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Questions tagged [hard-drive]

Questions about hard disks' performance, issues, tips, and software.

Questions about hard disks performance, issues, tips, and related software, e.g. data recovery or disk test software.

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Partitioning an External HDD

I have an external hdd and i want to partion it into 2 partitions which are ext4 and ntfs. Is that OK with this kind of partitioning and Is there a problem with partitioning an external hdd rather than internal one? Thank you!
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How much latency does raid 5 add to transfers?

Your bandwidth/throughput should go up with raid 5, but you will take a bit of hit in latency after you over run the cache, since you need to calculate the parity. Has anybody done a latency test using 1 HD vs 3 HD in raid 5? I am very interested…
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monitor hardisk space and notify on ubuntu

how do i do that if space is less than x% it will notify me by mail? i have ubuntu and my HD are LVM
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Moving Ubuntu disks to a new server

An Ubuntu (Hardy Heron) server here died a couple of days ago. Fortunately, the hard drives were OK. So now we have a new server with the old disks installed. The new server won't boot. After a number of lines in the boot sequence, it says that…
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Looking for Hard Drive Health Monitoring software

I am aware that the current standard method of drive redundancy and backups would be a better solution, but I would be interested if there was a software that could be installed on workstation computers that could monitor hard drive health and give…
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Setting thresholds via smartd.conf

We currently use smartd to monitor SMART health on our disks. I would like to set the 'thresholds' that smartd uses to report. For example: 197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 9 198…
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Dell 2950 Perc 6/i "physical disk" and "Enclosure(Backplane)" under Connector 1 in OMSA tree- Troubleshoot help

Just looking for someone who might know why this could occur... In OMSA, on my Dell 2950, there usually is only one "Physical Disks" child under "Enclosure (Backplane)" in the tree view. Currently, the tree looks like this: Dell PERC 6/i…
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Upgrading NAS hard drives

I was thinking of buying a NAS for home-usage. I've never used a NAS or had HDDs set up in Raids. Before I commit myself to moving all my data to a NAS I need to find out how difficult it is to upgrade and replace the NAS' hard drives. Suppose I…
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What are performance limits of a database?

What are some rough performance limits (read/s, write/s) for a single database server (no master-slave architecture), assuming storage on disk? How many read/s, write/s, depending on the kind of disk? (SSD vs non-SSD) , assuming simple operations…
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Mounting a hard disk

I am new to Linux environment. I added a hard disk to my system. I am running Enterprise Linux Machine. It is not mounting my hard disk. Can any one tell me how to mount it? Thanks, Narendra
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How could I recover data from a physically damaged hard drive?

What hardware do I use to recover data from a physically damaged hard drive?
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mount server as external encrypted HD?

i have a few projects using git and i'd like to have a remote backup available in case our network goes down. I know how to create a bare git repository and push to it but how do i encrypt the contents so no one but us can see the source? I am…
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Defrag a drive encrypted with Whole Drive Encryption

I am running Windows Vista where the entire system drive has been encrypted using Truecrypt 6.2 Whole Drive Encryption (WDE). I was wondering whether defragging a drive which is encrypted with WDE would yield the same results as a non-encrypted…
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Use SSD for web server

Im building a new server for my company and would like to know which option is better? using SSD or traditional hard drives with RAID 10? I prediect that the web server will perform a lot of read/write operations, do SSDs have shorter life span?
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Is there a trayless external hard disk enclosure available?

I use in my Server a trayless hard disk rack, something like this: http://www.raidsonic.de/en/pages/products/mobile-racks.php?we_objectID=4343 I wonder if there is trayless external hard drive enclosure available? I searched but nothing turned up so…
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