failing hard drives

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 7:00 am

what's up with so many failing hard drives? so many posts lately have been about dead hard drives...

my laptop hd died a few days ago too. replacement came from the warranty...and no data was on it that i needed...but it's like a PCA disease right now!!!! i'm getting paranoid about my main rig...time to back it up!

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 8:09 am

yea, for real. I have been putting tons of stuff onto dvd lately.

Greg

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 12:00 pm

I've seen WAY too many Maxtors fail lately....

Executioner · Post by **Executioner** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 1:40 pm

LOL, and I'm still using my DeathStar 40 gig drive that I bought back in 2001 that still works.

About 3 months ago, one of my SCSI drives died on me at boot. Glad I had a Ghost image. The SCSI drive had a 5 year warranty, and it had only 3 weeks left LOL. Got another replacement in the mail a week later.

Absolut Talent · Post by **Absolut Talent** » Thu Jun 03, 2004 2:34 pm

Originally posted by FlyingPenguin
I've seen WAY too many Maxtors fail lately....

NOOOOooooooooooo

/me covers his ears and sits in a corner shaking back and forth uncontrollably because all his drives are maxtors

zandor · Post by **zandor** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:58 pm

Here's my record:
~6 years back: Work rig blows a 2GB disk.
1.5 years ago: 5.5yo SCSI in my server dies.
About a year ago: 40GB Deathstar in my Dell @ work dies.
Shortly thereafter: Get a replacement (another Deathstar) from Dell.
Shortly after that: 3Ware 2-channel ATA raid controller & 2x WD 120GB "SE" from CDW
Last winter sometime: Refurb FC-AL drive in my array goes. 1/10 ain't bad for refurbs.
Couple weeks ago: 1 of the WDs croaks.
Today: Replacement Death star goes bye-bye

So two weeks ago I had 3 drives in my work rig- a mirrored pair of 120s and a 40 GB "scratch" drive.
Now I'm down to one. Now I understand when 5.5yo Western Digital SCSIs and refurb FC-AL Cheetahs go bye-bye, but what's up w/ all these 1 yo IDEs going out?

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:03 pm

i shouldn't say this or i'll doom myself...but the laptop drive that puked on me a few days ago was the only personal drive ever to fail me. i've always had a mixture of brands in my desktops...quantum, maxtor, western digital, seagate....and always ok...on 24/7. now i've cursed myself of course.

sandeep · Post by **sandeep** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:28 pm

b-man1, you're not the only one. I've only had one harddrive fail (although it failed, then so did the replacement).

However, I tend to swap out old disks before they can die on me. I'm in the process of wanting to consolidate my hdd space right now actually. I've got a 120, 80 and a 20. I wanna replace them with a pair of 160s, 8meg cache. never used the 8meg cache before

On a related note, i keep hearing about how harddrive makers a) improve the technology in making the disks, but then b) make them cheaper to keep up with consumer demand. So it kinda works out to the disks lasting just as long as they used to. kinda defeats the purpose of improving the techs (at least on the consumer side.)

MK888 · Post by **MK888** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:57 pm

Lost too much data in my time..... all my critical machines now have at least RAID1. Worth the extra $$$$. Does not protect from corruption however, so I ghost for that.

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Fri Jun 04, 2004 10:33 pm

i hear ya mk888...with RAID you're just moving the risk down the chain to the controller rather than the hard drives themselves. never truly safe, but it all helps!