On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:28, Fatih Tümen wrote: >> ... >> The noise you're describing is indicative of mechanical failure. > > That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a > sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom. Would > you call it a coincidence of running eix with the best before date of > the disk?
Total coincidence. It has nothing to do with eix - you'll likely be running something on the drive when it fails, that's not what causes the problem. Most hard-drive failures have nothing to do with being dropped. It's simply that hard-drives spin at 5,000 - 10,000 rpm, about the same speed as a car engine, but unlike a car engine they don't have an oil pump and a radiator and all that stuff to lubricate them. Hard-drives are simply prone to mechanical failure - wearing out, in other words, > There is a forensic lab quite close > to me but I doubt that they would bother with this or whether it would > worth the effort. They would probably bother if you paid them enough. I would probably consider $500 cheap, and might well expect to pay twice or several times that. In the cases of clicking drives I've had quite some success with ddrescue for no cost. Stroller.
