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Is it a good idea to use a hard drive that was made for use in NAS as a desktop system drive? I am particularly concerned about error recovery. The following post claims that NAS drives do not try as ...
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How can I verify that data files copied from an optical data disc (such as a CD or DVD) to a hard disk are identical? This can easily be done for data files copied from one HDD to another using ...
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I have a new Samsung 970 Evo which is very likely to spoil the data. There was massive file damage AND NTFS structure damage twice, a week after each time after I installed a new OS onto it. Digital ...
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To start off, I don't really use Excel, but I was given this task. We are integrating two stores (CRUNCH and FRESH) into our MAIN system, each with their own client formatting. Many clients are shared ...
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I need to wipe some used hard drives before using them in case they contain malware. Is it safe to remove the host protected area? Is the HPA used to store spare sectors? It is only 1 MB but might ...
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I am creating a backup script which uses tar, encrypts it with gpg and then sends the output through ssh to an offsite host. I am now wondering weather and how I can verify that all of the data is ...
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I copied a large directory from one volume to another (using rsync) and subsequently wanted to check whether the copy was indeed correct to verify the integrity of the data. To avoid the lengthy file ...
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Disclosed real issue: I use a program called youtube-dl to download and archive videos from websites like YouTube and Twitch. To verify the integrity of the downloads, I download the same video twice ...
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I often use youtube-dl to download videos. As far as I know, there is no data integrity verfication built in to youtube-dl, so what I do to verify that a video isn't corrupted in some way after ...
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The binary DVD *.isos for installing the Red Hat OS, which I downloaded from https://access.redhat.com/downloads/, I checked, has the same SHA-256 reported in the webpage. But when I boot the ...
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Well, I am dealing with an HDD with some unreallocated bad sectors for the 2nd time (the first time was a dying HDD, but now this other HDD is just one with "caution" state according to ...
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We've been using ffmpeg/ffprobe for checking video file integrity. If ffmpeg returns anything in its stderr, we'd know something's not right. For some videos, an error like this will show up in the ...
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For a given Windows release published by Microsoft, how can I cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of the .iso file that I downloaded before I copy it onto a USB drive and attempt ...
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I have many files tagged with a CRC checksum on their filename on a Windows machine. Example: filename_[000000].extension I know there are a lot of options for Linux based systems to check/calculate ...
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For a given software release published by Mozilla, how can I cryptographically verify the authenticity and integrity of the file that I downloaded before I execute it to install that program? Today I ...
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