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Socoder -> Off Topic -> DNA's Drive |
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| Tue, 13 May 2025, 13:27 | |
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dna |
Is anyone here familiar with Crystal Disk Info and the meaning of its functions?
-=-=- DNA |
| Tue, 13 May 2025, 13:27 | |
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dna |
The error question that I had may not now be necessary to answer. The Yellow caution box has gone away. It's good now.
-=-=- DNA |
| Fri, 16 May 2025, 18:18 | |
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dna |
I spoke too soon. The disk needs replacing. I'm in the red. -=-=- DNA |
| Sat, 17 May 2025, 00:08 | |
Jayenkai
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Nothing worse than a dead/dying drive. Hopefully you've got plenty of backups available. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!'' 
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| Tue, 20 May 2025, 13:51 | |
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dna |
Here's another stupid question. What is the best free utility for locking out bad sectors of a hard drive? I need to use this while I get a replacement.
-=-=- DNA |
| Tue, 20 May 2025, 13:51 | |
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dna |
I tried a low lever format on the drive. It' about done. Crystal Disk tell me that it's BAD and so it will be replaced.
-=-=- DNA |
| Wed, 21 May 2025, 01:25 | |
cyangames
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Yeah, if a drive is dying you want to just NOT use it aside from a final backup / clone of the drive onto a new one, otherwise you're just risking further data loss.
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| Fri, 30 May 2025, 14:25 | |
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dna |
It really amazes me that SSDs have such short life. One of mine is down to 53 % and it's coming up on being two years old. Ridiculous!
-=-=- DNA |
| Fri, 30 May 2025, 14:25 | |
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Jayenkai
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SSD's can have an incredibly long lifespan. The trick to having one last as long as it can include things like leaving about 10% free at all times, so that the drive can cope with any failings it might have. Also, each "unit" of data (I'm saying unit because different drives and different file formats, etc) typically has a write-limit. That is to say, you can write usually a thousand or so times before that little unit can't do any more. That's why you're supposed to leave the 10% or so. So that when a little unit dies, the drive can go "oh, that's dead, let's try another unit".. Basically, you aren't supposed to completely fill your SSD, nor are you meant to hammer it constantly with programs that write oodles of data to the drive. If your main drive is an SSD, and you're doing Video work, it's a really good idea to get an HDD to do that work with, be it internal or external. -=-=- ''Load, Next List!''
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