Am I pushing my IDE hard drives too hard?

[brinstar117]

Well, bascially I leave my computer on for days at a time. It's great to have a stable Win2K pro machine.

During most of the time, I have file sharing programs enabled, so I'm constatly downloading/uploading files. I also do a lot of file transfers to other computer's on my network from my computer.

The problem is that I've already lost one hard drive (it was a Quantum 30 GB 7200 RPM LM series). It started making horrible scratching noises and failed on me. (I lost all my files... BOOOO!)

Now I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 7200RPM 60 GB drive. It randomly makes horrible scratching noises. While the scratching occurs, my system freezes temporarily... as if the swap file was inaccessible. I've run ScanDisk numerous times, but no problems have come up. Somehow I'm not convinced. Please help!


EDIT:

Heh, I guess TunaBoo can leave the erroneous spelling up for you people to have a good laugh. Please add something constructive to this thread though, I can't believe that I'm now tied to such dirty imagery.

 

[TunaBoo]

For that kind of heavy disk access, look into cheaper SCSI drivers (7200 RPM).

 

[TunaBoo]

For that kind of heavy disk access, look into cheaper SCSI drives (7200 RPM).

 

[MulLa]

You might want to check your spelling

 

[goog40]

<< For that kind of heavy dick access, look into cheaper SCSI drivers (7200 RPM). >>



Haha classic ^^^ Your words are forever immortalized

 

[AgentofEvil]

LOL
Thats not a pretty mental image!

 

[pillage2001]

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<< For that kind of heavy dick access, look into cheaper SCSI drivers (7200 RPM). >>



Haha classic ^^^ Your words are forever immortalized >>



AAHAHAHA..That's it, my girl wants me to have a SCSI DIcK!!!!! :Q

 

[Budman]

7200 PPM (pump per minute) SCSI Dick,yeah baby.:Q

 

[Rage187]

LMAO


Linked from OT...

 

[SphincterLord]

I get the same problem with my IBM 34GXPs... (no not my wang you fools ) I lost one, but the other three are still going...

SL

 

[bacillus]

hmm, wonder if that was a Freudian slip by TunaBoo!

 

[stingray2]

how is the cooling in your system? i have found that my harddrive act up when they are really hot. when I added many fans to my system, all my hard drive problems went away. heat is the killer of all computer componets.

 

[tommigsr]

<< For that kind of heavy dick access, look into cheaper SCSI drivers (7200 RPM). >>



HHAHHAHAHA I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING!!!!!!!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Walay]

why not get ide Raid? a cheaper alternative to scsi...yet would be alot better then wat u currently have..
i think with ide drives...you can do too much on it at the same time...but raid should solve some of the problem.

 

[TunaBoo]

If you guys don't stop it, I will give YOU some heavy dick access in the rear port, if you know what I mean.

 

[TunaBoo]

<< why not get ide Raid? a cheaper alternative to scsi...yet would be alot better then wat u currently have..
i think with ide drives...you can do too much on it at the same time...but raid should solve some of the problem. >>



Yeah... raid0'ing the disks will help prevent them from failing...

 

[Sir Fredrick]

IDE RAID is going to put the drives under just as much strain.
If you're going to go SCSI, I don't know how much sense it makes to go with a 7200RPM drive now, you can get an 18GB 10K RPM for a reasonable price now.

 

[majewski9]

HAHA Tunaboo a good laugh by all!

I agree SCSI is the way to go. RAID wul help performance, but not disk life. The only problem is $$$!

 

[brinstar117]

SCSI sounds like the answer for me. I think I'll use SCSI drives for high traffic files. Mostly for stuff that's incoming an outgoing. I'll use IDE for more of a long term archiving storage. Thanks all! I'm glad we could go back on topic.

Now all I have to do is research into SCSI, I've never had any experiences with SCSI yet. I've heard that it can be quite daunting.

 

[Sir Fredrick]

If you have any questions about SCSI feel free to ask (PM), I'm not exactly an expert, but I have built a couple of SCSI systems, and my main system is all SCSI.