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2008-01-21 10:21:54
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6750
So, my rather-recently built PC system has fallen to its knees already...

Earlier today, my main 'storage' drive, - the Western Digital 750Gb SATA2 AAKS drive,- crashed. One day it was fine, and nearing 50% capacity, and the next it had began to make strange clicking noises... and the next thing... dead. Such a brief life it led; calling it a day after barely 4 months of slightly above-average usage. The drive will be RMA'd by Western Digital, as it is obviously still covered under warranty... but as for recovering the immense amount of lost data- we'll see what software/specialist solutions exist.

After reading around for a while it does seem that hard-drives are the most temperamental and 'hope you get lucky' part of a computer build. I guess I've been ridiculously lucky up til now- I've had several storage SATA2 drives, as well as a raid0 set-up (which I am running on now), and have never had any crashes. Seems my lucky streak has finally ended!

Anyone else had grief from pesky hard-drives / storage?

Last edited by Uzique (2008-01-21 10:24:22)

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2008-01-21 10:26:42
kylef
Gone
+1,352|6773|N. Ireland
2 x 250GB WD RAID 0

Crashed; just a week after the system was built. (Dead drive...immediate failure, no warning) Been running it now again for a few months and all is fine (WD RMA is very nice, swift and easy!)
2008-01-21 10:29:23
avman633
Member
+116|6644
Luckily, none of my hard drives of the computers I own have had a failure. *Knocks on Wood*
Hope you get your data back
2008-01-21 10:30:17
RDMC
Enemy Wheelbarrow Spotted..!!
+736|6844|Area 51
Bought a new HD along with a new PC, long time ago and they actually send me a broken HD. Thing made a rattling noise, weird beeps and wouldnt story anything. Thats about the only problem I've had with HD's
2008-01-21 10:31:57
G3|Genius
Pope of BF2s
+355|6905|Sea to globally-cooled sea
i had an ancient 30 gb drive that kicked the bucket, but it had been operational for years.  It had all my setups and VCDs on it, that's all.
2008-01-21 10:36:47
FN1HookEm
Member
+1|6880|DFW Texas
Yes i have had the same thing happen to me ( 2 x 150GB WD Raptors RAID 0) crashed. Took them both to Best Buy and had them do a full recovery ($160 a drive) and put it all back together and havent had any more troubles.

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2008-01-21 10:49:30
CrazeD
Member
+368|6952|Maine

Uzique wrote:

Anyone else had grief from pesky hard-drives / storage?
Yes.

I had a drive die in less than a month, due to a power outage. I had many hours of website data lost, which pissed me off to no end. I do regular backups but I just hadn't backed the particular files up for a few days.

So basically, the power flickered and as I was rebooting my PC it flickered again (and stayed off) so I went to bed. The next morning, Windows wouldn't boot (continuously restarted after loading). So, tried safe mode and yadda yadda. Eventually I got into Windows and noticed my second partition was GONE! Along with that, only roughly half the drive was functioning. It is a 250GB drive and I could only see about 100GB of space. My second partition was unheard of.

I looked at the S.M.A.R.T. tables and sure enough, tons of errors. I tried every data recovering software I could find (even very good ones) and... nothing. I got the drive RMA'ed, but no data was recovered. The partition table was corrupt, pretty much no possible way to recover the data at that point.

So I've learned from that and do backups religiously now.
2008-01-21 11:23:54
']['error
Banned
+630|6923|The Netherlands
1 x 160 GB with windows etc
1 x 320 GB for downloads & back-up of my useraccount (containing a copy of my windows account with "mydocuments, pictures, etc.."  )

So it isn't a real problem if one drive crashes, I always have a back-up of al my stuff
2008-01-21 12:16:01
Freezer7Pro
I don't come here a lot anymore.
+1,447|6477|Winland

Yeah, I once bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 9 SATA HDD, of 120GB. It was my first SATA drive. After about two months, it started slowing down and getting read/write errors until finally getting so slow that it became unusable. It took about two weeks of continous copying to regain the data I had on it, totalling about 40GB.
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