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A hard drive is a device for permanent or long-term storage in computers.

Hard drives are non-volatile random-access storage devices. They can be in the form of magnetic disks or solid-state flash memory. Data stored on hard drives will remain stored after a computer is powered off. With advances in technology in the last few years, solid-state drives, which offer significantly better performance, are becoming more affordable. Solid-state drives (SSDs) offer reliability benefits over traditional drives as they are more shock-resistant due to there being no moving parts.

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How can I find and edit my external hard-drive's .fseventsd folder?

While changing my 'file directory' preferences on Vuze, I accidentally created a folder in the .fseventsd-folder on my Seagate external hard-drive. I can't even find the .fseventsd-folder using search Spotlight, in fact the only way I can see this…
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Make An External Hard Drive Behave Like OneDrive

I've started using OneDrive on my MacBook and (for those who don't know how it works) I have a folder on my laptop that is synced with the one in the cloud whenever I have an internet connection. Once the files are synced, I am allowed to remove…
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Why do system information and du show drastically different numbers

I'm getting messages that I'm running out of disk space. "About this mac" > Storage shows this: Note that it says I have 172 GB available, over a third of the disk. Assuming the messages about running out of disk space were correct I did a df and…
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Find out what process is using my HDD

I know it's the spotlight indexing process, but it's been killing my HDD for the last few days and will not stop. The CPU usage is rather low but fs_usage shows that the mds process is doing something the whole time. I'v tried force quitting it with…
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External HD partition table destroyed

I was trying to create bootable USB media in Boot Camp Assistant. Had a small USB plugged in and my HDD. Upon formatting I think my partition table screwed up. I had 2 partitions. 1.2TB NTFS and 0.8TB exFAT. Immediately I ran diskutil and gpt which…
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Can I put a MBP (2012)'s hard drive into a Lenovo laptop and continue using MacOS?

My 15inch 2012MBP has just died. The screen is gone and I want to keep using my old settings but I dont have money to buy a new MB right now. So I'm just wondering what happen if I put my old Apple Hard drive into another laptop that is not a mac.…
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The volume primary SSD could not be repaired

My machine is not starting after progress bar. I'm trying to find the problem by booting in single user mode. I tried /sbin/fsck -fy It showed me Missing directory record (id = 33899953) The volume Primary SSD could not be repaired
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Is repeatedly reading a drive harmful?

I have an external hard drive that was making an odd sound, and I wanted it to stop. I found out that navigating the contents of the HD in the Finder would make it stop temporarily. I set up a shell geeklet that ran ls /Volumes/ExtraStorage and that…
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"Other" storage in Mac 10.9

I have a Macbook Pro, 10.9 with 500GB of hard drive storage and 4GB of RAM. When I access the Utility app "System Information", this is what I got. There is a yellow block called "Other". What does "other" storage mean in this context?
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Stress test a disk

I have a 1Gig disk that's about 3 years old. The other day it went south, with OSX telling me that it could not repair it and leaving it in read only mode. I was able to salvage everything on it. Now I reformatted it and it is happy again. Or is…
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How to prevent "Incorrect block count for file" file system errors from occurring?

On our 10.7 Lion installation, 3 out of 9 drives are repeatedly suffering from Incorrect block count for file errors when running a diskutil repairVolume command. The drives are having capacities of 3TB and 4TB. The drives are attached via a…
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Lost Space in APFS Disk

i have a strange problem with my 250GB disk : As you can see there is only 14GB free, whereas I use only : First Partition -> 13GB Second Partition -> 61GB Total -> 74GB So there is about 170GB lost. With an other software I see that : We can see…
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Prevent disk reordering on boot

I have 3 physical drives in my Mac Pro with OSX 10.6.4. Occasionally after rebooting the machine, the disk numbering changes such that the /dev/disk# does not reference the same drive as it did before the reboot. Example /dev/disk0 -> 64GB SSD…
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Accidentally deleted disk, how to restore data?

While installing bootcamp I accidentally deleted (clean) the entire disk, now my entire data is gone. I saved it as it was in an image on an external disk. Disk utility won't mount the file and even when I mount it from command line, it won't repair…
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new 2tb hd not useable

I have a new hard drive which I can't seem to access correctly. It is a 2TB lacie drive and when I connect it I only see ~400MB. This is the output from fdisk: What is wrong and how can I proceed?
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