RIP :*(

edvallie · Posted: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:34:08 Post Subject: RIP :*(

My 120gb Samsung drive died on me today. Currently running on an old 13gb WD. Censored

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:12:54 Post Subject:

ACK! a 13GB drive? That sucks

edvallie · Posted: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:45:27 Post Subject:

renovation · Posted: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 17:53:25 Post Subject:

OT / can you tell me why most hard drives die . what is the main failure found to be when a hard drive go.s bad ?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 19:36:47 Post Subject:

Most likely it's caused by the heads crashing into the drive. Remember how fast everything is working in there, one tiny wrong movement and it's bye-bye hard drive.

Sometimes the motor goes out too.

LaTech · Posted: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:32:30 Post Subject:

I've been lucky enough that the controller board went out and I replaced it with a "spare" and the thing worked fine after that. Tiny fragments of just about anything inside the drive will cause catastropic failure.

I remember one time taking the cover off a HDD and then touching it with a screw driver while it was plugged in and accessing (NOT RECOMMENDED!) Yeah...it didn't last long at all. That whole "screwdriver/HDD plater interface isn't all it's cracked up to be.