grrr at harddrives.

[omega-x]

my 80 GB seagate was clicking thismorning, and my computer was acting really strange cause of it. reboot. harddisk error.
unplug it, boot into something like knoppix...everything checks out.
HD back in, boots..clicks once and windows load freezes...
unplug again, plug back in, it boots fine....chkdsk found no errors.

so..thank god bestbuy had a deal on 160gb drives today (90 bucks AR). i went and got one.

hopefully massive solid state harddrives will hurry up...motorized stuff sucks for reliability....i hope i didnt lose any data.

 

[Stiletto One]

Motorized stuff works just fine, except when it doesn't. There are these things called Lemons.

Meantime, are you still within warranty? Seagate's usually pretty nice about RMAs.

 

[omega-x]

nope. its out of warranty...

who wants a dead 80 gig drive that *sorta* works? =D

 

[HHunt]

Originally posted by omega-x
nope. its out of warranty...

who wants a dead 80 gig drive that *sorta* works? =D

Gut it for magnets and shiny platters

 

[Stiletto One]

Sounds like a plan to me.

 

[omega-x]

i still find it weird it ended up working again tho...at least i can pull the data off before something worse happens to it.

maybe it didnt like being on for a month straight

 

[Stiletto One]

Originally posted by omega-x
maybe it didnt like being on for a month straight

One of the reasons that enterprise-targeted drives have longer warranties than consumer drives is the fact that servers rarely get shut down, while consumer PCs are always getting powered on and off.

You probably just got a bum drive; I routinely leave my computer on for weeks/months at a time.

 

[omega-x]

aye. tho i did have the HD power timeout at 5 hours of non-use. probably shoulda used one hour.

unless its actually better to have it NEVER spin down. i dunno.

 

[Stiletto One]

Originally posted by omega-x
unless its actually better to have it NEVER spin down. i dunno.

Well, yeah, it is.

It'll cost you a little bit more on the power bill: by little bit more, I mean a hard drive will use about one kilowatt-hour in the space of...oh...50 hours. Call it two days. And that's if it's a high-power-consumption SCSI drive.

 

[HHunt]

Originally posted by omega-x
aye. tho i did have the HD power timeout at 5 hours of non-use. probably shoulda used one hour.

unless its actually better to have it NEVER spin down. i dunno.

As I've understood it, "never" is not a bad idea. Spinup/spindown are harder on it than just keeping it going.
You need to keep it at a reasonable temperature, though.

 

[omega-x]

oh well. the problem i heard with this one, sounded like the head clicking. didnt sound like a head crash tho.
maybe it got stuck and thats why it worked once i pulled the power to it vs just the IDE cable.

 

[Monkey34]

I wouldnt use that HDD for anything. I had one do the same thing, bought a replacement(out of warr), saved what I could, and TRIED to reclaim the good portion for storage. I put it in as a slave with only a few files on it as a test, and it started it all over again after about 3 weeks of being "normal".
I now call it a PAPERWEIGHT

 

[omega-x]

"You need to keep it at a reasonable temperature, though"

it never got more than warm. it was in my antec's case HD cage. probably put this one in the one below that with the fan in it.

 

[HHunt]

Originally posted by omega-x
"You need to keep it at a reasonable temperature, though"

it never got more than warm. it was in my antec's case HD cage. probably put this one in the one below that with the fan in it.

Well, that's another possible cause of failure removed.
(Beats my free-air setup.)

 

[NleahciM]

Originally posted by omega-x
nope. its out of warranty...

who wants a dead 80 gig drive that *sorta* works? =D

1 find someone who fried their controller board for the same hard drive
2 sell yours to them
3 profit!

 

[omega-x]

lol.

 

[Stiletto One]

Originally posted by NleahciM
1 find someone who fried their controller board for the same hard drive
2 sell yours to them
3 profit!

Good point. If it's just a mechanical failure, you could probably find a buyer for the drive on eBay—functioning controller boards are scarce and in (modest) demand.