Hard drive crashing, Personal PC is dying Options

[skline]

I can hear the hard drive clunking so i guess its time to pull it and do a reload. Mirroring is great and all but its still going to be a pain. See you all later.

[bd1308]

if you need anything, pm me. I have software and stuff for Hard drives.....

[redshift]

Is this the drive you bought on Ebay?

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Awwww.... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif)

[skline]

Well, its back up and running. I had a 40 gig drive in the computer and there was a power failure earlier while I was working and it killed the old drive. Now I have a new 60 gig as my C drive and added an extra 120 gig drive. Everything was backed up so there was no loss. Its just a pain having to reload and configure everything again. Its been over a year with no problems.

[opera guy]

1.5TB (6x250 gig)keeps me quite happy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif)

never had a drive fail on me, i only buy WesternDIgital and Maxtor drives though

[Pnambic]

2 out of 2 Maxtor drives have failed on me. Both were still under warranty, but its worth an extra few dollars to me to buy a drive that won't fail as easily. Like Scott said, its a real pain to rebuild, even when you are backed up. I've only had one Western Digital drive fail on me, out of 4 or so I guess, never had a Fujitsu drive fail on me (still have 540 MB drive from about '93 running strong in an old linux box), never had an IBM drive fail on me.

[bd1308]

okay the deal is HEAT. I've been through around 20 or 30 drives over the 12 years of computing...starting from a RLL Seagate Drive....buy some drive coolers for your drives(the kind that bolt to the bottom of the drive--cools the underside electronics and servos), i have for the last few years and as long as they stay cool, problems are reduced. Mine are very cool to the touch. I've been studying the temp-failure relationship for a bit....just my 2 cents

[bd1308]

just as a addition to my earlier post, search Google for HDDTemperature. It's a freeware(maybe shareware program) that will tell you drive temperature...drives hate to be around 55C, but the lower--the better.

[McMark]

QUOTE (opera guy @ Feb 21 2005, 06:01 PM)

1.5TB (6x250 gig)keeps me quite happy (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif) never had a drive fail on me, i only buy WesternDIgital and Maxtor drives though

What in the world do you store on 1.5 TB?! Nobody needs THAT much porn! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/lol2.gif)

[bd1308]

whats that? H-drive

[Alison Baker]

Scotty Boy.you have tooo much Britney porn on your PC.........Git it' gon' (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/drunk.gif)

[opera guy]

QUOTE (McMark @ Feb 21 2005, 06:36 PM)

QUOTE (opera guy @ Feb 21 2005, 06:01 PM) 1.5TB (6x250 gig)keeps me quite happy  :o never had a drive fail on me, i only buy WesternDIgital and Maxtor drives though What in the world do you store on 1.5 TB?! Nobody needs THAT much porn! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/lol2.gif)

its my computer, technically, bc i bought the parts and built it... im not the only one in the house.... although, wife does encourage to "download" certain genre of motion picture.

seriously, the computer i had before this one had a full TB, it had maybe 200 gigs of regular movie and smut on it... the rest of the drives were all applications. there were lots of expensive app's. my house was broken into and they stole my computer, they never booted it (not booted while connected to the web anyway, my comp pings a certain ip and a url every few seconds or so, what can i say i was paranoid, and i was right to be).

back to the real issue here, i've had maxtor, i've had western digital... also seagate, and hitachi. never had a hard drive fail on me (knock knock on wood). my computer sounds like as loud as my 914 at first though. i have 120mm fans now to keep the noise down. they key is heat. BD1308 is right, i never bother to put the side panel on the computer, i dont have little kids or little animals to worry about (like crawling into my open computer...) anyone seen PI? thats what my computer looks like (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/barf.gif) so, keep your hdd's cool, dont stack them really close, they do need to breath.

[scotty914]

its funny you mention the heat thing my computer ( 6 months old ) was bought from a company who builds computers. they had an ebay shop but ebay kicked em off due to too many comlants about slow delivery ( mine took 6 weeks ) but its a 2.2 gig amd chip and board set, that came with 128 ram, 64 ( i think ) cd, 40 gig hd, a fan through the clear side cover, fan on back, . for 150 bucks. my only complant was no op system. but when i go in to the system stuff on start up, it has a cpu temp a system temp, an out side temp ( read off incoming air on fan). and a hd temp, none of the temps ever are above room temp except the cpu that stays around 37 celius. one feature i have never seen before is an option during the start up system stuff is i can set an over speed clock that slows the clock when the cpu reaches 40 degrees. it would allow me to run up to a 2.8 gig clock speed, but i dont use it because i want this computer to last