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Another one dies unexpectedly - I was in the room a few feet away, and heard it make a little noise, but thought nothing of it, as it will make a little sound every few hours. It's a little "bonk/beep" sound, which is as best as I can describe it; it has made this noise about once a day for as long as I've had it, with no ill effects. Well, today may have been its last. It no longer powers on - at all. When given power, it does absolutely nothing - not so much as an iota of vibration from it. So, time for the usual regiment - 2hrs in the freezer. If that doesn't work, it'll get dropped. If that doesn't work...maybe I'll just open it up and have a look.
It's a 60GB 120GXP, made in early 2002; model is IC35L060AVVA07-A, P/N 07N9209. Fortunately, thanks to my new RAID 5 setup on my secondary PC, I had enough space to make a lot of backups. The critical stuff on the drive is safely stored on the secondary PC, but there's still a lot on there that is also safe - safely sealed on the platters of a dead drive that is.
Edit: Nuts, I just remembered too - I had a slew of passwords saved in an inconspicuous location on the drive. If it is RMA'd, hopefully Hitachi will do a good job of formatting the drive, and hopefully the user who winds up with the refurbed drive will not choose to look too carefully at its previous contents.
Update 7-20-04 - Well the drive is still spinning. But recovery effors aren't going well - it's showing hundreds of bad sectors now.
The SMART data is showing thousands of read errors, and about 700 pending bad sectors, but everything is still showing as passing.
Last update, 7-21-04 - R-studio wrote a 4GB image file from the drive. The directory structures were largely intact, however the files were mostly empty. It was a nearly-full 60GB drive. Of it, Only about 85MB of data survived.
I had given Spinrite a go at it too, before R-studio. It estimated that it would be completed in about 1000 hours.:Q By that time, the drive's guts would have literally ripped themselves to pieces.
Time to rebuild my secondary drive - and make sure that EVERYTHING I want is (fairly) safely stowed away on my new RAID 5 array.
RMA time for the dead thing. It now only can do this, and it's no longer detected by the system.
One additional last update, 9-30-04
I finally RMA'd the drive. A 60GB 120GXP. Airborne Express today delivered a 92.6GB 180GXP, manufactured March 04, and under warranty, but the page doesn't say how long for.
Still would have been nice if it hadn't died. Though, I did stumble across an old 20GB drive that had a lot of the lost files still on it. So the overall loss was fairly minimal. And I gained 32.6GB, and various other minor hardware improvements.
It's a 60GB 120GXP, made in early 2002; model is IC35L060AVVA07-A, P/N 07N9209. Fortunately, thanks to my new RAID 5 setup on my secondary PC, I had enough space to make a lot of backups. The critical stuff on the drive is safely stored on the secondary PC, but there's still a lot on there that is also safe - safely sealed on the platters of a dead drive that is.
Edit: Nuts, I just remembered too - I had a slew of passwords saved in an inconspicuous location on the drive. If it is RMA'd, hopefully Hitachi will do a good job of formatting the drive, and hopefully the user who winds up with the refurbed drive will not choose to look too carefully at its previous contents.
Update 7-20-04 - Well the drive is still spinning. But recovery effors aren't going well - it's showing hundreds of bad sectors now.
The SMART data is showing thousands of read errors, and about 700 pending bad sectors, but everything is still showing as passing.
Last update, 7-21-04 - R-studio wrote a 4GB image file from the drive. The directory structures were largely intact, however the files were mostly empty. It was a nearly-full 60GB drive. Of it, Only about 85MB of data survived.
I had given Spinrite a go at it too, before R-studio. It estimated that it would be completed in about 1000 hours.:Q By that time, the drive's guts would have literally ripped themselves to pieces.
Time to rebuild my secondary drive - and make sure that EVERYTHING I want is (fairly) safely stowed away on my new RAID 5 array.
RMA time for the dead thing. It now only can do this, and it's no longer detected by the system.
One additional last update, 9-30-04
I finally RMA'd the drive. A 60GB 120GXP. Airborne Express today delivered a 92.6GB 180GXP, manufactured March 04, and under warranty, but the page doesn't say how long for.
Still would have been nice if it hadn't died. Though, I did stumble across an old 20GB drive that had a lot of the lost files still on it. So the overall loss was fairly minimal. And I gained 32.6GB, and various other minor hardware improvements.
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