Find Date of Manufacture of External Hard Drives (DOM)

Quick Links:

• Toshiba Date Calc
  WD Warranty Check
  Seagate_date_code
• western_digital_model_number_decoder
  Seagate-date-code-
  Seagate-hdd-date-codes
  Storage-products-hdd Date Info
  

Using Serial Number: (unverified)

Using 1st 3 digits of the serial number:
Find 1st block of 3 digits in Serial#:
- M: Month production (1,2, ... Oct –> X, November –> Y, December –> Z)
- Y: Last digit of the year of production (eg. 0 for 2010, 4 for 2014, 5 for 2015)
- D: Day of production (1,2,...9,A,B,...) (eg. G –> 16)
E.g: - X1A = 10th November 2011

e.g: WX11A7317973

November, 2011, 1st

For WD Drives:

Exam the following:

(1) Determine drive’s warranty status by typing its serial number into WD’s online warranty checker:

https://westerndigital.secure.force.com/WarrantyCheck?lang=en

or

E.g:, warranty period will be 1, 2, 3, or 5 years, plus a few months.

(2) Look at the date codes on the Printed circuit board. Use a Torx 6 screwdriver.

e.g::
http://ep.yimg.com/ca/I/yhst-14437584971410_2269_336392 59

Note the “3709” on the PCB below pin #1 the Samsung SDRAM. This means: PCB was manufactured during the 37th week of 2009.

Now: examine markings on each of the chips:

Samsung SDRAM at location U2 - “940”
Marvell 88i9045 MCU at U5 - “0942”
SMOOTH chip at U1 - “0943”
Winbond “BIOS” IC at U12 - “0938”

*Chip markings are date codes in YWW or YYWW (Year / Week) format. E.g: SMOOTH chip was manufactured during the 43rd week of 2009.

From this we can infer: drive cannot have been manufactured before week 43 of 2009.

Toshiba:

Calculator!: https://www.data-medics.com/forum/toshiba-date-code-calculator-t1113.html

Per: http://forum.hddguru.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=32197

Model

Code:

MQ01ABB200
1234567890

1 : seem always "M" for 2.5'' drives (probably "M" is for "Mobile")
2: seem the generation / serie of drives (K for older drives ; Q for newer ones)
3 & 4: sub-family? ("01" seem very common)
5: A= SATA interface ; U = USB interface
6: ? seem always "B"
7: ? varies (...,B, C, D, ...)
8-10: three last positions = capacity in 10GB (in this example a 2 TB drive)

Code:

Y48 JP9F1T XR6 HDKFB02AZA01 T
MYJ ABCDE XYZ 123456789012 #

First block of 3 digits:
M: Month of production (1,2, ... October is X, November Y, December Z)
Y: Last digit of the year of production (eg. 0 for 2010, 4 for 2014, 5 for 2015)
J: Day of production (1,2,...9,A,B,...) (eg. G is for 16)

References:

WD Model Number Code

BackUp location

DiskStation NAS Disappears from Windows Explorer

per this article from Synology:I performed the following:

1. For DSM 6.2 22259 and later, please enable Enable Windows network discovery to allow file access via SMB under Control Panel > File Services > Advanced > WS-Discovery.

2. Under Control Panel > File Services > SMB/AFP/NFS tab > SMB section > Advanced tab, "Enable SMB 2 Lease”

3. Refresh Windows Client Network cache: As the LMB is elected by all computers, there are chances that the NAS is NOT elected as the LMB even if "Enable Local Master Browser" is ticked. Try to "Turn off network discovery" on the Windows PC, save it, and then turn it on again via Network and Sharing Center > Change Advanced Sharing Settings to clear the Windows cache.

Windows 10 Clean Up Shell Context Menu for File, Folder

Right click menu taking a long time to appear? Clean up menu’s that are taking time & obsolete on your system; these worked for me:

1. Remove NVIDIA “Run with Graphics” menu from context menu

2. Remove Other menus using ShellEx:

3. Remove “Gove access to” menu

Open RegEdit

        Go to : 

        HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Shell Extensions\Blocked

Create a new string value here named {f81e9010-6ea4-11ce-a7ff-00aa003ca9f6}.

