a big FU to sea gate

[jeffie7]

My less then 1 year old 200gb seagate harddrive. I had it in my computer as a slave drive. I had my music backed up as with tons of programs and pictures.

gone.

Thankfully I didnt lose a lot of my music files, Im not 100% sure what I did lose. all I know is I lost 100% of my samples (used when making music) I have about $800 worth on CDs the rest were riped off the net wink wink.

either way. another one bites the dust, and in this case. the drive wasnt even 6 months old!

Its under warranty or I should say it was before I pulled it apart to look for anything obvious that was wrong. I was just hoping to get it working long enough to pull some data off it. ohwell. Chit happens.
I didnt want to do a warranty replacment on it becuase of data that was kept on that drive. from riped samples to random programs. I'd rather just buy a new one.

plus 90 bucks gets you a new 300GB drive with zero wait and no hassles.

 

[jeffie7]

http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetai...ductCode=101213

Should be here tuesday.....

 

[posol]

get a raid controller y0

 

[Sabz5150]

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get a raid controller y0

I agree.

And 90 bucks for 300 gigs? WHERE?

 

[phunky.buddha]

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get a raid controller y0

Why? You just reduce your fault tolerance unless you double up and run RAID 1.

 

[Sabz5150]

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get a raid controller y0

Why? You just reduce your fault tolerance unless you double up and run RAID 1.

Fuck RAID 1. RAID 5 is where it's at my friend.

My bud and I are working on constructing a 1TB+ array and with that amount of data, RAID 5 is a must. Sure, you'll be buying an extra drive, but it's worth it for the redundancy.

Does he need 1TB of space. Well, seeing that his current 600GB array has a little less than 4 gigs left, I'd say he does.

 

[Citizen_Insane]

Um...if you hadn't pulled that apart segate would have restored the data for you....

 

[jeffie7]

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Um...if you hadn't pulled that apart segate would have restored the data for you....

There's no guarantee, besides like I said in my post I didnt want them seeing any of the data on there =)~

Besides it's only 88 bucks for a new WD drive. (the one I went with) shiped.

It will get me back to work on music sooner then if I were to send it and waiting 2-3 weeks.

 

[vtecsir1]

systems guys here at work freeze them to try and pull data off, i dont know if it really works though.

 

[CRX-YEM]

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Um...if you hadn't pulled that apart segate would have restored the data for you....

No, I'm pretty sure they only repair the drive, they do not warrenty any content on the drives, no manufacturer does.


Oh and great price on a 2ooGB drive, but your going to end up saying FU to WD as well, I've had 2 drive within one week of each other die in a server. multiple 60-120Gb drive die in less than a year. WD has really lost it's edge. I've been using Maxtor for a while now. in fact I've got a 120GB maxtor drive that's been running for 5 years 24/7 and counting. and I can't complain.

 

[jeffie7]

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Um...if you hadn't pulled that apart segate would have restored the data for you....

No, I'm pretty sure they only repair the drive, they do not warrenty any content on the drives, no manufacturer does.


Oh and great price on a 2ooGB drive, but your going to end up saying FU to WD as well, I've had 2 drive within one week of each other die in a server. multiple 60-120Gb drive die in less than a year. WD has really lost it's edge. I've been using Maxtor for a while now. in fact I've got a 120GB maxtor drive that's been running for 5 years 24/7 and counting. and I can't complain.

Any hard drive is bound to crash. but 6 months is kinda earily IMO.

I've had a handful of maxtors go up in flames. well not in flames but click click click... same for WD, and Seagate.

My current main drive is a WD and so far "knock on wood" its still going strong so I figured why not try them out again.

 

[TurboMirage]

i just picked up a new seagate barracuda 250gb for 69.99 through one of my vendors

 

[jeffie7]

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i just picked up a new seagate barracuda 250gb for 69.99 through one of my vendors

Hope she last more then 6mo =) The drive I had also came in 250gb. =) Seagate barracuda with 8meg cache

 

[TurboMirage]

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i just picked up a new seagate barracuda 250gb for 69.99 through one of my vendors

Hope she last more then 6mo =) The drive I had also came in 250gb. =) Seagate barracuda with 8meg cache

doesnt matter if it does or not. ill just call up DTI and have them pull the data off it.

 

[confusatron]

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My less then 1 year old 200gb seagate harddrive. I had it in my computer as a slave drive. I had my music backed up as with tons of programs and pictures.

gone.

Thankfully I didnt lose a lot of my music files, Im not 100% sure what I did lose. all I know is I lost 100% of my samples (used when making music) I have about $800 worth on CDs the rest were riped off the net wink wink.

either way. another one bites the dust, and in this case. the drive wasnt even 6 months old!

Its under warranty or I should say it was before I pulled it apart to look for anything obvious that was wrong. I was just hoping to get it working long enough to pull some data off it. ohwell. Chit happens.
I didnt want to do a warranty replacment on it becuase of data that was kept on that drive. from riped samples to random programs. I'd rather just buy a new one.

plus 90 bucks gets you a new 300GB drive with zero wait and no hassles.

Most likely you got hacked buddy. Same thing happened to me about 6 months ago. I lost everything. It was a Western Digital 200GB, it was about 2 years old or so. I gave it to a buddy of mine after losing all my shit, and he's still running it just fine. I got hacked.

 

[jeffie7]

New drive just took a dump, not 100% so Im backing up the little bit of shit I have that isnt backed up yet....

Click Click... Click Click.

mofo!

 

[TurboMirage]

WOW 4 months on a brand new drive

 

[jeffie7]

Most likely you got hacked buddy. Same thing happened to me about 6 months ago. I lost everything. It was a Western Digital 200GB, it was about 2 years old or so. I gave it to a buddy of mine after losing all my shit, and he's still running it just fine. I got hacked.

I never did see this post.

So you're telling me that even when a drive fails you can still use it? I've never once heard about that before. last time I checked when something hardware wise breaks you cant use a software fix like reformatting or wiping it clean then reformatting.....

It's one thing to get a bad sector its another thing to have a harddrive that can't even spin up for more then 3 secs before failing.

 

[xj0hnx]

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So you're telling me that even when a drive fails you can still use it? I've never once heard about that before. last time I checked when something hardware wise breaks you cant use a software fix like reformatting or wiping it clean then reformatting.....

It's one thing to get a bad sector its another thing to have a harddrive that can't even spin up for more then 3 secs before failing.

My Maxtor crashed once, I used GetDataBack to recover most of the data, reformated it and have been using it problem free for over a year now.

 

[jeffie7]

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So you're telling me that even when a drive fails you can still use it? I've never once heard about that before. last time I checked when something hardware wise breaks you cant use a software fix like reformatting or wiping it clean then reformatting.....

It's one thing to get a bad sector its another thing to have a harddrive that can't even spin up for more then 3 secs before failing.

My Maxtor crashed once, I used GetDataBack to recover most of the data, reformated it and have been using it problem free for over a year now.

So you're telling me your drive got cought up on a bad sector or something?

Once again when a drive crashes to the point where something breaks inside the harddrive you CANNOT do jack shit for it. My newest drive that is crashing is getting hung up on either a bad sector or something else becuase its fine for 5-10 mins then it goes into a clicking mode then locks the system up.

My old harddrive took a total shit. There was nothing I could do other then to pay someone tons of money to remove the disc and install them in a new working drive then pull the data off.