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| kadomony |
Wtf is up with this.
Seems like people's hard drives are crashing left and right!
I know at least 6 ppl who've lost a hd over the past few months. |
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| wizniz |
:( if mine crashed id die
4 serious
or at least id be very depressed for a long time and would most likely cry a hell of a lot |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by kadomony
Wtf is up with this.
Seems like people's hard drives are crashing left and right!
I know at least 6 ppl who've lost a hd over the past few months. |
i blame it on the professional and amateur pr0n industry... :o |
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| Jocker |
2 words:
redundancy & backup |
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| TigerClaw |
| People often use Hard Drives to backup files, But they aren't reliable for long term use cause usually when in a year or so, You end up buying a bigger Hard Drive as prices go down. However, The ultimate backups will always be DVDRs, But with Blu-Ray on the horizon, It can hold about 20gigs or more on storage capacity. |
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| Ygrene |
| quote: | Originally posted by dj_bas
Oh Cool, Learn When Not to capitLize. |
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| Magnus |
| quote: | Originally posted by TigerClaw
People often use Hard Drives to backup files, But they arent reliable for long term use cause usually when in a year or so, You end up buying a bigger Hard Drive as prices go down. However, The altimate backups will always be DVDRs, But with Blu-Ray on the horizon, It can hold about 20gigs or more on storage capacity. |
This is very true. Until then however, just redundancy, burn a lot of DVDs, and leave your PC on 24/7. Turning your machine off puts unneccessary wear and tear on your hard drive and going from hot to cold, hot to cold, over and over will subtract from a hard drives life. My entire life I've always left my machines run permanently and have never had a HD crash. In contrast, I work in an IT department and am given crashed hard drives all the time. They are always from laptop users or desktop users that don't leave their PC on. Just something to think about. |
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| Coup |
Dont want to tempt fate here, but ive used PC's for atleast 7 years and i turn them off at night and on in the morning, and it prob gets turned on and off 5 times a day - none of my HD's have ever ever crashed or malfunctioned.
What u said about turning on/off is more wear and tear than 24/7 is correct, but i guess if its going to fail its going to fail. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by Coup
Dont want to tempt fate here, but ive used PC's for atleast 7 years and i turn them off at night and on in the morning, and it prob gets turned on and off 5 times a day - none of my HD's have ever ever crashed or malfunctioned.
What u said about turning on/off is more wear and tear than 24/7 is correct, but i guess if its going to fail its going to fail. |
10+ years for me, and had 1 HDD scratched up, 1 with a weak power plug ( i can turn it on, but after 30 minutes, it would die on me), and 1 that goes spastic now and again.
like he said, there really isn't the pure 100% reliable HDD ..
so what HDDs do you buy ? i usually buy the seagate barracuda or Western digital caviar .. |
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| Psygnosis |
last time i bought a lexmark printer and in it came a free power surge protector.
I bought it for the power surge protector because the stuff in my computer is pretty strong so i didn't want it being destroyed if lightning struck.
2 months later, BOOM the power supply blows taking out the HDD. I was thinking why it happened so it might have been bad psu. Under warranty, i got a new HDD and psu but all files are all gone.. 2 weeks later BOOM, but this time the sparks just missed me ahah, it was that big. this time it took my motherboard.
i still didn't want to admit it was the psu
it blew up 1 more time, 3 weeks later.
so i gave the power surge protector to someone for a present and used a standard power outlet.. and everything is fine.
Moral of story, if it ain't broken, don't try to fix it.
Moral of story, if computer works, don't try anything stupid.
sorry if this was irrevelant to the topic, but hdds can fail for many reason leading to power. |
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| UWM |
| Had the HDD on my old computer crash about a week before I got my new laptop. She was almost 7 yrs old :( |
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| igottaknow |
| quote: | Originally posted by TigerClaw
People often use Hard Drives to backup files, But they aren't reliable for long term use cause usually when in a year or so, You end up buying a bigger Hard Drive as prices go down. However, The ultimate backups will always be DVDRs, But with Blu-Ray on the horizon, It can hold about 20gigs or more on storage capacity. |
I've heard the industry has decided to move back to papyrus for backups. Sure it has low capacity but you can't beat it for longevity. Just ask the Pharaohs. Ever hear of a scroll crashing?
| quote: | Originally posted by UWM
Had the HDD on my old computer crash about a week before I got my new laptop. She was almost 7 yrs old :( |
did you hit it? |
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