Hard drive dead

[Bigguy]

Ya know what I hate. (It's my own fault) I hate it when you use a single drive for years without backing up a single byte on that drive and then you lose the drive. It happened without warning and real quick. One minute all was good the next, it was makin noise and whirring and crap. I lost pretty much everything.

Went out and bought a new drive today. I bought a 3 tb seagate barracuda. The last drive I had was 1 tb and it sucked when I lost that one. This one is definitely gettin backed up. What I really hate is losin all those damn passwords. I shoulda wrote them down.

 

[Bigguy]

Well, I also now have an external hard drive plugged into usb. So things will be backed up now I will promise you that. Not goin through this again. Some passwords I know and other I have changed to many times to remember. Firefox did all the rememberin for me, lol

 

[Anton Chigurh]

Ya know what I hate. (It's my own fault) I hate it when you use a single drive for years without backing up a single byte on that drive and then you lose the drive. It happened without warning and real quick. One minute all was good the next, it was makin noise and whirring and crap. I lost pretty much everything.

Went out and bought a new drive today. I bought a 3 tb seagate barracuda. The last drive I had was 1 tb and it sucked when I lost that one. This one is definitely gettin backed up. What I really hate is losin all those damn passwords. I shoulda wrote them down.

You didn't have to lose anything. Any half decent computer shop could have salvaged the entire image off that dead HD.

But.... You should have gone solid state for your new drive. I did three years ago and never looked back.

 

[doubt]

I did three years ago and never looked back.

They are good. My PC boots in less then 20 seconds.

 

[Solidus]

Stick a USB in your router and put important files there, super easy network drive.

 

[Bigguy]

I still have the drive and I think I can get some stuff off it...I think. I do want to grab up a SSD for sure. For now though I will have to stick with what I have.

 

[Anton Chigurh]

They are good. My PC boots in less then 20 seconds.

Immediate bootup, no heat, no noise.... No 'hunting.' Everything faster, happens NOW.

 

[we_are_borg]

To look if your broken hdd can be recovered try “hiren’s boot cd” https://www.hiren.info/ or http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ be careful with the images they have tools on them that can wipe or destroy a hdd. But they can fix partitions or recover files you can see what is wrong with a hdd.

 

[Bigguy]

I have that program on disk, thanks. I never thought about it til you mentioned it. Maybe there is hope.

 

[vbgamer45]

I have all my hard drives in raid 1 so if one fails you can recover it and rebuild the raid to a new drive. This has helped me multiple times over the years.
Backups help for all critical files make sure you have keep them in multiple areas not in the same location as well.

 

[Anton Chigurh]

Yep...but they fail like all drives do. I've got 3 sitting here on a shelf that decided to bite the dust suddenly. One was 1 year old (Dell replaced and didn't want the old one back), 1 was slightly more than 2 years old and the third around 3 1/2 years old.

My goodness, that's really bad luck you're having with those. I haven't had one fail yet, many years running them.

The biggest downfall to them is if you want LARGE amounts of storage from them (in a singular drive format, not an internal/external RAID /NAS setup)... be prepared to open your wallet to release LARGE amounts of cash.

The price point on them is trending wayyyyy down and I anticipate it continuing to do so.

Would be a bit surprised if the old-type mechanical platter hard disk drives are even made anymore, in 10 years or so.

 

[zappaDPJ]

I've never had an SSD failure (I have about 15-20 of all sizes) but I have had one go a little weird on me. I could read to it and write to it but I couldn't bulk copy the files from it. It start reading off at full tilt but got progressively slower until it was taking many minutes to read a single file.

 

[Anton Chigurh]

I've never had an SSD failure (I have about 15-20 of all sizes) but I have had one go a little weird on me. I could read to it and write to it but I couldn't bulk copy the files from it. It start reading off at full tilt but got progressively slower until it was taking many minutes to read a single file.

Yeah... I can't imagine a SSD failing. Power failures and spikes might hurt 'em, but haven't seen it personally.

 

[doubt]

The added benefit of the patter drives... they make a really neat looking tech clock (after they do die)

Don't forget about their excellent magnets!

 

[Matthew S]

When I was a comms tech I had seen a few SSDs die. They were used as OS and voicemail storage in PBXs. They came from a variety of brands. I suspect the issue was prolonged exposure to a hot environment. Just bought an Intel branded M.2 SSD for my new machine. Hopefully it's a good one!

 

[Anton Chigurh]

Price still has a BIG factor in what to purchase for many people. Get the right tool for the job.

You pay a huge premium for that "Samsung" name on these SSDs. It's really not a valid comparison shop.

But as I said, the price point is dropping rapidly and will continue to do so, even on the premium brand-names.

I suspect the issue was prolonged exposure to a hot environment.

Heat is the enemy of all semiconductors.

 

[zappaDPJ]

and the other (for some strange reason) will allow small transfers of data but if you try to do a mass copy you end up with an error.

That's pretty much what happened to one of mine. I wiped/formatted it and it appears to be usable again but I don't feel inclined to use it for anything important.

 

[Joeychgo]

New ssd coming out

https://www.techradar.com/news/this-100tb-ssd-is-the-worlds-largest-and-its-available-now