hard drive

Hey everyone, So while I can't say "I haven't used hard drives in a while" I certainly can say "I haven't used hard drives in client machines in a while" I discovered the beautiful world of SSD's in 2009, and there was no turning back. I haven't had a spinning hard drive in a client since...

Title says it all, I have 5 HGST 7200rpm hard drives for sale, $10 each local pickup in Austin texas. They've been sitting on my shelf for years and years. They are used drives, no warranty. Last used before 2020. I had them up for sale on this forum before, I'll link the thread for the SMART...

WTB: 2TB NVME (mid-range, DRAM, TLC) Local is 91320 (SoCal). The hard drive must have DRAM cache, and if possible be TLC based. No brand preference. Not interested in other 1TB or 4TB sizes. This will go into my 7 year old daughter's first gaming and learning programming desktop PC. Let me know...

Hello, this is my 1st post and the reason why I joined. I have a water-damaged hard drive 6TB that had water on-or-in it for 1 day and then I dried it out. I see no water corrosion damage anywhere on the drive itself or the internal control board in the chassis or housing. This hard drive would...

When tested Samsung EVO 850 emits whirring and low-pitched noises akin to those that hard drives make. Noise doesn't come out of speakers but from within laptop's chassis. I didn't have this problem with other SSDs.

Here is the Deal link from Adorama Haven't posted for a while, but I just bought the 2-pack for my own NAS, the cheapest price I can find that offers a full warranty from a legit retailer. Usually if you buy one it's $299. This deal makes the cost @ $17.5 per TB, some states might need to pay...

2x WDC WD80EZZX-11CSGA0 8001.5 GB Pulled from EasyStore external enclosures. Excellent Condition and taken care of, no bumps or anything. The only thing are some CRC connection errors in smart, from a set of bad cables. When I changed the cables, everything was fine. Drives are healthy...

So, here is a little bit of an unusual one (at least for me) I've been running large storage arrays for years, but never encountered this one before. I am one by one replacing my old 10TB Seagate Exos X10 ST10000NM0016 drives in my main storage server with newer, larger 16TB Seagate Exos X18...

Hey everyone, Hoping someone may be able to provide some guidance here as I am in uncharted territory. I recently accidentally broke a Virtual Volume running on an ARECA 1882IX-12 and as a result I am no longer able to access it (obviously) as well as the other two volumes that existed. I have...

Hi, I've just bought the computer with the below Hard Faults/sec, does it mean there's a fault with it? The Resource Monitor also froze most of the time and had to be forcefully shut down.

Hi, What does connection on the left side of photo do?

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Hello, I haven't used my hard drive for over a year. It was in my cabinet all that time. It's a 2.5 inch hard drive from laptop that I put into external closure and connected with 2 split USB cables (one is data and another is power) It makes some weird noise and is not recognized in Windows...

HI, I'm a television editor and new to the forum. Years ago I built a RAID for video editing using an ARECA 1882x which has worked great. Recently the 4tb HGST drives started dying and I want to replace the drives. Is there a limit to the size of SATA drives this older card can handle? I...

Nice deal for a sh*t-ton of storage! https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-easystore-12tb-external-usb-3-0-hard-drive-black/6364259.p?skuId=6364259

I have 3 new Western Digital 8 Terabyte (WD82PURZ) Surveillance Hard Drives for trade. One has been opened from its sealed package so i could look at it, the other two are still sealed in their package. (They are not in a box) Just in the sealed static guard packaging. Like this...

Hello [H], I'm selling numerous HGST hard drives in 4tb and 6tb sizes. Fist off I have two new unopened (HGST) Hitachi Deskstar NAS 6tb hard drives. Both drives are brand new in their original packaging. The drives have been sitting on my shelf collecting dust for about two years, and since...

As the title says, looking for 1 maybe 2 WD Red 6TB NAS Hard Drive(s). WD Red 6TB NAS Hard Drive - 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD60EFRX

WD 10TB Elements Desktop Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBWLG0100HBK-NESN is $159.99 at Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3QMPB5/

Selling my hard drives that I've collected hopping I'll use them, but never did. I would like to sell these all as bunch. Price does not include shipping. Local pick up welcome in 94116 or near by. Internal Hard Drives :- 2.5" SATA WD 320GB scorpio black drive :- Sold Toshiba 500GB drive :-...

I have a lot of IT customers that need small server setups. These usually end up as some plywood bolted to a wall somewhere, the we wall mount a Mac mini, routers, switches etc. It's a pretty good setup, keeps the server components well ventilated and away from the humans that might do them...

