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expired Posted by Kitto • Oct 12, 2023
Oct 12, 2023 11:48 AM
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The tool "Victoria" lets you reset all sorts of things, do low level testing and rebuild a bad sector table.
I bought one once. Sounded like a can full of rocks. Smart data had been reset but that drive had either been dropped or ran in a server for more than a year or two.
I bought one once (not a great Russian freeware Victoria, but a used HDD). More than one, actually. They've all been great! The said 'tool Victoria' showed all the SMART intact, good enough for a used drive, did 'low level testing' but did not 'rebuild a bad sector table' which it can't and it's quite an illiterate way to describe that subtle process (see Victoria FAQ for details).
I know it's been a while.
I just opened my HC550 WUH721818ALN604 and put them in a NAS enclosure QNAP TR-004.
Unlike other 2 Exos X20 ST18000NM003D 18TB in ths same enclosure, both my 2 HC550s cannot be recognized. Is this something I can solve? Or how should I approach their support?
Thanks for any input.
I just opened my HC550 WUH721818ALN604 and put them in a NAS enclosure QNAP TR-004.
Unlike other 2 Exos X20 ST18000NM003D 18TB in ths same enclosure, both my 2 HC550s cannot be recognized. Is this something I can solve? Or how should I approach their support?
Thanks for any input.
Best of luck mate
Planning to run it for 10+ years (if it'll behave).
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I didn't buy from them for quite some time after one debacle involving a new drive that couldn't even be formatted, and then paying to send that back so they could replace it with an old worn out drive that sounded like it was a can full of rocks being shaken.
I still have WD drives that are so old that their size isn't relevant anymore.
I've gotten WD drives that lasted for 5-6+ years in a tivo dvr, with constant writing.
Now adays most drives seem ok. The amount of write cache on the drives and the amount of ram in computers significantly lessens the thrashing older drives could experience. I deal with enterprise storage and there seems to be odd issues with solidstate drives more than spinning ones (design/software flaws). Most of the spinning disks are failing because of age. And the current weird ones are usually some kind of software issue. Friggin synology validated a model of seagate drive… which i shucked… might have been a 4tb drive. i contacted synology and told them that the drives kept falling out of the raid group. I already had the firmware version available, and figured out what the problem was. (The head parking/sleep settings were too aggressive. Friggin synology makes it hard to get into the boot section of their OS so i had to do something or write a script that would do stuff with like smartd to manually set that each time… something like that.). Then synology tells me ohh well we validated version like C51 and not C54 which is not mentioned anywhere. So I am like cool… give me that version of the drive firmware you validated and I will burn that on my drives (with the understanding if I blew them up it was all me. I didnt know what kind of hardware changes could have been made between the versions.). They said no… they didnt have it. So working as a storage engineer for Dell at the time I contacted some seagate folks and was like hey give me that firmware. They did and i force burned that on the drives. They never fell out of the raid array again. None of them ever died. Running constantly in that 8 disk nas array. I would say the number of times you power them on and off and how much they are transported would have a bigger impact on drive longevity than the specific drives (barring something horribly wrong that should be easy to find). Thats my 27 cents worth.
Engineers would know that.