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Weaksauce
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- Dec 31, 2008
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Hey,
First of all I wanna thank you guys for setting up and participating in such an amazing forum! Truly, this is by far amongst the best forums I've seen out there. Can't believe it took me this long to stumble across it.
Okay, so I have an Western Digital 250 GB external harddrive. I've bought it last summer and since then I've been playing movies, music and various softwares right off the drive, and all my torrents, they download straight to that drive. Until 2 weeks ago when I heard that you'll eventually burn your drive if you overload it with performance.
I didn't completely stop after that, since I was dependent on some of the instructional videos I had there and since my internal/main harddrive was full (40 GB main drive). Although I did cut down on some of the external harddrive activities after being told to.
Before I move on to the 'crash', I'd like to point out that my new computer setup is being ordered next Monday so I will have completely new computer by next Friday hopefully. That's one reason (bad one) I kept using it as a regular drive, I figured the drive might last until then atleast. (dumb I know...)
So today, when I woke up to check on my fresh torrents I could hear that it was working 'harder' than before, but I didn't really bother doing anything about it. So I opened one of newly downloaded files (avi file) and it worked hard for few seconds, then a warning popped up saying file couldn't be detected. Shortly after, my torrent application started popping up messages, one after another, saying "Torrent can't be found for upload" (something in that manner), as if I never had the files that it was uploading a few seconds earlier. So I closed down the application and started checking other, older, files to see if the drive was ok. But half of my files were gone, totally disappeared! And some of the visible folders wouldn't open because they were "Undetectable".
I panicked ofcourse. 8 years of worth in that drive. But I settled down and after a few minutes I rebooted my computer. And what do you know, everything seemed to work fine again. But my external harddrive still makes a way louder noise than before, so I decided to close it down and put it aside until I get the new computer.
Yet, there is 250 GB that I want to transfer off that external drive, that means a lot of hardcore work for that drive. Does it matter? Is there anything else I can do?
I'll probably not use it after I've transferred my files, but I want to make sure that my files are safe first. Any Suggestions?
Thanks again, and Happy new year!
First of all I wanna thank you guys for setting up and participating in such an amazing forum! Truly, this is by far amongst the best forums I've seen out there. Can't believe it took me this long to stumble across it.
Okay, so I have an Western Digital 250 GB external harddrive. I've bought it last summer and since then I've been playing movies, music and various softwares right off the drive, and all my torrents, they download straight to that drive. Until 2 weeks ago when I heard that you'll eventually burn your drive if you overload it with performance.
I didn't completely stop after that, since I was dependent on some of the instructional videos I had there and since my internal/main harddrive was full (40 GB main drive). Although I did cut down on some of the external harddrive activities after being told to.
Before I move on to the 'crash', I'd like to point out that my new computer setup is being ordered next Monday so I will have completely new computer by next Friday hopefully. That's one reason (bad one) I kept using it as a regular drive, I figured the drive might last until then atleast. (dumb I know...)
So today, when I woke up to check on my fresh torrents I could hear that it was working 'harder' than before, but I didn't really bother doing anything about it. So I opened one of newly downloaded files (avi file) and it worked hard for few seconds, then a warning popped up saying file couldn't be detected. Shortly after, my torrent application started popping up messages, one after another, saying "Torrent can't be found for upload" (something in that manner), as if I never had the files that it was uploading a few seconds earlier. So I closed down the application and started checking other, older, files to see if the drive was ok. But half of my files were gone, totally disappeared! And some of the visible folders wouldn't open because they were "Undetectable".
I panicked ofcourse. 8 years of worth in that drive. But I settled down and after a few minutes I rebooted my computer. And what do you know, everything seemed to work fine again. But my external harddrive still makes a way louder noise than before, so I decided to close it down and put it aside until I get the new computer.
Yet, there is 250 GB that I want to transfer off that external drive, that means a lot of hardcore work for that drive. Does it matter? Is there anything else I can do?
I'll probably not use it after I've transferred my files, but I want to make sure that my files are safe first. Any Suggestions?
Thanks again, and Happy new year!