This will depend on the relative placement of these PCs

I assume hard drives are not considered “physical” for some reason?

What’s the model of the flash drive?

You’re concerned about 20GBs a day, really?

I am sure that it’s not because of another program or Windows updates.

there is literally no other way

TRIM doesn’t write to the drive. It’s a completely different operation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l-6qWaZpVQ

I’d stop and ask on r/datarecovery, consider professional recovery. Might be a mechanical issue.

Cloning, but only with proper software. ddrescue or HDDSuperClone. Can’t be done under Windows due to Windows limitations.

by “bad block” you mean a read error? what does smart say?

197 pending sectors, 5 reallocated

yes, this drive is cooked

Newegg never changes…

This should be only like 25GB (at 256kbps). Have multiple HDDs/SSDs with copies. Backup to cloud. Don’t bother with optical media unless you have a BluRay writer already.

does it spin up? isn’t showing up where?

I trust MB SATA more in terms of reliability. HBAs tend to overheat too.

However, if RAID topology allows, I’d try to spread the drives such that either one of MB or HBA failing completely would not bring the array down (RAID10 with 1 HBA, or RAID5/6 with 2 HBAs).

the expensive stress is what people responsible for this are experiencing right now

that’s not a very hard workload

idk I just have no intention of watching a video that doesn’t tell me what it is in the title

That’s expected for 4k synchronous writes. They need to complete one by one and you’re writing to a hard drive.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

New > Used > Recertified > Refurbished

WD > Toshiba > Seagate

Based on that, no I would not.

Anything is fine as long as it’s CMR. Always check the datasheet thoroughly.