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Hard drive failure, not if.....but when !

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  • Registered Users Posts: 178 ✭✭Bluebirdstudios


    Had my first hard drive failure today - whole album worth of audio on it. Always have 2 copies of running session so nothing lost just time in loading session up from external drives into internal drive.
    Just for information - the drive was 14 months old. Also apple SMART diagnostics didn't see it coming either.
    I always dump 3 year old drives out and up untill now that policy was working for me but hey hard drives can fail at anytime.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,759 ✭✭✭Neurojazz


    This is a bit of common sense advice also - Never buy the largest drives available as they more likely to develop faults, always buy older 'known' safe models.

    And if Windows based and you lose a drive, hit google with searches for 'Master boot record' or MBR fix etc... Sometimes totally dead drives can be given life again.


  • Registered Users Posts: 108 ✭✭SonasRec


    Interesting update to my system drive failure. I posted this thread originally because my system drive failed in my mac pro. Drive went blank, hard drive name reset, nothing on the drive.

    Today I bought a sata dock for doing backups outside the computer. Popped in the failed hard drive and, up it came, working grand. What's that all about???


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,892 ✭✭✭madtheory


    Clone that drive immediately before you start diagnosing an intermittent fault.


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