Month: April 2021

WD5000LPCX Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5000LPCX hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

Solid State Disk for a desktop computer

Question: ?????? ??Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Super User. ? ?? Closed 6 years ago. ???? ??Improve this question ?? ? I am…

NVME failure from Sata Power Cable ?

Question: Ok First off this is major Human error. I already feel like a dolt so please do not remind me of my own failure. I had a RAID ProRaid…

HDDs

Western Digital WD5000HHTZ

WD5000HHTZ Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5000HHTZ hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

ZFS – HDD performance strongly varies in 3-way-mirror among vendors

Question: Prerequisite We have a FreeNAS System with a Pool consiting of 5x”3-way-mirror”. The disks per mirror are from different vendors but with the same “on-paper” performace-characteristics. Pool-Layout: Tank0 ?mirror-0…

How long should it take for a hard drive to give out?

Question: I have gone through 3 hard drives, the 3rd one marks today. First lasted 1 year, other 2 have ended up lasting 1-2 months. Is this a coincidence? The…

HDDs

Western Digital WD5000BUDT

WD5000BUDT Western Digital 2.5″ hard drive with a storage capacity of 500GB and featuring a SATA interface. All information about the Western Digital WD5000BUDT hard disk drive: technical parameters, failure…

How does Synology Hybrid RAID work?

Question: I’m not looking for what Synology Hybrid RAID (SHR) allows the user to do, but rather, what is the concept that SHR uses to allow you combine disks of…