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#1 duke_Qa

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Posted 01 December 2009 - 08:43 PM

Came back to my home-office room today, and I heard a clock ticking, badly, like some two-year old trying to keep track of time but getting distracted by the cat.
Alas, there is no clock in my computer room, and I pretty much realized instantly what the problem was. Funnily enough the disk was still working, and it was my D: disk which merely has some music and a ton of 3d-tuts and textures and generic stuff that I ironically cut out from the c: disk a few months back.

So I figured. "oh well, better try to copy something out then". Bad move. Broke the camel's back with a log of lumber. Right now its sitting on my desk and awaiting a trip down to the local pc-shop-nerds tomorrow, then off to the post office if the web-store is quick enough to accept my complaint.

Now I've got a few generic theories on hard-disk crashes.
1: A disk either dies within the first 2-3 months or it "lasts forever"(ie. until you let it dust down because you get a new pc a few years later). this one I ordered in the end of august, so it worked for 3.04 months, prolly just to throw filth at my theory, but too lazy to break it totally.
2: if you play MP3's from a disk, its 75% more likely to die. Could just be bad luck on my part, but i feel that 2-3 of my last crashes was the mp3-drive. luckily i don't have my mp3 on the OS disk.

Once I've tortured it for a few more hours with the local IT dudes in a last attempt to get some vital information out of it, I'll send it off to the post office in a mediocre cardboard package that costs $15 to send. Then it will be put in the bottom of a mailbag below a ton of cheap toys produced by starving chinese children. Then sent over the cold mountains of Dovre, home of the mountain king. Then received by a apathic It-dude around the capitol, which will unwrap a dented and frosted hard-drive, give it a whirl, listen to the child inside trying to keep time, then shrug and throw it into a dumpster for incineration.


I have no clue of how many disks I've lost the last ten years, but I feel the average is around one every other year. Which is in my opinion WAY TOO OFTEN. most likely going to order a pair of Samsung Spinpoint f1 1TB now, and put them into Raid 1. Never really used Raid before, but I'm sick and tired of losing shit every time a disk dies. So its time to spend 100$ extra on an extra disk and tell the gods of disk-destruction to go fornicate some other poor dude's stored up information.


so in addition to wailing about the annoyances of crashing disks, I also would like to hear your experiences with RAID. How is it done? My most educated guess would be some bios stuff, but for all i know it would be integrated in OS's these days.

Edited by duke_Qa, 01 December 2009 - 08:47 PM.

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#2 Beowulf

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Posted 01 December 2009 - 10:47 PM

Before you bring it to anyone, put the drive in your freezer for a couple hours then hook it back up and copy your data. That should do it.
Oh yes, I said put your hard drive in the freezer.

[EDIT] I use Western Digital hard drives and I've never had a problem at all. Had my 200GB for three years and my 160GB for five.

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#3 Ash

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Posted 01 December 2009 - 11:07 PM

Bad luck, Duke... really sucks... :( doesn't seem like you were taxing the drives too heavily...

But yeah, freezing the drive works surprisingly well. It's one of those odd ones that shouldn't work but does. [Offtopic]Same as using furniture polish to clean dirty CDs/DVDs...you'd think it'd wreck them but it doesn't.

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Posted 01 December 2009 - 11:35 PM

Toothpaste is good on CD's too.
Check your BIOS for RAID settings

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