How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 2

Jun 6, 2023 | HDD

In this two-part article on “How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive,” we have already looked at what bad sectors are and what causes them. We will now look at how your hard drive deals with them and what you can do to minimize the effect of bad sectors. How...

How to Deal with Bad Sectors on Your Hard Drive – Part 1

May 30, 2023 | HDD

Bad sectors are one of the most common problems that affect hard drives. They can cause data loss and performance degradation. But what are bad sectors and how can you prevent or fix them? Drive Heads and Media: A Precise System A hard drive contains two important...

Locating Drive Detected Issues on DA Portal: Features of DA Drive Analyzer

Apr 18, 2023 | Drive Detected Issues

Drive detected issues are the drive health metrics collected and reported by the drive itself. This would be similar to the alerts or measurements shown by a car like its speed, fuel levels, or tire pressure. A drive has sensors to track its activities and whether...

Locating Host Detected Issues on DA Portal: Features of DA Drive Analyzer

Apr 11, 2023 | Host Detected Issues

In the previous article, we have seen how host detected issues are different from drive detected issues. Host detected issues are issues such as long latency write count, and read retry count, that the host notices about how the drive is responding or performing,...