hard drive on my desk rclone/rsync – the family business files (Google drive and a mac computer which receives very little love) *Automation tasks I have a script that moves files from a certain USB to a newly created folder. A backup of itself (thinking timeshift, but still to explore) Services (Docker hopefully): Plex *Plex for manga (Lanraragi, Komga, Kavita – in order of most Likely) (Will replace a single samba share) *gitea I’ll be using it as a backup for my github repos VM (possibly steam in-home streaming) ghost (CMS) (I’ll be building my portfolio on it and using it for deploying to my vps) Focalboard – for family business task management (to explore) Stock Photo's application I'm building for videos Hardware (NUC knockoff): CPU: Celeron J1900 Memory: 4GB OS: Ubuntu 22.04 server Drives and Config: Samba4 on external drive Drives are: 250GB SSD (Main OS) 230GB HDD (2.5 inch running through usb to sata connector – not used) 500GB external HDD (85% capacity - The Samba disk) Hardware Upgrades: Aside from the drives I don't really want to spend money on this thing. I'll be increasing the SSD's swap space if it needs more memory. HDD Swapping out both HDD for 2x4TB external USB HDD in some sort of redundant mode It's late here so I'll be back tomorrow. Thanks everyone for the help
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the first HDDs were the size of refrigerators with platters 16 inches across modern hard drives are all 3.5 inches or smaller What if we took everything weve learned about manufacturing hdds and applied it to older form factors? Like for example if we made 5.25 drives with modern manufacturing processes we could get monstrously high storage capacities at the cost of physical size im sure there are plenty of datacenters and digital archives that would have niche but lucrative use cases for such a drive
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A friend of mine is experiencing problems when attempting to start his computer. He tells me that the computer tries to check, and fix, any* 'potential problems' in the hard drive. After waiting multiple hours, it only get as far as about 20% or so, and will restart the checking procedure - essentially just stuck in this weird loop. The only way he's managed to actually get into it has been to 'luckily' get to it just before it starts and spamming a key to bypass the check. However, this is of no use, as he can't access things like the settings app (it closes itself automatically every time he tried to launch it) to change the boot config, and no command prompt executions seemed to have made a difference to the boot sequence either. He's also tried to boot in safe mode, which Just didn't work. The HDD is a 2TB barracuda drive as his only storage media, and running Windows 10 off of it. Would the best course of action to be a clean reinstall of Windows 10 and go from there? He doesn't have any important information on it, so I spose he could wipe the drive completely and start again? Some help would be thoroughly appreciated, thankyou!
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Hello people, I have an HPE ProLiant MicroServer Generation 8 (Gen8) and I looking to make a small NAS for the home based on TrueNAS Core. 2x4GB DDR3 ECC and a Celeron® G1610T *(if anyone has an E3-1265L v2 or E3-1260L I would happily pay to be shipped to me ) I would like to get 4 x4TB HDD and set them on a RAID 5 (RAIDZ1) with an SSD 128Gb that I already have on hand on the ODD for boot.(currently booting from an SD Card 32GB I am looking at the IRON WOLF (very popular choice) , the WD RED (smr vs cmr scandal) or the Toshiba N300 (looks very good on paper). Fist of all if you had to pick one of the 3 above , which would you picked? Also do you have any alternative options that you could recommendations ( a friend of mine suggested to go with enterprise HDD but they are very expensive) Thanks in advance
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Hello I have two SSD's with Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04 installations respectively. I recently added a HDD with the idea of having shared storage between the two operating systems. I formatted the HDD as an NTFS drive on Windows and I can read and write with no problem from that side. Yet, I can only read data from the Ubuntu side. Is there a way to have both read and write capabilities from the Ubuntu side? Thanks
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Hi everyone! I have been a long time fan of LTT and this is officially my first post as a forum member! I'm having issues with my internal HDD and am no expert in computing by any means. In fact I am looking to make a better build that will allow for better performance once I start my full time job. Here are my computer specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 3600X 6-Cores GPU: Nvidia GTX 1660 SUPER Main Drive: 1 TB SSD - no issues at all Second drive: Seagate ST2000MD008 spec sheet found here. Motherboard: Gigabyte B450M-DS3H-CF (basic bitch board) RAM: I think crucial 16GB @ 3600 MHz but for some reason task manager shows it at 2133 (probably some tuning thing I don't understand) So now to the problem, my hard drive is very very slow and I barely use it. I bought it for the purposes of backing up my college cloud storage (about 90GB) onto a hard disk. Anytime I try to copy to this drive I get my entire PC freezing up and the disk usage goes to 100% and the speeds go down to 0. I am not sure why this is happening but according to the spec sheet, connected via SATA it should read at the minimum 1.5 Gb/s which is ~180 MB/s, but I get 0 MB/s and sometimes it jumps up and down between smaller KB/s speeds. Does anyone know why this is happening? Things I have tried so far: optimizing drive and defragmenting, but that doesn't make sense as it is a basically clean drive since I can't get anything to even go onto it without taking days. Any help is appreciated and any guidance throughout fixing this would be a HUGE help!
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So I bought a Seagate Ironwolf 8TB NAS drive and am trying to install it in my PC. For some reason, the drive does not spin up when the PC is turned on and the UEFI/BIOS shows the SATA port on the motherboard is not being used or connected to anything (My 2 SSDs show up fine). I confirmed the SATA Data and SATA Power cables work just fine (with my SSD drives). I also tried a MOLEX to SATA adapter to power the HDD. Nothing. I tried to install it on my brother's PC using the same cables and ports he uses for his working WD 6TB Drive. Nothing. I have had this happen with 2 other drives and I asked for replacements each time thinking 1 drive must be faulty, the second one was a one-off fluke but now the third isn't working either and it has to be something with my PC by this point I think. Like 99.99% sure that 3 drives I get in a row are not faulty. Oh the only time it spun up and I confirmed it was a working drive was when I chucked it into an external enclosure and turned it on. With the enclosure it worked but it could only read 4TB because the USB driver of the enclosure is very old and I need it as an internal drive anyway. Can somebody help me figure this out, please?