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How to select which disks are allowed to sleep?
There is an option "Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible" in Mac OS X's preferences:
Is it possible to configure which disks Mac OS X can put into a sleepy state? For example, I want to ...
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Powerful external hard disk health checker on Mac?
Is there any powerful program in Mac to check the health status - mainly bad sectors - of an external (USB) hard disk, and to recover them?
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Mac Hard Drive Testing Tools and SMART Analysis
How good is SMART (Self Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) for really finding and predicting drive problems for regular hard drives and now, for SSDs.
From what I understand, different ...
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Time-Machin back-up through IP
Is it possible to use "Time-Machine" with an external hard-drive through an IP?
I have an external HD connected to a Raspberry Pi and I have installed SSH. What I am hoping to achieve is this:
I ...
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How to pinpoint cause of disk I/O errors
I am getting (seemingly random) disk I/O errors on my bootdrive. At first I thought it was caused by a faulty hard drive, but now I've replaced it and I still get those errors.
These are the steps I ...
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What terminal command or program can list an SSD's Power On Hours?
I'm looking to script using the unix shell the retrieval of SSD (and HDD) data that disk utility shows in the information window.
I'm immediately interested in the Power On Hours and Power Cycle, ...
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Can't unmount the disk during Mac OS X install
My MacBook started to get really slow recently. Now it can’t start up properly anymore. All I see is the Apple logo and then it shuts down. I've tried rebooting multiple times, but I've seen the same ...
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Mac Mini with two Western Digital external Hard Drives in RAID
I upgraded to Mountain Lion and I am trying to set up a 2 TB and 3 TB hard drive set in a RAID so it will look like a 5 TB drive. I did it on 10.7 and it was fine but every time I try to set it up on ...
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How to recover data from unreadable hard drive?
I have an 80GB Fujitsu 2.5" hard drive that died about a day ago and had nothing backed up. Is it possible to retrieve data off of it somehow.
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Best file system for an external hard drive sharing between OS X and Windows
I would like to buy an external hard drive that I'll use on Mac OS X and on Windows, but I don't know the best file system for it (reading and writing on the both system).
I know I can used FAT32 ...
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Sandboxing prl_disp_service to prevent disk waking
So there is prl_disp_service, a Parallels 7 background service that periodically wakes the internal hard drive in my Macbook Pro although it`s unmounted most of the time since I boot from an SSD I ...
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Moving Drives Between Macs
I'm considering buying a new MacBook Pro after today's refresh, and I am wondering if OS X handles simply pulling a drive out of one MacBook Pro and putting it in another. I know that in the Windows ...
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MacBook Pro disk failure
Just a few months ago, I bought the latest 2011 MacBook Pro. Now, a few months later, I have a problem. It seems like my notebook is rejecting my hard drive (which is an SSD).
How it all began: ...
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Failing hard drive – Will it affect the integrity of my data?
I have a failing hard drive on my current MacBook Pro (it is having a symptom that I previously had on a failing hard drive on a MacBook – clicking drive noises).
I'm backing up my hard drive quite ...
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Mac surface scan tool
I've had an SDcard lose its partition table, so I want to run a surface scan of the sdcard to make sure it's physically okay. Can you suggest a disk surface scan tool that runs on the Mac? Free, ...
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How can I copy a file from a CD when Finder reports error code -36?
I have a CD. I copied the whole CD to another location - except for one file. When trying to copy that particular file, I get following error:
The Finder can't complete the operation because some ...
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Check a Mac partition's installed OS
I'm managing a lot of Macs and each machines has several partitions with different OS versions.
I would like to create a script that I could run to do an inventory of all partitions of all machines ...
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Should I Move The Swap Location For My Mac From The SSD To The Larger HDD In My Laptop?
Should I move the swap location for my Mac from the SSD to the larger HDD in my laptop?
Background information: I've heard some suggestions in the general PC/Windows world that if you have an SSD for ...
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Can I convert a RAID 0 set to a RAID 5 set?
Can I convert a RAID 0 set to a RAID 5 set in a Mac Pro? I currently have two 500GB drives in a RAID 0 set. I want to add a third drive and convert it to a RAID 5 set. Is it possible to do this ...
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External hard drive is snapping/making weird sounds in sleeping mode
I have an external hard drive connected to macbook. When I am listening to music and my mac is not in sleeping mode everything is fine, but after 15 min. when display is turning off and music is still ...
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Mac and Windows dual boot problem
I have a software problem with my Mac laptop:
I had made a division in the hard drive some time ago and installed Windows in the other partition using Bootcamp software.
But now I think that the ...
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Is a corrupted HD a sign of something ominous for the hardware?
The Verify Disk functionality of the Disk Utility reports that my HD is corrupted. I fixed the problem using the startup CD but what does that mean for the health of my HDD?
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Checking number of reallocated sectors of HDD through Disk Utility, Mac OS X
My MacBook was purchased in 2008. Yesterday I checked the number of reallocated sectors of the hard drive using Disk Utility. It showed there were no reallocated sectors. That seems strange since I ...
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Macbook's harddrive free space changes seemingly randomly
Over the last few days my hard drive has gone from a few GB of free space, to zero KB, absolutely full. I then deleted about 1GB of files, and now the free space has gone down to 640MB, and then went ...
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How can I add some SSD goodness to my MBP?
I have a decently modern (late-2010) Macbook Pro, with a 7200 RPM 500GB HD. I need this much space, but I'd like to have an SSD for compiling code, running the OS, and running games.
Is there any way ...
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Hard drive read only access with Mac
I have an external usb hard drive that I used to connect on my old PC laptop. There are some files I created with the laptop on this hard drive.
Now, I can only read those files with my Mac notebook
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Will a cloned hard drive function exactly as the original?
If I buy a new hard drive and clone my original onto it (using Carbon Copy Cloner or something similar), will my computer function exactly the same as it did before? Will things like licensed programs ...
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Do Macs need to be defragmented?
I don't see any application to defragment my Mac (running OS X).
Is defragmenting not necessary for Mac OS X? If so, why not?
