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I've researched online and Anandtech and still need some guidance. I've run autonuke (default) option of Darik's Boot and Nuke and now want to copy some data to a hard drive. The data is copied elsewhere, this is for redundancy on a used HDD. I plan to monitor SMART stats but just want to park...

Yesterday I had to do an entire PC disassembly just to find that it's actually my monitor's HDMI input that is hosed. Sys is an old Asus Z87 Pro board Anyway, after I did all this, I replugged my drives, and one one of them is an old Seagate Barra 7000.11 which now SOMETIMES in BIOS throws a...

Whenever I buy a new SSD I always check the SMART data in a Ubuntu live desktop. For a brand new SSD the SMART [Power on Count] section has always been [1]. Yesterday I bought a Samsung SSD for the first time (850 evo 250gb) and the [Power on Count] was [2]. Did I buy a used SSD? The package...