What is the Best Way to Detect Bad Sectors in a RAID?

Jul 5, 2023 | RAID

Hard drives commonly encounter the issue of bad sectors, which can lead to the loss of data and a decline in performance. There are several methods to detect bad sectors in a RAID. Through Read Commands One method to find bad sectors is to simply read from the drive...

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...

Predicting Problems in HDDs and SSDs

May 19, 2023 | HDD, SSD

Hard disk drives (HDDs) and solid-state drives (SSDs) are essential components of modern computers for storing and retrieving data for various applications. However, these devices are not immune to failures, which can lead to data loss, performance degradation, or...

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,...