4. Remove other annoying menus:

including:

"restore previous versions" :  {596AB062-B4D2-4215-9F74-E9109B0A8153}

"shared folder synchronization" : {6C467336-8281-4E60-8204-430CED96822D}

“Give access to” : {f81e9010-6ea4-11ce-a7ff-00aa003ca9f6}

All 3 disabled should look like:

5. Remove Folder Shell Menus, for example “Include in Library” ect ect

Open RegEdit

Browse to Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Folder\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Delete Keys that are not needed

Visual Studio 2017 IDE Editor and Refactor Enhancements

1. In Editor Object/Property Hierarchy Tool Tip

See https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=64

2.  Refactor Object Initialization:

See https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=103

3. Split String Literals on Enter!

See https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=187

4. Convert String.Format to String Interop (replace tokens with variable Names)

https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=243

5. Create new file from class or rename file to class name

https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=286

and https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=349

6. Filter Intellisense list on-demand, Show Intellisense on Del/BkSpc

https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=413

and https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=578

7. Find Reference Changes:

https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=693

8 Edit | “Go to” or Ctrl-T enhancements:

https://youtu.be/CZwNvU_Qtig?t=823

Productivity Apps December 2019 : Share Files, Type faster, Work faster

Some very cool new apps on the scene, share data between computer and phone seamlessly, track your work, type smarter, work smarter spend less time searching.

Check out All APPS here:

     https://zapier.com/blog/best-windows-productivity-software/
    

         Pushbullet

         Pushbullet connects your devices, m aking them feel like one.Send texts, files, and links to and from all your devices
        

        ClipBrd Chome Extension AND Android APP,

Share Clipboard between Phone and Computer!
        
        

         DittoClipboard (Clipboard Ring)

         Share Clipboard between muyltiple devices

        WinSplit Revolution 11.04 (Christa)

         Snap Windows Together

Tutorials: AWESOME!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdrH75ZAQIw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aW70A1Vdi0
        

        RescueTime (Christa)

         How much time are you spending in each site? Where am I working/spending the most time in my day?
        

        AutoHotKey (Christa)

         Automate Repetitive Computer Tasks as Macros

Get Count of items in a Google Drive Folder

So , you uploaded 100+ files to a Google Drive folder, you upload, you wait and now you want to confirm,. However, now there is no easy way to check that file count in the Google Folder,. While on Windows (or your OS of choice) there is a method to easily check the file count in said folder, in Google Drive folders there is not. Thus due to Google’s infinite wisdom of not supplying an OS equivalent Folder operation like “Count” for users, there are several “hacks” that we as users must perform in order to get the what one would think is an intrinsic property such as Folder Item Count,. Programmatically, this would be something like Folder.Items.Colunt or some other qualifier/property accessor.

Thus here we are, as users to implement a-round about way to access such property that should in a just world would simply be available from the Right Click / Context Menu!

Method 1:

• Right-click on a folder and select 'Download'. You'll often (but not always) see a count of the included files.
• Open a folder, scroll to the end of the list, type A to select all, choose 'More' and select 'Move to'. That will give you a total number of files, after which you can cancel the move.
• Control-click a folder to open in a new tab. The new tab will show the number of files, but only if there are less than 500.

Method 2 :

1. open the folder
2. repeatedly scroll down until you reach the end the folder. You can use the End key
3. select all the files using Shift+A
4. mouse over the "share" button to see the number of files: "share N items".

fast Copy Filter Folders / Exclude Folders

FastCopy: exclude directories and delete files unique to destination #

• To copy all files and folders on S: except for S:\foo\ and S:\bar\, check the Filter box and enter \foo\ ; \bar\ into the Exclude field. Omitting the leading backslash will skip all directories named "foo" or "bar", regardless of location.

• Options to review when enabling the filter: Option > Main Settings > Copy/Move Options > "Don't create empty directory, if 'Filter' is checked." and Option > Main Settings > Delete Options > "Try to delete directory, even if 'Filter' is checked."

• Delete files and folders unique to the destination by changing the operation mode in the dropdown box from the default "Diff (No overwrite)" to "Sync (Size/Date)"

• Appending a backslash to the target directory will result in a new directory being created therein.

• See Screen shot here