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    WD HD fails, then replacement drive fails

    Doing DR I see soooooooooooo many of these, WD Greens are complete trash. Firmware failures all over the place, heads failures, etc. argh.
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    Seagate halting production of 7200rpm notebook hard drives.

    no point run 7200rpm when you can run a hybrid drive with flash on it + 5400rpm for space + energy efficiency.
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    Formatting a HD to extend its life?

    well because of platters not being 100% identical servo for each platter is generated individually now. as for article on what they are using to write servo, it is difficult to come by because manufacturers work extra hard to try to keep a lot of their functions a secret...
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    Formatting a HD to extend its life?

    http://hddscan.com/doc/HDD_Tracks_and_Zones.html article by an acquaintance; very well written, this guy knows what hes talking about.
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    recovering extrernal hard drive

    what kind of enclosure/manufacturer? what is the drive inside (make, model etc) does your bios see the drive at least? (I would avoid booting in to windows with it plugged in if you can for now) google MHDD, throw it on a floppy, cd or flash stick and run that on it, dos based HDD...
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    Formatting a HD to extend its life?

    Drives use embedded servo nowadays (weaved throughout all of the platters in between the user tracks/sectors), also only WD and samsung (well, samsung HDD division was bought out by seagate) only those two manufacturers still use the type of servo writing you mentioned anymore. Other...
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    Laptop Drive

    you will also potentially have to take file permissions, its not to bad, if it starts giving you messages about not having permission, etc. reply and myself or someone can likely give you the steps to take permissions.
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    Storage HDD went straight into messy chkdsk

    What kind of 3TB? WD, Seagate? (works in data recovery field as an engineer) We have been seeing tooooons of 3TB they are dropping like flies. CHKDSK running on a non boot drive is bad news, stopping it midway wont make it better, but it wont make it much worse, either, TBH. (edit: CHKDSK...
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    Moving to Denver, question about cooling

    It sounds like my best bet to account for the less efficient heat transfer of the air is to decrease overall ambient temperature, and to direct lower temperature into the intake if possible. Thanks for the kind words about the move, while I will greatly miss all of my family and friends here...
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    Moving to Denver, question about cooling

    Yeah, I had taken a look at that website previously and pretty much decided that I wouldn't see a big difference, but figured that I would ask on here knowing that there had to be people living their that could give me their real life account. No worries about the "people in Denver have...
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    Moving to Denver, question about cooling

    Alright, so I am moving to Denver soon and I am just wondering if anyone has experienced what kind of effect being at 5000ft has on the cooling system of your PC All my temps are well below any critical levels already, and I am pretty confident it will still stay well under, but I am a bit...
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    Del Taco>Chipolte?

    Go to Long Beach, by CSULB. Eat at Great Mex. Never want anything else, ever. Carne Asada California Burrito add pico and sour cream (if you like em)
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    Strikeforce's Heavyweight Grand Prix starts TODAY! ( 2/12/11 )

    I feel like it's already been said but not "put together" Fedor lost for two major reason imo: 1) As mentioned, he hasn't changed his strategy much. 2) Every single one of those fighters (including silva) have likely ritually watched every single one of fedors fights multiple times...
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    critical hard drive failure

    Professional Data recovery tech here: WD desktop drive has a head alignment that has to be managed; once it is opened it's pretty much FUBAR, especially outside of a clean room. pay ~$3000 now, since it has been opened, or throw it in the trash.
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    Anandtech Member Case Gallery!

    Built this system for a friend last weekend: Specs:Athlon X6 (6 Core Processor)@ 3.51GHZ Per core 16GB G-Skill DDR3 1600 9-9-9-24 Asus Crosshair Formula IV SB850 Motherboard Geforce 580GTX Blackops Edition 1.5GB Corsair Force 60GB SSD WD Black Edition 1.5TB 64MB cache...
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    EVGA Geforce GTX 580 BO edition, downclocking with 2 monitors?

    Alright that explains it then; weird that out of all the posts I have seen NO ONE mentioned that they where running different resolutions. Seems like a pretty easy fix...just get matching monitors?
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    EVGA Geforce GTX 580 BO edition, downclocking with 2 monitors?

    both are running 1920x1080, so that could be why it is actually downclocking, if your theory is correct. it is clocking all the way down, 51Mhz Core, temps reports ~37C with fan speed@ 40% (customer profile) I have not OCED the card any more then it's pre-OC (SC speed on the BO edition)...
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    EVGA Geforce GTX 580 BO edition, downclocking with 2 monitors?

    So I just recently built this system for a friend, and it has only 1 problem I am trying to resolve; which I *believe* is a monitor issue, but I noticed something interesting while diagnosing the monitor issue. This 580 I have is properly downclocking at the desktop, even with two monitors...
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    Most common errors found in mainstream movies?

