Feck, HDD just died.

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So I'm about to relax and start watching Happy Valley when my OS freezes trying to open the file. Reboot and things are slow. Remove case side panel and can hear some faint clicking. Remove the drive, connect it via usb and it's got that dreaded clicking sound which stops after a few clicks, sigh.

WD 500GB, WD500AAJS-22TKA0

The thing that pisses me off is I just copied that 7GB series across earlier today, it's been deleted from the laptop so will have to try and do a data recovery from the laptop tomorrow (don't wanna redownload it). Thing just died out of the blue, no warning and this after I just watched a movie from the same drive not 10min before.
 
Its 7 gigs...just re-download it?

I'll totally donate the 30 bucks cost if you need it. :P

I'd be p1ssed about the dead drive though...nothing worse than that dreaded clicking.
 
HavocXphere said:
Its 7 gigs...just re-download it?
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It will take a few minutes to recover it from my laptops hdd drive where it was initially downloaded to before being transferred to the desktop which has the dead drive.

Drive lasted 7 odd years so it's not a bad innings, would have been great if would have lasted another 7.
 
My 4 year old 2TB Seagate internal HDD has been complaining this week. I'll have to double check cables and I guess find a good program to check the disk.

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No dog...cable is unlikely to be the issue.

As I said...HDDs generally don't throw false positives. Any kind of hdd warnings mean you need to watch your back.

I've found the windows event log to be remarkably useful in this regard...for some reason hdd fails seem to show up there earlier than on the SMART records (opinion, not fact).
 
Drive failures suck. End of last year had 4 drive failures within 2 months, all different drives bought at different times and connected to different PCs.

Luckily no major data loss but decided to back up my whole media library to tape to be safe.
 
HavocXphere said:
No dog...cable is unlikely to be the issue.

As I said...HDDs generally don't throw false positives. Any kind of hdd warnings mean you need to watch your back.

I've found the windows event log to be remarkably useful in this regard...for some reason hdd fails seem to show up there earlier than on the SMART records (opinion, not fact).
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Oh well, I have moved all the stuff off that I don't want to lose.

I suppose there's only a 3 year warranty on a Seagate purchased around late 2010?
 
One of my internal 1TB Seagate (ST31000528AS) HDD's which I bought in 2010 has an accumulative running time of 2½ years with over 4,500 start/stop cycles.

hdd1.jpg


Still 100% strong on S.M.A.R.T stats. Here's to another 895 days I hope. :D
 
genetic said:
One of my internal 1TB Seagate (ST31000528AS) HDD's which I bought in 2010 has an accumulative running time of 2½ years with over 4,500 start/stop cycles.

hdd1.jpg


Still 100% strong on S.M.A.R.T stats. Here's to another 895 days I hope. :D
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Same model over here, except its on 24-7.

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genetic said:
One of my internal 1TB Seagate (ST31000528AS) HDD's which I bought in 2010 has an accumulative running time of 2½ years with over 4,500 start/stop cycles.

hdd1.jpg


Still 100% strong on S.M.A.R.T stats. Here's to another 895 days I hope. :D
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Colour me amazed! I never thought Seagates were capable of this. Or was it WDs? Or Toshibas? Or Hitachis?

:p :D
 
Thanks Rickster :)

Should one use this program to remap bad sectors? Is formatting the drive a good idea? Obviously not a good idea to put anything important on such a HDD and one would expect it to fail completely in the not too distant future.

CrystalDiskInfo 2TB HDD stats.png
 
StrontiumDog said:
Thanks Rickster :)

Should one use this program to remap bad sectors? Is formatting the drive a good idea? Obviously not a good idea to put anything important on such a HDD and one would expect it to fail completely in the not too distant future.

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A HDD remaps bad secotrs automatically, I recommend you backup whats important and toss it.

A good way to keep this from happening again is to leave your pc on 24/7 so that it doesnt stop and start all the time.
 
Perfect example of why you should keep everything in the cloud.
 
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