Hard Drive died

[macleod]

I am sure this has been brought up elsewhere, but I wonder how often folks's hard drives that are used for backuping movies and all stuff video related die.

Last night I came home from work, fired up the pc and my 20 gig Maxtor (got it free after rebates 2 years ago for black friday - aka day afte rthanksgiving sale at Compusa). I have dont a number of backups and VHS to DVD conversions, where I have ripped, encoded, and burned on that drive ONLY what feels like a billion times. I guess that after 2 years of 4 gig add, 4 gig delete, the hard drive just died. Anyone else ever have a drive die on them.

Probably a little food for thought to those folks that let "C:" be their rip and burn drive....

[gitreel]

Not very often.

I have three hard drives. All of them are used for video.

They are still running. Two of them are about four years old.

[DVD_Ripper]

Ditto.... one is about 4 years old the other about 2 and both are still screaming.

Suprising for a Maxtor.

[indolikaa]

I've got one that is reporting a SMART warning for quite awhile now, and it still works fine. It's four years old and still going strong.

No bad luck here.

[DVD_Ripper]

I've got one that is reporting a SMART warning for quite awhile now, and it still works fine. It's four years old and still going strong.

No bad luck here.

Ya know what ... same here.. .but when I run the DOS level diags (advanced) it doesn't report any errors. And I kinda wish it did .... still under warrantee.

[ViRaL1]

A SMART error doesn't mean that anything is bad or has failed, it just means that there's (supposedly) some impending failure.

[indolikaa]

I just reconfigured it for data archiving. It stores all my rental DVD rips in XviD format for future distribution.

[size=small]Disclaimer: Tell yoda313 that was a joke, please.[/size]

[macleod]

ummmmmm! I'm telling on ya indolikka. You know it is against the rules to copy dvd rentals and stuff :P :P :P

Of course, if you are going to act like a true newbie, you will need to reply to this saying that everyone does it, I am on a high moral trip and I am trying to be better than you, and thats what this site is all about, etc.


You know, I just read over my initial post on this thread and good Lord, my typing and thought process sucks. I guess reading some of my posts are like mental masturbation or something

I am going to take the hard drive out and slap it in another machine and see if it really is "dead".

I am a little surpised by the maxtor's performance. Oh well, it was essentially free. If it is trully dead, I'll just go out and get another one.

[luvvbuzz]

mine failed when i came back from holiday, i started the pc up it wouldnt boot into windows, i tried for an hour swapping leads round in case it was that to no avail. in the end i taspped the side of the drive a few times with a small hammer, fired it back up and hey presto. the disc inside must have got stuck or something when it cooled down last time i switched it off. works fine now.

[gitreel]

That is very dangerous. You could have a head crash

[redwudz]

I've had 3 HD's die in the last 5 years, all Maxtors. Nothing against Maxtors, just what I have been using.

Twp of them had scrambled info and I couldn't access the drives. One was taken out by the PS, along with the MB. In all cases, Maxtor exchanged the drives, and no problem with the replacements. These were on different computers. One in a RAID 0 setup.

Being that I backed up all important files, no real losses.

[luvvbuzz]

That is very dangerous. You could have a head crash

its ok i was wearing a crash helmet at the time.

[macleod]

in the end i taspped the side of the drive a few times

aka = the fonzie move

[luvvbuzz]

hey!

[BobV]

It must be dumb luck, but I've about 12 Hard drives over the past 10 years and I've never had one fail.

[sacajaweeda]

I've had a few Maxtors die on me. Still using a couple Maxtors I've got but I've been buying Western Digital lately. Whenever a Maxtor craps out on me I send it back for a replacement if it's still under warranty and I sell the one they send back to me on eBay to recover some of the cost of the replacement WD. So far no probs with the WD drives, but then they're not even two years old yet.

[gitreel]

Wd makes a really good hard drive. Never a bit of problems.

[ViRaL1]

The only drive I ever had DIE on me was a 4yo Maxtor 11GB. No biggie as it had been transported in less than ideal conditions (from L.A. to Chicago). I HAVE had a WD drive start getting errors and I need to (hopefully before the end of the month) RMA it back to WD for replacement. My array is unprotected.

[SIRCOOKS]

i live with this problem, let me tell you something, if your comp can still pick up the drive or no not meaning, when you plug it in it will show in my computer, do not format the drive, or do anything else to it...i haad this problem with a 20 gig maxtor a few months back, i have since up graded my comp, and whn i plugged the drive in, in my raid configuratioon, it just picked up, beleive me i was shocked as hell...i got everything off then formatted...do not throw the thing away, just put it soemwhere cool where it can't fall...leave it for a while, when i say a while i mean 2 or 3 months or even more, then you may wanna try a program by runtime called "getdataback", its great in this situation..holla back

[macleod]

actually with my particular situation, the drive is read in BIOS, shows that it failed and does NOT appear in my computer. I wont throw it away. I'll let it sit and then dump it into another box to see what happens.

[SIRCOOKS]

correct, the drive i spoke about, did the same thing, just keep it lying around for a while

[CoasterCreator]

well it sounds like there was not many things of severe importance but if there was ( like in mine situation) some very important pictures of mine I stuck it in a glad bag and in the freezer ..It just turned on long enought to transfer the data to another HD

[gitreel]

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling the ide channel?

[studtrooper]

I've had one 40gb Maxtor die on me and a Raid-0 array go screwy, thats about it. It sucks... the HDD is the most cucial part of out PCs, but it is also the most falible...