Tag: Hard Drive

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What to Do When Your Hard Drive Warranty Replacement Is Out of Stock

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If your warranty replacement is out of stock, ask support for a ship estimate and an equivalent drive they can send now. Then decide how long your storage can safely wait. If a failed disk has left your NAS with reduced redundancy, check that your backups are usable and make a plan to replace the disk while the warranty claim is open. Ask what support can ship and when Have your claim number, drive model and capacity, serial number, and tracking handy. If you’ve already sent the drive, confirm support has logged it as received. Then ask these three questions:

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Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability: What Years of Drive Data Really Tell Home Users

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Backblaze publishes one of the most useful public datasets in storage: daily health records from hundreds of thousands of drives running in its data centers. I wanted to know what that data actually tells a home user shopping for backup, NAS or bulk-storage drives, so I pulled the public Drive Stats data into my own deterministic analysis instead of relying on a single quarter or a few headline numbers. Quick answer: Backblaze data is extremely useful, but it does not support a simple conclusion like “Brand X is best.” The better lesson is that specific drive models, capacity generations, age,

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What’s Happening with the CPU / GPU Markets and Hard Drives are Cheaper Than Ever – HGG473

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We have Bob Buskirk and Ryan Kerschner from ThinkComputers.org are back this week as we spend some time talking about the GPU and CPU markets, Hard Drive and Solid State storage and a long look at Bob’s new 49 Inch Ultra Widescreen Monitor. If you are a Patreon Subscriber or follow the Live Channel on… Click for more / Podcast Player>