Questions tagged [hard-drive]
Questions about hard disks' performance, issues, tips, and software.
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Openstack: VM disk I/O Tunning
In OpenStack, I am facing I/O performance issues. I am using virtio-scsi driver support in the quest. Currently, I am getting below mentioned performance.
WRITE: bw=37.2MiB/s (39.1MB/s), 37.2MiB/s-37....
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Relatively new WD Red Pro yielding ATA status: 41 (DRDY ERR), error: 40 (UNC ) on FreeBSD 12.2
I am running a TrueNAS server based on FreeBSD 12.2. I migrated the storage to 10 TB WD Red Pro. They're running for 42 days now.
Out of the sudden, during a ZFS scrub, one of the disks yielded 5 ...
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Connecting SCA-2 Ultra320 disk to some controller using some cable
This is "blast from the past" type question.
I need to make a backup of data stored on SCSI disk used in a large industrial machine.
That machine takes SCSI Ultra320 drives like Cheetah 10K....
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Windows Disk Cluster for Hyper-V Failover Cluster
Looking for design assistance.
Typically, I use a 2 node SAN disk cluster running CentOS and DRBD for high availability. I will then connect the hypervisor(s) via iSCSI; sometimes KVM/QEMU, sometimes ...
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After resizing Azure Linux VM, data in the attached datadisk is lost. Why?
Here is the general information :
I created and attached standard SSD datadisk on the creation of the ubuntu VM.
Aplication files were on the datadisk.
I mounted datadisk following this tutorial ...
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Partition of mdadm raid0 array passed through to win10 20H2 via virto driver is suddenly lost. How can I figure out why?
I have checked the logs. System has been working for a month then suddenly they could not see the drive on network. It is a linux file server with a virtual windows on top of it ... Virtual windows ...
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Clone disk with multiple partitions using dd
I have used dd before to clone hard drive's but I'm now attempting to clone an entire hard drive consisting of 3 partitions to another drive.
My partitions are named nvme0n1p1 to 3, I tried leaving ...
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Poor proxmox pveperf performance on a mdadm raid 1
When running pveperf on a Debian + Proxmox PowerEdge R540 server that uses two hard drive in a raid 1 configuration (using mdadm), I get very low performances in the number of FSYNCS/SECOND:
$ sudo ...
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Failed to Partition a 10TB HD?
Before I tried to partition a 10TB HDD again, parted saw it:
# parted /dev/sdb
(parted) print list
Model: ATA ST10000NM0016-1T (scsi)
Disk /dev/...
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ssh connection refused for Google Cloud Platform instance
I am trying to connect to my Google Cloud VM instance through SSH. I didn't have any problem before I mounted a new 500GB zonal persistent disk and even then I was able to ssh and format the disk and ...
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Find errors on HDD, RAID, SSD, NVME with one program
Is there a software that can automatically find errors and failed disks, on any of these types of storage:
mechanical HDD
flash-storage like USB-sticks or SD-cards
RAID
SSD
NVME
I'm working with a ...
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S.M.A.R.T spin retry count
Monitoring the spin retry count of a 2-months-old HDD I don't fully trust (noise), I wonder:
If "current" is 134, why is "worst" indicated as 100 and "threshold" as 30? ...
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About IOPS of a RAID5 disk array without cache
we are using a 530-8i RAID adapter,which is none-cache supported, on a Lenovo ThinkSystem SR590 server.And we have 4 HDD(600GB/10K RPM/SAS) in the array.
I read an article about calculating the disk/...
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Trying to erase disk content by filling all bits with “1”, not “0”
I have 2 old 160GB WD drives that do not have "Security-Delete" option when querying with hdparm.
I understand the current acceptance of the mechanism overwriting entire disks with zeros.
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How can I block bad sectors of HDD forever? [closed]
How can I specifically determine and block bad sectors that is likely to fail in the future?
Can anyone suggest a 3rd party freeware?
I was using a freeware called Victoria. Does it help? And there ...
