drive failure

So I have a Penguin Relion 1900 1U rack mounted server running CentOS 7 that recently had a hard disk failure. It had 4 hard drives configured in RAID 6. To replace the failed HDD, I powered off the machine, swapped the failed one with a new drive of the same size (4TB) and powered on the...

My 3TB D drive crashed my PC. Rebooted and it took a long time to start but it was fine, outside of my desktop being on the D. Turned it off to remove and recover the D and MB wouldn't post. Just nothing, so my Sys eng. husband troubleshot it and nothing seemed to reliably help. He ended up...

Hi There, Yesterday I got a BSOD with the error DPC_Watchdog_Violation. My PC then restarted and it prompted me to install a boot device. I restarted the machine and went into the BIOS where I found that my boot drive was no longer showing, it's a Samsung 970 Pro 512 GB NVMe SSD bought about...

I Had my pc open to work on it and my windows 10 SSD PSU cable got unplugged. currently, I can access the windows 10 SSD and all its files just fine by booting into a different windows 7 partition on another SSD but it won't boot. It says drive inaccessible when I try. Also after fiddling with...

I have an Asus FX505D, bought 3 months ago (new), running the latest update of windows 10. I have a 256GB SSD for storage and a single, 16GB RAM stick. My problem was, that out of nowhere, OneNote threw up a memory error message, asking me to restart. When I did, I was faced with the win10...

I've had a RAID 1 setup on 2 seagate 3TB drives going for about 3 months now without an issue until today. Today, my computer restarted unexpectedly when I stepped away for a few minutes (possibly unrelated). Soon after I noticed my raid drive wasn't showing up. I expected one of the drives had...

I have a Western Digital 1TB external HDD. While doing some very simple "housekeeping" I've decided to run a chkdsk (on Windows 10 x64). Well... I shouldn't have done that! Now I'm on a mess with lots of files. First, chkdsk reported that the drive had filesystem errors. Without continuing...

Hi and happy holidays! I recently upgraded large parts of my computer for Black Friday. With these changes came the addition of two new ssds, one of which replaced my boot drive. I cloned the old c: (ssd) and everything worked fine. For a day. Then this morning I turned on my computer and it...

The PC I use is my first build, worked perfectly for a couple years now, but recently, after a power outage (which i think was caused by a transformer explosion based on the loud bang outside), Half of the time when I turn my PC on it won't recognize my boot drive, and most of the time when it...

Hi Is it normal to receive used/refurbished SSD under replacement with following S.M.A.R.T data? I got my SSD 850 Pro256 GB replaced under warranty due to I/O errors and following S.M.A.R.T data Health : 99% Relocated Sector Count : 5 Power-On Hours : 8000 Power-On Count : 1600 Wear Levelling...

Hello I recently decided to overclock my i5. I got it right up to 4.6 and decided that it was enough. I have a corsair h100i v2 so I should have adequate cooling. When I went to do a stress test (Intel burn out) it pretty much shot up to almost 85c in about 10 seconds. However in normal use it...

I am looking at the ASRock 970M PRO3 Micro ATX for an FX6300 build. I would like two 8GB sticks. Partspicker says it supports DDR3-1066 / 1333 / 1600 / 1800 / 1866 / 2100 / 2400. The ASRock list of supported memory only goes to 2000 MHz and that's only 1-2 GB sized sticks? Am I overlooking...