I think I'm going to be sick

[Booster]

Are you kidding? EVERY HD will fail. Some do it sooner than others.

No I'm not kidding. In all the time I been using a PC I never had it fail on me. And I think I could get a warranty replacement (nope, of course, I wouldn't go as low as destroying it myself, but still).

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Booster

Are you kidding? EVERY HD will fail. Some do it sooner than others.

No I'm not kidding. In all the time I been using a PC I never had it fail on me. And I think I could get a warranty replacement (nope, of course, I wouldn't go as low as destroying it myself, but still).

We probably put more strain on our drives than most, the drive was installed in a server with 99.9+ percent uptime over the last 1.5 years.

Viper GTS

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: mugs
The drive is still under warranty, right? Maybe they can fix it.

Warranties don't cover the data.

He didn't say the data was corrupted, it could be a mechanical problem. I don't know how they handle stuff like this, but if they repair it instead of replacing it, his data could still be there.

When you send in the bad drive under warranty, they send you another refurbished drive which may nor may not be the same model, but will at least equal to your drive. In order to get the data off the drive you have to send it to a data recovery place at your expense.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Raid 1 next time.

Or 0+1 if you want to run the stripe again.

And...SCSI. Much less chance of it happening again.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
Raid 1 next time.

Or 0+1 if you want to run the stripe again.

And...SCSI. Much less chance of it happening again.

We're well aware, the problem is financing it.

Viper GTS

 

[vi edit]

I can one up you.

I had a raid controller on a Dell Poweredge server nuke a raid 1 array. Both primary and mirror drives were toasted. All data gone. And to make matters worse, the DB was writing corrupted backups the whole time!

Wooo!

42 hours of straight work during that little mishap.

Next to the building burning down, it was one of the worse data disasters I've ever seen.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: Booster

My roommate just told me that a 200 GB drive in one of our servers died, taking with it 85% of our media collection (movies & music).

How do you people always have HDs fail on you? I've never seen a single hard drive fail anywhere and never even heard about it (well, except this forum, of course).

Are you kidding? EVERY HD will fail. Some do it sooner than others.

I still have 250MB drives that work perfectly.
Ive never EVER had a HDD fail on me.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: Sideswipe001
Raid 1 next time.

Or 0+1 if you want to run the stripe again.

And...SCSI. Much less chance of it happening again.

We're well aware, the problem is financing it.

Viper GTS

Do you have more than 1 PC in the room?
I refuse to do data backup inside the same machine... even RAID1 has serious failure issues.
Get 2 machines, run nightly incrmental backups and your (relatively) safe from any catasrophe.

 

[Sideswipe001]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: kranky

Originally posted by: Booster

My roommate just told me that a 200 GB drive in one of our servers died, taking with it 85% of our media collection (movies & music).

How do you people always have HDs fail on you? I've never seen a single hard drive fail anywhere and never even heard about it (well, except this forum, of course).

Are you kidding? EVERY HD will fail. Some do it sooner than others.

I still have 250MB drives that work perfectly.
Ive never EVER had a HDD fail on me.

I learned exactly how often it happens when I started doing full time IT work.

I can't count the number I've seen go down. All IDE so far, but then again, we don't have much SCSI. Just the servers. I've never had one of my own personal HDs die.

And yeah, I know they are expensive. Just get them 1 piece at a time to pay for it. $200 controller...next month 1 HD...next month the 2nd one..etc. We just got 2 10K 72 GB SCSIs here for a new server; They were around $180 apiece.

 

[Hammer]

RAID is your friend.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Another vote for the freezer trick, my fiancee has successfully used it before.

 

[PanzerIV]

Too bad you can't use a data recovery service since financing that venture would be expensive. I suppose you would have to look at it from a cost/benefit ratio. Is the cost worth not having to reencode everything again. Tough choice.

 

[thomsbrain]

it gets awful tough to back up HD's when they are that big. you pretty much have to have two of them.