"Another Hard Drive, Please."
I'm really beginning to hate magnetic hard drives. I think I just had another one fail on me. On the bright side, it gave me one warning death, revived itself, and I had enough time to get all my pictures. I'm trying to bring it online so I can back the rest of it up onto DVDs, but to no avail at this point.
There are a number of things that could be causing them to fail, but I don't know which of them it is, or if it's a combination of a bunch of things. For the past two months or so, it was rare for humidity to drop below 90%. The drive would regularly get hot enough that I couldn't hold my fingers against it without risking a burn due to the lack of cooling... THere are other things, but I'm hoping it's one of those to, and also that they'll take this drive back. I have done nothing to it and am using the same gear the store uses.
It should be fine!
There are a number of things that could be causing them to fail, but I don't know which of them it is, or if it's a combination of a bunch of things. For the past two months or so, it was rare for humidity to drop below 90%. The drive would regularly get hot enough that I couldn't hold my fingers against it without risking a burn due to the lack of cooling... THere are other things, but I'm hoping it's one of those to, and also that they'll take this drive back. I have done nothing to it and am using the same gear the store uses.
It should be fine!
Labels: computers
posted by William at
9/04/2008 09:25:00 AM
10 Comments:
That sounds excessively frustrating! Blah!
I wonder if there is any way to ascertain for sure what causes them to keep doing that. I know your pictures, especially, are quite valuable to you.
I hope it goes well getting the rest of your stuffs from the thing!
The rest of the data is very likely doomed. It's doing the same seek-error thing that my first 500GB drive was doing. Dad thinks I should see if I can find a butterfly seek jumper and have it run that, since that will do something to something that I didn't know existed.
Who made the drive
All of them that have failed here are WD drives.
I think you at least need an enclosed, force-vented (fans) enclosure.
Barely moving, 90% humid air doesn't exactly move heat too well.
Yeah, you want to send me one? The computer stores here are great if you want to build something out of nothing but random pieces, but I'm confident that if I tried, it would explode. And not in a good way.
In truth, I've seen them, but once summer's over it shouldn't be as much of a problem. The Japanese seem to think it's cold here in the winter. I should mention that when they come to Ellensburg, it's not uncommon to see people quit the program because it's too cold. And our temps rarely drop below 0F!
Had you tried reviving at all in a cool place? Preferably a freezer, if you can?
I tried the freezer trick. It didn't work; all I got was a click.
I like the cool, creative idea...even if it didn't work.
It's been a standard last-ditch thing since the late 80's I think.
It's kind of like CPR: it works maybe 5% of the time. If it doesn't, well, you're no worse off than you were before. Dead either way.
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