    The Maxtor Slim drives used in live free or die hard. 1) Those drives haven't been in production since early 2000s (over 5 years since the movie released) 2) They are running without a lid/modified clear lid. You don't put valuable data you are trying to steal (or don't want lost/stolen)...
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    I wouldn't worry too much, I don't believe it is flat our toxic, but it probably isn't great to have in your digestive system/blood stream.
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    It is very important nowadays that the heads are able to change flying height at will. They use a Piezo electric motor on the HGA (Head-gimbal Assembly) to adjust flying height. The heads will move closer for writing, and further for reading. approx. flying height is ~10 atoms.
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    The drive should have no problem turning on when open; likely has some kind of circuit damage (could be from ESD, or something) Also, I wouldn't really recommend giving the platters to children (young at least) the lubricant they use isn't exactly child friendly (especially to little ones who...
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    N40P nooooo hahaha
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    Here we go again. I need HDD gurus help!

    Are you sure the drive they replaced the old one with is new? could be a refurb. disks can have random performance, some may perform at "full potential" and some may be bad eggs, and never fail but never perform what they are 100% capable of, this is the unfortunate side effect of a...
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    It's enough. Trust me. I do data recovery, I see drives that have bent spindles from this every month. This isn't a "if" it is a fact. You can punch as many numbers in as you want it doesn't change the fact that drives fail when they are put in this orientation because of bent spindles...
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    I don't believe that it has to do with a more powerful force, but an uneven force. Drives are designed with servo data on the disks that are a position error signal. This error signal can account for a certain amount of NRRO (Non Repeatable Run Out), but over the course of time the spindle...
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    AT World of Warcraft Thread (Cataclysm, Where do you play, General BS and all that)

    I am not sure why you want gold out of circulation, but there are tons of money sinks, enchantments for every piece of gear (you will have several sets of gear), gems for the same, potions, flasks, mounts, professions.
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    COCD is bothering me can I erase or reset SMART value.

    Hello, Those software are for data recovery, not SMART wiping. The products used to wipe SMART cost ~10000USD. Regards,
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    Hard drive positioning issues?

    Actually that orientation is horrible for the drives, the only reason data centers do it is because it is vastly more space efficient, and they change out the drives regularly anyways (not to mention they are nested, so chances of RAID failure are VERY low) If the drive spins at...
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    External hard drive no longer recognized on PC

    Good to hear success! It really is quite common that the USB controllers fail, they are very cheap. I agree with you that the data is often more important then getting a new drive on warranty, most of my customer have no issues voiding their warranty, most are not particularly in a...
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    *Fixed* Better to Spin down HD or keep them running

    The other problem is that a lot of drives are now programmed in the firmware to park the heads when not used for "x" amount of time. Especially any of the new 5400RPM "Eco" or "green" drives. You can tell because if you leave a drive on for maybe a month straight, and check the SMART you will...
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    COCD is bothering me can I erase or reset SMART value.

    We do physical recovery as well. For software I favor: http://www.r-studio.com/ http://www.runtime.org/data-recovery-software.htm http://www.ufsexplorer.com/ http://www.winhex.com/winhex/ For Hard Drive Imaging for Data Recovery...
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    *Fixed* Better to Spin down HD or keep them running

    Actually, heads get stuck to platters quite often. Western Digital Scorpios are especially bad about this. Has something to do with the lubricant they use on the platters is my hypothesis. Slider likes to get ripped off of the HSA, causing the heads to park under the ramp, and scrape away...
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    COCD is bothering me can I erase or reset SMART value.

    Sorry for the delay. Actually, for the record. The firmware for HDD IS on the platters. SMART is stored in the firmware, so to wipe smart you need to have a software, or hardware tool that can send the proper commands to the drive...
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    Cops mistake water nozzle for gun...

    4:21 is daylight here in cali, doesnt get dark until ~5:15.
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    Hell's soundtrack

    straight banana phone. over and over for all eternity.
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    Cops mistake water nozzle for gun...

    Hey all, I grew up with Zerby's younger brother, Chris. I met Doug in middle school on numerous occasions, and he was a stand up guy. Big time partier, but a really good guy. He did not deserve this, that is for sure. I am familiar with the area this occurred, and...
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    External hard drive no longer recognized on PC

    If the data is valuable, I highly recommend having a DR company take a look at it. You can PM me about that if interested. If you want to go the DIY route, get a knoppix disc and run DDrescue on the drive, I recommend pulling the drive out of the enclosure, this will void the...
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    COCD is bothering me can I erase or reset SMART value.

    Your in glendale? drive down to orange county and I can wipe the SMART for you. If you really need to.
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    Bad hard drive circuit board

    You already have a matching board, you HAVE to transfer the ROM. It doesn't work like the old days unfortunately.
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