[drive failure] tell us which drives have failed on you

[Clanked]

Back in 04 I lost 3 80GB drives. Two were WD's the third was a Seagate.
At the time I attributed them dying to the motherboard. (This was the second computer I had ever built, so I have a better understanding now) I swapped the mobo+new drive, and its still running smoothly.

Thinking about it now, I can't picture a motherboard actually eating drives. But they wouldn't even recognize in a second computer I had.
Great, now I am sitting here pondering what actually happened.

[Redbeard]

Not to change the subject of your post Rob but maybe if dealing with the reactivations is time consuming / annoying we could help you come up with an alternative system?

I assume youre doing some reactivation / deactivation coding, maybe you could make a web interface where people could enter their info and automate it. Then you'd only have to personally see to cases (such as mine, a few days back) where people didnt have all their info.

Hmm.

Or maybe thats more work than just doing it manually haha I dont know.

[keyclone]

@Redbeard
the license switching isn't too big of a deal, and helps keep me on top of the questions (as i don't wander too far from the computer). it does eat my non-real-work time, thus killing my keyclone coding time... but i'm dealing with that.

i do have a plan i want to implement for the next release, and that is holding up the new version (that and the new visual studio requirement to push .net into the install of even the most basic apps... very annoying). the plan will allow the user to drive their own transfer, removing the time it takes for me to respond (i try to be fairly quick, but sometimes i sleep). hopefully i can resolve this soon.

[daviddoran]

I've had every brand fail on me at least once. I just buy what has the longer warranty now, and try to remember to keep everything backed up


*note to self, back up wow folders....

[Kaynin]

I have had several Maxtor's die on me (in the ~10Gb era) whilest all my WD's from that time kept working. Had 1 or 2 seagates too that I didn't have problems with.

I haven't had a harddrive die on me anymore in like 6 years or so though.

[Kaynin]

Back in 04 I lost 3 80GB drives. Two were WD's the third was a Seagate.
At the time I attributed them dying to the motherboard. (This was the second computer I had ever built, so I have a better understanding now) I swapped the mobo+new drive, and its still running smoothly.

Thinking about it now, I can't picture a motherboard actually eating drives. But they wouldn't even recognize in a second computer I had.
Great, now I am sitting here pondering what actually happened.

I had an ISA videocard way back (some 1mb vga card) that, when slotted on any type of motherboard just once and started up, it would destroy the mobo. I fried 2 mobo's with that videocard. Then figured it was the videocard that was doing it. Later on I wanted to test it to be sure, took an old working comp that wasn't worth anything anymore and installed that videocard. Start up, blackness. Swap for previous card, blackness again.

So, I wouldn't say it's impossible for a mobo to fry a harddrive. I've seen similar things happen. :P

[Hor]

Add a 250g Seagate to the mix ... I've had it for 4 years though, and it's been in constant use. So, I can't be too upset. It came the day I bragged to a friend about that computer being "ole reliable" lol. A couple of cheapo Rosewill Fans died and the drive overheated and failed. Now it boots, then freezes after a few seconds. So ... today I'm spending my day off putting in new fans (thermaltakes this time) new hard drive (a 500g Seagate) and my OS and software. This is going to be a long day.

[heffner]

Never had a failure in 20 years of using hard drives. Most likely due to buying new computers every couple of years though. The largest HD I have owned is 500GB. I typically buy Seagate or WD, but owned pretty much every brand at some point.

Everything else has failed on me though.

[aboron]

The most annoying failure I had was both the WD 36 Gig original model raptors I bought failed within the same week - i hooked them up individually to a different pc and ran WD's analysis tool and it confirmed them as both bad. Both were still under warranty, and the return location was down the block from work, so i saved shipping and dropped them off for repair. They are now running in a Raid1 array to boot my primary linux server from, hopefully they don't fail on the same day.


Second most annoying failure was 2 of the 5 160GB drives in my old raid5 array failed, they were Seagate 7200.8 series drives, but i was transporting them as bare drives in carriers not installed in the server and they failed when booted back up, so something may have physically happened to them on the drive to their new home.

[Hor]

Eww, addendum.

Looks like I won't be boxing for a while, unless I can actually box on my laptop. (which I doubt) Looks like I've had a big meltdown in the old rig, and it's an AMD Socket 939 so getting replacement parts is next impossible. RIP AM rig and your 7950 GTX!