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Has your hard drive ever died ?

  • 10-05-2009 10:53AM
    #1
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 94,366 Mod ✭✭✭✭


    Just looking at the Do you back-up thread and wanted to scare people into backing up.

    With regard to hard drives dying 89 votes

    never lost data.
    0% 0 votes
    I have backed up a drive that was on it last legs in time
    16% 15 votes
    only had one drive die on me
    10% 9 votes
    only had one drive die on me and now backup religiously
    14% 13 votes
    had more than one drive die and now backup
    4% 4 votes
    had more than one drive die and still playing with fate
    11% 10 votes
    have a copy of important data online (including gmail)
    10% 9 votes
    have a copy of important data at another site
    5% 5 votes
    I am that guy who has had two drives die in a RAID 5 array
    5% 5 votes
    I think brand name hard drives are more reliable than in the past
    3% 3 votes
    I think brand name hard drives are as reliable than in the past
    4% 4 votes
    I think brand name hard drives are LESS reliable than in the past
    5% 5 votes
    Atari Jaguars ftw
    7% 7 votes


Comments

  • #2
    spartacus93
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,452 ✭✭✭spartacus93


    Have had two die and another one replaced under warranty just when it was on it's last legs.

    First to go was a 160Gb external maxtor.
    Then a 400Gb internal (the brand escapes me)

    The hard drive on my Dell laptop was replaced when it started ticking loudly, luckily, unlike the others, it gave plenty of warning before it failed completely and i was able to get everything off it.

    My problem is I've a media centre with 2tbs of ripped DVDs and music etc, if it fails i'll still have all the physical disks but would loose an awful lot of time copying them all over again. It's very hard to back up 2tb of data tho.

    Any important documents, pictures etc. are stored on an external hard drive, usually on two computers, and online also.


  • #3
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I've all my data on NAS machines (Raid 5) and use time-machine to backup up user settings. Had a laptop drive and NAS drive die on me, lost nothing.


  • #4
    ethernet
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,569 ✭✭✭ethernet


    Had a WD MyBook fail fairly quickly. Disappointing. No important data loss thanks Offline Files (Windows)!

    All data now backed up to a file server. Not off-site, however. Still playing with fire :pac:


  • #5
    DMax
    Closed Accounts Posts: 58 ✭✭DMax


    `Had one external drive with lots of data. When the very first symptoms of failure occurred managed to recover about 60-70% before it died.

    At present use 4 external discs only for backing up. Try to keep at least 2 or 3 copies of important data.


  • #6
    snappieT
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,357 ✭✭✭snappieT


    Had a maxtor internal drive die ages ago, just lost some music, nothing major. Accidently forgot to backup college notes document when formatting laptop, but had 2 week old copy in gmail.

    Anything important gets emailed to myself in gmail and get stored on USB key.


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  • #7
    DonkeyStyle \o/
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,144 ✭✭✭DonkeyStyle \o/


    Had one drive die, but most of my data loss has been from unexplained disasters during partition resizing.
    I don't back up religiously, but when it comes to modifying partitions I don't take any chances.


  • #8
    TinCool
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,894 ✭✭✭TinCool


    Have blown 2 x Seagate Drives due to messy upgrades and not taking the necessary precautions. Lost a good bit of data but that was a long time ago.

    I had a MyBook 500GB die when it fell off the coffee table on to carpet. I lost a lot of my music and movies which was a pain in the hole.

    I bought 2 x 1TB drives for my desktop not so long ago so plan (can't get at my desktop due to office being current junk dumping ground) to use one of them as a backup for the other to hold my media stuff, currently on a few 4 x 500GB drives.

    I have a 500GB external USB Drive (the new NESO Drives which look great) which I use to back up the stuff on my laptop. There's stuff on that drive that I need to dump over to the 1TB drives in my desktop so fingers crossed, the NESO Drive won't fail before I get a chance to do that.


  • #9
    rockal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 757 ✭✭✭rockal


    I've had a Samsung F1 750GB die twice under warranty (data lost) and am now afraid to use it.


  • #10
    Amalgam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,026 ✭✭✭Amalgam


    About 3 Maxtors have died on me. The 20GB Maxtor was when they were just out, expensive loss. Hitachi 1 dead, laptop. 1 Western Digital Passport, 120GB or 160GB, dreaded click of death.. IBM laptop drive, dead as a doornail.

    Is this a proper dead or just bad sectors.. if bad sectors I could be here listing drives all day..

    Long time Ghost user, dumped it after Ghost 2003, Acronis since.. but that's not saying much about its worth or stability..

    Thank heavens for the rise of Linux live CD's, changes the whole scenery, not having to rely on the good will of a wobbly Windows install.


  • #11
    Conor108
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,871 ✭✭✭Conor108


    The 8GB internall HDD of my first PC (Packard Bell from 1998) works to this day:D


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  • #12
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    Conor108 wrote: »
    The 8GB internall HDD of my first PC (Packard Bell from 1998) works to this day:D

    They don't make them like that anymore :D I have a 10 year old Sony Vaio with a 12 GB drive and it took lots of falls and bangs. For the last 3 years it was sitting in the corner of a room running a small server 24/7 with never a problem. Retired it 3 months ago, best bit of kit I ever owned :(


  • #13
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,699 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    I've had 2 hard drive failures.

    Years ago the internal drive on my old iMac G3 died but I managed to get all the data off in time. It was still barely working when I replaced it.

    And a 2 year old external WD My Book a few months ago. The enclosure went first so I swapped the drive into another enclosure. It was fine for a while until it died for real. I suspect the crappy replacement enclosure may have been responsible for roasting it though. Everything was backed up thankfully.


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