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Disk has read errors but SMART says PASSED in c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
[–] rpollost@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

A friend of mine was in a similar-ish circumstance.
He was using a 18TB Helium HDD with an external SATA to USB converter (with a power brick)
While writing data to it, it would randomly freeze mid-transfer.
It wouldn't properly disconnect from the operating system either, it would just randomly freeze mid-transfer, and resume automatically. And the same freeze would happen while reading as well.
This issue disappeared when I told him to use a real PC with a proper PSU.

Before you replace the drive,

  1. try changing the SATA cable.
  2. If that doesn't fix it, if you're using a daisy chained SATA power cable, make sure to connect your HDD to the first hop(from the PSU) of that cable, and disconnect any devices being powered by the rest of the chain. The first hop is electrically most stable.
  3. And if that doesn't fix it, try changing the SATA power cable.
  4. And if that doesn't fix it, and if you're using a modular PSU, try connecting your SATA power cable to a different SATA power port on your PSU.
  5. And if that doesn't fix it, try connecting it to a different "known working" PC, and redo steps 1-4 as needed.

If all of these fail, then yeah, replace the drive.

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[Guide] for scriptbin.works archivists (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by rpollost@lemmy.ml to c/datahoarder@lemmy.ml
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If you're archiving a scriptbin.works script url(or a user profile url) to the wbm or elsewhere, append ?__termsofaccessagree=y to it. This skips directly to the actual script, so the actual script is captured.
Important: The creator of scriptbin also told me to NOT use that suffix when "normally" sharing script urls, as that will be problematic for scriptbin.
In other words, ONLY use ?__termsofaccessagree=y suffix for archiving purposes.
Now that you know this, if someone else asks you about it, DON'T just comment "Append ?__termsofaccessagree=y " and walk away.
Be a good steward of the internet and also mention the aforementioned warning along with your comment.
To reiterate the warning, DO NOT use that suffix for regular normal sharing of scriptbin urls. That suffix is only for archiving purposes.

Have fun archiving.
Cheers!