my harddrives hate me.

[nortexoid]

I just RMA'd a dead piece of junk fujitsu 20gb hdd (which is USED to praise...go figure) for this 40gb drive they gave me for exchange...so i'm like, "yeah! free double-the-capacity upgrade, although i lost a bunch of unrecoverable data"...

now this stupid thing starts clicking...as we speak i'm backing up my data...anyway, it started clicking so bad my system crashed.
i restarted, the clicking is worse...it won't even boot..wont' even detect the drive...just keeps clicking

so i turned it off for a short time - few minutes...needless to say, it's now working...for who knows how much longer.
i'm rma'ing this sack of sheite this week - AGAIN. (i've had it for like a whopping couple weeks)

 

[paralazarguer]

lost a bunch of unrecoverable data

That's not their fault. first commandment of owning a PC: Backup your data.

That's your fault.

 

[nortexoid]

who said it was their fault?

also, there's always going to be unrecovable data, no matter if u're backing up or not (incrementally anyway), unless u're mirroring the other drive in a raid setup.

but thanks for the lecture, pops.
can i have the car for the weekend?

 

[paralazarguer]

Well, mentioning the fact that you lost unrecoverable data in such a rant is obviously a complaint and is meant to ragg on your HDD manufacturer.

also, there's always going to be unrecovable data, no matter if u're backing up or not (incrementally anyway), unless u're mirroring the other drive in a raid setup.

B.S B.S B.S. It's pretty easy to completely back up your HDD you know. There no reason you should lose anything. Tape drives, norton Ghost, Drive Image, firewire storage, etc, etc. RAID is not the only way.

 

[Democritus10]

How do you really lose unrecoverable data anyway? If it's unrecoverable, you don't have it and can't lose it. Or you still have it and it's unrecoverable, but you haven't lost it.

 

[Budman]

I am in the process of RMA ing a Fujitsu for the same reasons, it corrupts the files bad & when I run their HD test it says the drive is fine.

But i can across this from there site --> When installing Microsoft Windows 2000 on UDMA 100 hard disk drive, the drive hangs or gets an error message reporting various files to be missing or corrupt.

So i tried their " fix " and it helped a bit BUT now the drive boots as ata66 fine after setting it to ata66 with the dos utility BUT, after a few min in win2k the drive seems to go into PIO mode & cpu usage goes way up & it's very very slow.

So I am sending it to them i hopes that a new one will be fine.

 

[Budman]

I even benched the drive to make sure i wasnt going nuts.

Drive speed after booting into win2k

Drive speed after 10 min of usage.

Those 2 benches were taken without rebooting or changing anything,I took the first bench right after booting & the other was about 5 min after when i noticed the system being slow.