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10 questions linked to/from How Do I interpret HDD S.M.A.R.T Results?
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defective hard disk what should I do [duplicate]
My hd has "449 defective sectors", although system says it's "ok". What does that mean and what should I do to solve the problem? Thanks!
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Do I need to replace my hard disk?
Whenever I start my computer Ubuntu pops up the following error:
A hard disk may be failing
one or more hard disk report health problems
A friend of mine ran some test and it was found that my hard ...
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Is my hard-disk doomed?
SMART Data & Self-Tests Overall Assessment reports for both disks Disk is OK. What does this mean? According to the following two screenshots is my hard disk doomed?
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How do I diagnose my issue, when I'm not sure if it is a hardware or software issue?
I'm having some issue. I'm not sure if it is a hardware issue or a software issue, but I'd like to determine the cause of the issue so I can fix it. How can I do that?
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Continuous hard drive access noise
I have an Asus X201E netbook (with 2 GB of RAM) and Ubuntu 12.10.
The hard drive can almost always be heard being accessed, even when doing nothing. It is as if a search had been run on the entire ...
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Hard Drive Load Cycle Count
Does the load cycle count shown below, using SMART, show the total count of the hard drives lifetime? What is the maximum count?
Load_Cycle_Count 0x0032 081 081 000 Old_age Always ...
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HDD condition report
I am new to Ubuntu and I'm using a HDD plugged into the optical drive shaft and sometimes I get errors, regarded by the community as errors with bad SATA cable and power supply. I've scanned my HDD ...
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How strong is a HDD [closed]
I got a new hdd, I ended up scratching it (my case has alot of holes that are sharp) I'm not sure if i messed up anything, do you guys think it damaged the outlet? What does the outlet do anyway? I ...
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Laptop slowing down
A few months ago, I installed 14.04 LTS on my Acer Aspire 5250. Ubuntu ran great. Slowly but surely, it is slowing down more and more. I don'tknow what the cause of this could be. I haven't installed ...
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Is my HDD going to kick the bucket?
My kubuntu 18.04 sometimes behaves like there is no space left on HDD (can't update, errors popping up when open any application, etc.)
despite I am using only around 30Gb of a 320Gb drive. After hard ...
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