$67.00 WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN https://www.amazon.com/Book-Desktop-External-Drive-WDBFJK0040HBK-NESN/dp/B00E3RH61W $85.99 ($77 Amazon Warehouse Deals also) WD 4TB My Book Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0 - WDBBGB0040HBK-NESN...

Hello everyone, I recently acquired a few used 500Gb Western Digital white label 2.5'' drives (model WD5000LUCT), and I'd like to convert them into external hard drives. I hot plugged them in my Asus P8Z77-V PRO/Thunderbolt without any hassle. I ran SMART tests and they all passed. I then...

Since 2013 Backblaze has published the data from its massive army of hard drives, and today they have released the results of Q1 2018. As of March 31, 2018 they had 100,110 drives, and the 26 GB of SMART data lets us see how these bits of spinning rust are holding up. Looks like there is less...

One of my internal SATA hard drives ( 1TB Samsung 7200rpm ) keeps disappearing every time when I copy/transfer files to it. It also sometimes randomly disppears by itself too. In fact it actually just happened again as I was typing this.... Opening up disk management doesn't show the drive...

I upgraded my unraid media server to 8TB drives so I have a few of these 4TB left that I couldn't re-purpose for other tasks. I have four still available. They are $40 each shipped to anywhere in the USA via USPS Priority Mail. If you need any other specifics about the drives just let me know...

Hey guys, This all started when "ERROR LOADING OS'' message popped up in the initial stage of starting of the PC. Luckily, I have managed to fix this issue for now, I was able to back up all my data. It looks like my hard- drive going bad I have run all different type of diagnostics tool like...

In a report from The Register, Micron is planning to release quad-level flash cell drives later this year. QLC flash stores 4bits/cell vs TLC flash's 3 meaning a 6TB TLC SSD could become an 8TB QLC SSD using this technology, and start encroaching on the nearline disk market. QLC flash does...

Backup company Backblaze has released it's hard drive data from 2017. During Q3 and Q4 Backblaze removed nearly all the 3TB drives it had in service, and began installing 10TB and 12TB drives in their place. One thing that has been true year after year, HGST drives are pretty reliable. I look...

Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 / i5-4590 / 8GB G.Skill DDR3 Ripjaws X / GTX 970 / Corsair CX550M / Windows 8.1 64 bit / 1TB Toshiba HDD / 1TB WD Blue HDD / 2TB Seagate Firecuda HDD / 500GB Adata SSD as my boot drive. The Toshiba and WD drives still have windows installed on them, I use the ssd as my...

~Samsung S8 64GB Verizon - Orchard Gray - Factory Unlocked ~$500 shipped CONUS~ Brand new, never used Samsung S8. Only turned on to see if it works. Factory plastic still on screen and back. Don't like the form factor. Factory unlocked. ~4TB HGST Coolspin Retail Boxed Used ~$75ea or...

Doesn't matter if its sata ll or lll it just needs to hold an image and sit in a closet in case of emergency. Let me know what you have and what you want for it, shipping would be to 37323 (TN)

I was just reading some forum posts here on [H] about M.2 mobo slots possibly being slower than an M.2 on a PCIE card and started poking around on my mobo and remembered I had these U.2 sockets on there. U.2 was supposed to be the new hotness but I don't see anyone ever mention these things and...

NEW THREAD: https://hardforum.com/threads/random-hardware-and-other-things.1972415/ SOLD

I have an old hard disk of 40 GBs and it has some data on it which is of a younger me. What is the easiest way to get it out? I don't currently have a PC. I use Laptop. Please help!

WE DID IT EVERYONE!!! WOOHOO! Thank you again for everyone who bought something. I have some more stuff coming up as I clean out the office/lab! Cannot find the close option anymore! Happy weekend everyone! I need to downsize some cheap stuff. We are going to make this cheap to move. SOLD...

Sixfootduo's For Sale Tread. Cool Stuff Enclosed. Sorry, not looking for trade. Thank you in advance. Reference: 14 or 15 year old eBay account with 100% feedback ( mediaplayaz ) Personal phone information provided as well. Paypal only. 3 x For Honor / Ghost Recon Wildland Codes. NOTE: You...

Hello [H] - Looking to buy a MacBook Pro Budget (via PayPal CC, I'll cover fees) = $400 Shipping Zip Code = 11378 Min CPU = Core i5/i7 RAM, Hard Drive = Any (will eventually replace it) User upgradable RAM & Hard Drive I believe the 2014 models are the last user-upgradable models (please...

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There has been a lot of buzz lately about Intel's new Optane storage technology. If you are like me, the news on Optane has been a little bit confusing, and lacking on practical details. LegitReviews has done a good job with their Intel decoder rings (they must buy the Intel branded cereal)...