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.

Same answer as the last time you posted https://www.reddit.com/r/datarecovery/comments/186yhtt/how_do_i_repair_this_corrupted_chunk_of_data/

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?

It’s definitely not the recent ZFS bug that others mentioned here. Simply to the fact that when corruption occurs due to that bug it cannot be identified, the filesystem is consistent.

https://discourse.practicalzfs.com/t/recurring-permanent-errors-in-healthy-zpool/919/5 is this relevant perhaps?

Amazing website. I’m unable to load the last 10 messages. It says it loads them sucessfully but it does nothing.

please uninstall handbrake and forget it exists

I just hope you can find these toshibas at a reasonable price lol. Looks good.

but I was wondering if it’s genuine

Nothing extraordinary, looks genuine. These white ones are OEM drives.

Also, I read on the web that is more noisy that the average hard drive, so I was expecting to hear a noisy motor, but actually the motor itself is very quiet, I think quieter than the other drives I own, but the drive it’s very noisy when it read or write data (it looks like there is a hamster wheel inside). Is it normal?

Motors are mostly silent, yes. It is normal.

Also, not on this unit, but on the other one that I’m testing right now, I noticed a small dent on the enclosure.

If the dent was caused by pressure that’s fine. If the dent was caused by an impact it’s not fine.

as far it works properly I should be fine?

if you crack your head but then you work properly, it’s fine-ish, I guess?

“NAS” in the name doesn’t matter. If it’s CMR and specced for 24/7 work it’s fine.

I can find same HD in amazon for less and those in amazon still expensive.

you sure?