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2 Drives bricked over the weekend...

phoenix79

phoenix79

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I've got 3 500GB drives that have been running for nearly 2 years now and one 1.5TB drive I got for Newegg's black friday deal. Last Monday the 1.5TB drive dropped out of windows. I was like, "crap..." So I rebooted, it was back, and all was right with the world. Saturday, I turned the computer on and noticed that one of my 500GB drives had dropped out. So I reboot and the BIOS doesn't even detect this one, and I also notice its having issues with the 1.5TB drive again. I pull both drives out of my case and attach them to my USB-SATA dongle then notice that they are both giving me the clicks of death.... The 1.5TB drive I can get the BIOS to randomly recognize but windows refuses to see it. I was able to stick the drives in the freezer and see if I could get windows to see them off the USB dongle and they worked so I will be able to save some of the data, but it's going to be a major PITA..
 
i leave them in the freezer while pulling off the data. this usually gives me enough time to make a ghost clone of the entire hdd.
 
Originally posted by: Gillbot
i leave them in the freezer while pulling off the data. this usually gives me enough time to make a ghost clone of the entire hdd.
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Thats what I plan to do. Just ordered another 1.5TB drive and I've got a 15 ft USB extension cable that I can run to the freezer.
 
Originally posted by: magreen
Suspicious that 2 drives bricked at once? Could there be a power problem w/ your psu?
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:shocked:

Originally posted by: phoenix79
As for the PSU, I'm notorious for putting in way too many hard drives over time (my current setup has 7). I am preparing for future expandibility for SLI and more storage.
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Wow, you dug that one up. My current rig 5 hard drives. The 3 500GB Seagates, the 1.5TB Seagate and a 30GB Raptor. I am not running SLI at the moment and have a PC Power and Cooling 750 Quad PSU. If it's the PSU, then I'm pissed it should be putting out plenty of juice for the system.
 
eh... depending on model each HDD takes 5-10 watts... 10 drives will take 50 to 100 watts, which is nothing in a modern computer.

I had an issue before with a video card and because i was running 6 HDDs everyone told me "its your psu!", ofcourse it wasn't the psu. (they were 5 watt hdds, aka, regular western digital drives)

That being said, your PSU could be damaging your drives for a reason OTHER than having "too many".
 
I've always wondered: Why does "the freezer trick" work? What happens, mechanically, to make the drives work long enough to recover data?
 
It worked for me with a WD 80GB HD that never acted up after spending a few hours in the freezer.
Before that, it started hard locking when the drive got warm.
 
i thought they fixed the seagate 7200.11 with the new bios. did you update your bios? anyhow, I'd get a WD and not buy another seagate 1,5tb again if you already having trouble with one.

this is why I'm going with DVDs now, can't afford to let the drive take so much data in one shot when it dies.

hope you can still save some data off this one.
 
Originally posted by: Ken90630
I've always wondered: Why does "the freezer trick" work? What happens, mechanically, to make the drives work long enough to recover data?
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Also curious. Anyone?
 
Originally posted by: ExcaliburMM
Originally posted by: Ken90630
I've always wondered: Why does "the freezer trick" work? What happens, mechanically, to make the drives work long enough to recover data?
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Also curious. Anyone?
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Because it's usually the drive's electronics that go bad and overheat causing the problem. By frezing it you're pre-cooling the drive. Once it heats back up it dies again so you freeze it again. I plan to just leave mine in the freezer and run a USB cable to my USB/SATA dongle inside the freezer.
 
Uhmmm... That strikes me as completely wrong. It's the mechanical part of the drive that's almost universally blamed for their eventual failure. I don't know for sure, but it strikes me as much more likely to do with the cold making the platters shrink enough to spin and not knock against what they were getting stuck on.
 
shrinking of solid parts (platters, engine, heads, metal parts in general) reduces friction and allows them to spin up again?
 
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