Questions tagged [hard-drive]
Questions about hard disks' performance, issues, tips, and software.
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Storage suddenly unavailable on Proxmox VE
I noticed this morning some of my VMs had issues, after inspecting I realised it was one of my drives that was having issues.
As you can see it has this "?" symbol and shows the error no ...
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Two identical HGST 10 TB drives report different usable capacities — can this be fixed? [duplicate]
I have two hard drives of the same model: HGST HUH721010AL5200 (10TB SAS).
Both are declared as 10TB by the manufacturer, but the reported usable sizes differ:
Drive A: 9.095 TB visible
Drive B: 8....
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Capacity of Seagate Exos X12 12 TB drive 0.01% larger than SFF-8447 and documentation
I have a Seagate Exos X12 ST12000NM0127 12TB SATA drive. It has a documented "Formatted capacity" of 12 000 GB (12 TB), "Guaranteed sectors" 23 437 770 752 for 512 bytes logical ...
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smartctl gave an unintelligible error
SMART Self-test log structure revision number 1
No self-tests have been logged. [To run self-tests, use: smartctl -t]
SMART Selective self-test log data structure revision number 1
SPAN ...
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MariaDB Server Disk Full Err28 Pointing to /tmp/#sql-temptable-468-19b-2.MAI - Where Do I Find This, What Might Have Caused The Issue
Thank you for looking at my question,
We have a MariaDB MySQL database server version 10.6.21
It is reporting Fatal Error - SQL select table_schema,table_name from information_schema.views where ...
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How to avoid file corruption after an electrical power failure [closed]
Sometimes files on our RHEL 7.9 host are zero after a power failure.
Is there is a way to avoid this issue?
Here is an example of the files after an OS power-off:
The following files exist under /opt/...
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How to deal with large disks when choosing a filesystem?
We are using 15TB disks on our RHEL 8.6 Linux servers. These disks are for the HDFS filesystem. Compared to other disks like 4TB or 8TB, we are noticing some degradation in the logs of the datanode. ...
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Clone encrypted disk to another disk but less size in Linux
I've encrypted 1Tb NVMe disk where OS installed.
I have another 1Tb NVMe disk but a bit less capacity (931G vs 953,9G).
I want to make a bootable clone of the first disk.
Which options I have?
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What would be the best approach to using a regular dekstop HD in a NAS system?
I was given a present of a 4-bay D-Link NAS system. I then put a 1 TB regular desktop Hard Drive. Just as I was becoming attached to the thing the HD failed. I know there is a specific NAS hard drive ...
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disk + how to check data transfer speed
we have DELL machines with Seagate disks
according to Seagate data transfer rate is 260 MBps speed - particularly for read or write
Understanding the 260 MBps Metric:
MBps stands for Megabytes per ...
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Using dd to clone disk with LUKS encryption
We want to copy the contents of one disk to another, but with the complication that the source disk has the data in a LUKS encrypted partition, and the destination disk will not use LUKS.
Normally we ...
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smartctl + Steps to Verify an SED with smartctl command
A Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) is a type of hard drive or solid-state drive (HDD or SSD) that has built-in hardware encryption capabilities. This means that the drive automatically encrypts and ...
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Disk quota full for one user with (barely) no files in the folder
I just encountered a strange thing on my host.
I have a cluster with some 60 users. I setup disk quota for each of them (say, 10GB). Today I got a complaint email from a user that he cannot create any ...
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Windows Server 2025 can't add disk to storage pool, physical sector size not supported by the storage pool
I'm trying to create a storage pool on a new instance of Windows Server 2025. I have two 4TB Hard drives (disk drives). The UI never shows my drives despite me reformatting them multiple times to try ...
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Need arguments for VMware SCSI disk with serial number
Recently I had a problem with a SLES15 server that did not update the GRUB bootloader as expected (and the server failed to boot).
As it turned out the boot disk (GPT partitioned) had no UUID assigned,...
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