Questions tagged [drive-health]
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Do I have a bad SSD? Bad block count at 257
I have Adata su650 480GB SSD which is generally working fine. Recent check of SMART values using CrystalDiskInfo reports 257 bad block count. Now I need to know a few things with respect to this parameter
What is this bad block count and is it…
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How to check total written size to USB thumb drives?
(Asking in general but I need the answer specifically for SanDisk drives)
Is there a way to see total written size to USB thumb drives? Just like Samsung-Magician's SSD health check, but for thumb/flash drives.
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For example If you create a 2MB…
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Is my HDD failing?
I tried to resize a partition of my 3-year-old HDD using gparted, but it failed and displayed a message saying that there were bad blocks and that was a sign of physical damage to the drive.
I used badblocks to check for bad blocks, and there are…
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Browser download files directly to external drive without copy to main drive
From a perspective of preserving the main drive life as much as possible,
it would be a good practice to download files directly to an external drive.
Browser Settings -> Downloads Directory -> [External Drive Folder]
But how much effective this…
neoDev
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