A dying Maxtor Harddrive?

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you the "death of my harddrive." Confused

For about a week now the computer has been making this sound (usually on cold boot in the mornings) I didn't think much of it because I thought it was my DVD-ROM (a cd getting stuck inside or something...) Today when it happend I quickly opened the case to find out the culrprit was the top drive in my RAID-0 setup =(. It sounds like its damn near close to death... A few days ago the RAID controller didnt detect the disks until I manually rebooted.

I've had the 2 drives for a little over a year (both purchased from newegg). 2x 60GB Maxtor D740X, ATA133 7200RPM 2MB Cache (in RAID-0 striping).

Here is a 2.28 MB movie clip... (doesn't sound healthy) Bang Head

http://webpages.eng.wayne.edu/~al0769/harddrive.avi

- Jim

Dud3! · Posted: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 17:57:49 Post Subject:

Not dying, DEAD. I'd suggest filling out an RMA promptly (or picking up two Barracuda 7200.2s).

trekrider · Posted: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:14:26 Post Subject:

Sorry to "HEAR" of your loss JB. Get a set of Raptors to run. (wish I had the $$ or I would.)

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 19:34:53 Post Subject:

That is prounced... "The death scream"

Bang Head

that sucker is DOA! Sad

Sorry man

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

*starts backing up frantically*
Rolling Eyes

Crazylepricon69 · Rated PG Joined: 08 Oct 2003 Posts: 8

Hey, you may want to try the "freezer" trick...

Throw that POS in the freezer for like 20 mins then quickly fire it up while it's still cold...

It might start working long enough to grab some data from it....

Good luck!!!

**JimBowy** · Moderator Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 1627

well im ok so far -- its not "dead" yet, just making excessive noise. i'm grabbing all my data off the array as we speak.... if it dies in the process though i'll be sure to give the freezer a try.

Dud3! · Posted: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 09:30:12 Post Subject:

Using to cans of compressed air on the controller of a dying HDD let me get a full drive image of it one time....

trekrider · Posted: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 15:28:39 Post Subject:

Great idea! Expensive but expediant!! Laughing

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 09:50:31 Post Subject:

Looking for a replacement?

120GB Maxtor for $60 after rebate...

http://www.ableshoppers.com/#13102702