I see that this technology is in modern HDDs, to prevent damage to the data:
Landing zones and load/unload technology
Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia
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I see that this technology is in modern HDDs, to prevent damage to the data:
Landing zones and load/unload technology
Hard disk drive failure - Wikipedia
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What do you think of Crystal Disk Info vs. Power Shell ?
CrystalDiskInfo – Crystal Dew World
I like it. I plays a tone when my SSD goes down 1%, and shows all the S.M.A.R.T. info
After 4.25 years of just cutting the power (no graceful park of the heads), I ran a "chkdsk /x /r" on both of these 1TBs.
One of them was fine . . . The other one had 20KB in "bad sectors"
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I've been cutting the power on these two HDs for the past 4 years, and haven't noticed anything.
I think I can give them an extra 20 seconds to power off properly, though, now that I understand...
No worries about the re/write heads . . . just data loss, if not complete due to power loss . . . cool - thanks!
It always says "Success" in SyncBackPro . . . I always successfully "eject" them with USB Disk Ejector . . . so, all the data should be written properly.
Any idea what happens with the needle: ...
I use SynBackPro to make two "mirror" copies of one folder on my C: to two 1 TB hard drives: Western Digital Black WD1003FZEX
WD Black
I have the hard drives on a power strip. I power them on...