how often has your hdd failed?
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i've never had any hdd's die on me either,my old pc has a seagate hdd(i think) and that lasted for like 5 years and infact the pc is still going strong with that same hard drive now as the family pc.
my rig now has a pair of wd caviars in and they will be about 1 year old soon and i shall imagine they will last a very long time yet...probably until i need more storage capacity from some more 'equipped' drives
cheers.
my rig now has a pair of wd caviars in and they will be about 1 year old soon and i shall imagine they will last a very long time yet...probably until i need more storage capacity from some more 'equipped' drives
cheers.
WC Annihilus
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Don't believe I've lost anything over here. Got a VAIO that we have had for several years, twice now it got the stupid warning that there would be an imminent hard drive failure, both times it just went away after a while
Rastalovich
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Well.. 200g of a filesystem crapped out on me earlier in the year.
Drive was ok tho ?!?!?
Drive was ok tho ?!?!?
Well I havn't had a problem with my hard drive.... until now.
Problems keep occuring with the file system and I thought it was caused by a 'quick format' on the last install. Games were being very odd and the pc would sometimes shut off when I closed or opened a game. Chkdsk would find errors and I did chkdsk /f to fix them, but they re-occured. Then CSS dissapeared from steam even though I could see the files, maps would differ from the servers on bf2 + css and the crashes became more frequent.
This all happened since clocking my machine to 2.65 and I've put it back to 2.49 ghz, with LDT at 800 (which I believe means a HTT multiplier of 4x) and is a lot more stable. I then I did a proper format and new winxp install, all has been fine, until recently - I've had 2 of the odd crashes and there are problems on the file system again....
Any ideas? I'm going to reset the cmos and reseat the gfx card next time it crashes...
Problems keep occuring with the file system and I thought it was caused by a 'quick format' on the last install. Games were being very odd and the pc would sometimes shut off when I closed or opened a game. Chkdsk would find errors and I did chkdsk /f to fix them, but they re-occured. Then CSS dissapeared from steam even though I could see the files, maps would differ from the servers on bf2 + css and the crashes became more frequent.
This all happened since clocking my machine to 2.65 and I've put it back to 2.49 ghz, with LDT at 800 (which I believe means a HTT multiplier of 4x) and is a lot more stable. I then I did a proper format and new winxp install, all has been fine, until recently - I've had 2 of the odd crashes and there are problems on the file system again....
Any ideas? I'm going to reset the cmos and reseat the gfx card next time it crashes...
Rastalovich
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My filesystem went pooey when I plugged an old 10g fujitsu on the same chain as the gigzor.
Was probably the 8th drive in the system, K7 with ~300-350w psu - fans up the yingyang and a few pci cards. Poor thing. Had some restarting issues when accessing the same parts of the drives each time, some partitions just never displayed.
I seriously doubt u`ve got like 4 or so drives on one power cable with molex splitters, so I`d negate that with the exception of a faulty psu - very easy to give that answer.
Other thing would be that the drive does have either a footprint on one of the discs (impression left by a read head), or a handful of bad tracks (that actually multiply like rabbits) - both of which may never turn up during a format, but ~usually~ turn up on a surface scan. A surface scan should tell u - will take ages tho.
If the drive is approaching 5 years old, I`d look at the last paragraph with interest, particularly a DeathStar.
Was probably the 8th drive in the system, K7 with ~300-350w psu - fans up the yingyang and a few pci cards. Poor thing. Had some restarting issues when accessing the same parts of the drives each time, some partitions just never displayed.
I seriously doubt u`ve got like 4 or so drives on one power cable with molex splitters, so I`d negate that with the exception of a faulty psu - very easy to give that answer.
Other thing would be that the drive does have either a footprint on one of the discs (impression left by a read head), or a handful of bad tracks (that actually multiply like rabbits) - both of which may never turn up during a format, but ~usually~ turn up on a surface scan. A surface scan should tell u - will take ages tho.
If the drive is approaching 5 years old, I`d look at the last paragraph with interest, particularly a DeathStar.
try a new hdd jiffzy boy, you ever get wierd sluggishness in windows, like your mouse freezes for a few seconds and then coems back?
ive also never had a hard drive die on me, except for the time i covered that little hole thats say "do not cover this", then the hard drive died, but thats user error
ive also never had a hard drive die on me, except for the time i covered that little hole thats say "do not cover this", then the hard drive died, but thats user error
FarFarAway
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Never had a HDD go wrong on me thankfully 
The harddrive in my pc went within 4 months- was a Maxtor and I couldn't recover anything.
The DVD/RW on the machine died soon after, and I've had other problems, so I think it was built to a poor standard (bought it off eBay from a company about 10 miles away, but voided the warranty by opening it up to install a graphics card without permission).
The DVD/RW on the machine died soon after, and I've had other problems, so I think it was built to a poor standard (bought it off eBay from a company about 10 miles away, but voided the warranty by opening it up to install a graphics card without permission).
Rastalovich said:
Well the HDD is about 2 years old, and I have 1 HDD with it's very own cable going to it, and it's a 530W psu which I believe is ok.
I've now ordered a Samsung 80GB one and I'll use that as my OS drive and keep the other to hold media. Hope it does stay alive is all
Rastalovich
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If u`r a gamer, u should always think of installing u`r OS on a different drive, not just partition, to u`r games.
2 years is still young, I`d definately consider sticking it on surface scan either overnight or whilst u`r out.
2 years is still young, I`d definately consider sticking it on surface scan either overnight or whilst u`r out.
Rastalovich
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Aslong as u type "FOR EFF SAKE" from here on in instead of ffs.
had a bunch of harddrive going bad.
the first one was a 60mb i had in my amiga, i plugged in the 44pin cable the wrong way so the electronics burned.
had a 200mb connor, worked good but when i took it out from a drawer after 2 years it didnt work, windows claimed it was over 200gig space on it.
had a couple of harddrives 850mb-10gig stopped working after being unused for a long time.
i have an OLD deathstar 30gig which has worked hard for me the last 3-4 years and it still works but starts to sound a bit weird so bought a "new" harddrive to replace it in my old amd32.
it has sounded bad on and off for the last 2 years but last time i used it it sounded very bad so disconnected it.
have had many filesystems crashed on me, the filesystem amiga used wasnt good so had some crashes their but changed to pfs and then to afs.
have not had any major filesystemscrash on windows though but had some incidents where i had to format the partition to get rid of a problem.
the first one was a 60mb i had in my amiga, i plugged in the 44pin cable the wrong way so the electronics burned.
had a 200mb connor, worked good but when i took it out from a drawer after 2 years it didnt work, windows claimed it was over 200gig space on it.
had a couple of harddrives 850mb-10gig stopped working after being unused for a long time.
i have an OLD deathstar 30gig which has worked hard for me the last 3-4 years and it still works but starts to sound a bit weird so bought a "new" harddrive to replace it in my old amd32.
it has sounded bad on and off for the last 2 years but last time i used it it sounded very bad so disconnected it.
have had many filesystems crashed on me, the filesystem amiga used wasnt good so had some crashes their but changed to pfs and then to afs.
have not had any major filesystemscrash on windows though but had some incidents where i had to format the partition to get rid of a problem.
