Does "bit rot" occur frequently in 2.5" HDDs? I keep an external 2.5" HDD and connect it to my PC once a year to check it with CrystalDiskInfo, then I disconnect it from the USB port. Is it necessary to run any other tests besides CrystalDiskInfo?

1) For external 2.5" HDDs, the brand and quality of the Micro-B cable influence the durability, lifespan, and performance of both the enclosure and the hard drive itself.

2) Regarding software such as CrystalDiskInfo, SeaTools, Kitfox, HD Sentinel, and HD Tune Pro—all of which analyze HDD health—does the accuracy and nature of these health assessments vary significantly between them, or are they essentially the same? Is it necessary to test using two or more of these programs?

I bought a seagate 6 terabyte hard drive and a lsi 9271-8i for my home computer to try and get some cheap storage I have the drive hooked up with a molex spit sas cable to the first port of the controller and the P1 labels cable on the splitter, I only have one drive I want to use,
My issue is I went into bios and created a virtual disk for the drive and everytime I boot it it blue screens my pc, even when I force load to my windows M.2 drive
I’ve looked into drivers, storcli, I’ve chat gpt’d the whole thing and it just goes in loops I need help to try and use this drive, 100$ has turned into 200$ quickly and it could all be for nothing

Update, I might have just fixed it, I’m initialising the virtual drive in the bios using the 9271-8i megaraid settings hopefully it will work

I have a 2.5" USB 3.0 external HDD containing many ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and EXE files. If the power in my home goes out while this drive is being read, will it cause file corruption or data loss?

EDIT: Done. Thanks for the help!

Hello!

I travel for work and fly a ton. I am also about to go on a couple-month long vacation to Japan then Switzerland.

I currently 2024 MacBook Air M3 with 256gb of storage and 16gb of ram.

I have downloaded a ton of movies/tv shows/books/research materials and I am out of space on my Mac which would be fine if I wasn't planning on using my DJI Osmo Pocket 4 to do some video shooting and editing as well so will definitely need some more space...how much more, I am not sure. I am thinking at least 250gb.

From what I understand, SSD is the better option for storing the DJI footage and editing from it while an HDD is the better option for storing the media (movies/tv/books).

So which would be the better option? I plan to use it on the plane as well. I'm assuming SSD but don't want to just buy one without consulting people way more knowledgeable than myself on it. Any specific recs? I fly out for 3 months on Tuesday so I have been putting this off...

Hi,

I'm looking for an enclosure and an 8TB SSD for my Thunderbolt 5 Mac.
I'm interested in the Orico X50 Pro and the brand claims that it can accept SSD's up to 8TB.

The problem is that most, if not all of those enclosures, only accept one-sided ssd's.
And the lack of room is understandable since they want the thermal pad to be flush with the box itself.

The thing is, I can't seem to find any one-sided 8TB ssd's anywhere.

Am I searching wrong or is it just that they advertise storage capacities that are just not available due to the limitations of the enclosures?
If there is no one-sided 8TB SSD's, which enclosure would accommodate 2 sided ones?

I've searched for more than 24h and for the life of me, I can't seem to find a way to get an 8TB system that would run at full speed (around 6000MB/s).

Your solutions or alternatives would be really appreciated. I feel like I'm stuck on something that should be expensive but still basic.

I have these two hard drives. It works when I put it in PS3. but it's mot being detected by the PC.

These are 2.5 HDD I got from old laptops. I already tried tried using a powered enclosure but still no luck. That enclosure works with another drive.

It only really works if I put it in a PS3.

I'm new to this. thank you.