On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I believe that all drive manufacturers have some capacities or
> technologies that do not hold up well.
Absolutely true--and of course they themselves know well which drives
are holding up well and which they aren't. Sadly, they don't share
On Fri, 5 Nov 2010, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> I have been experiencing sudden fails of WD drives since the 1980s or
> 1990s, we used to have them in student workplace PCs together with other
> brands during the 1990s (until I switched to thin clients without HDDs).
Rolf-Werner,
Over the pas
About external drives: I have a 500GB WD MyBook drive, and a great
feature is that the disk spins down if idle for more than 10 minutes or
so.
Beware that some of these USB drives need too long to spin up,
causing problems when using them in RAID confi
Browsing through this thread this morning I thought "must have been a WD
drive..."
> I have the invoice here: purchased 2 December 2009. It's a WD drive so
> certainly still under warranty.
Until I read this...
I have been experiencing sudden fails of WD drives since the 1980s or
1990s, we
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> As in "The only reason it stays on its perch is because it's screwed there"?
Jenny,
Glued, not screwed.
Brought it to the vendor and they put it on their test rig. Soon it showed
read and write errors so they gave me a new one.
Rich
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On 4 November 2010 17:47, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I don't think the drive is resting; it's deceased.
>
As in "The only reason it stays on its perch is because it's screwed there"?
Jenny
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On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 02:34:30PM -0400, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> > 'Self-healing' bad sector errors... but maybe I'm just paranoid. Do SATA
> > drives do bad sector remapping, and do they do it well? Who knows...
>
> Certainly they do. I recommend checking the SMART firmware status by
> runni
On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:52 PM, wrote:
> On 04.11.2010 18:41, Dale Amon wrote:
>> I've had USB connected drives appear to be failing
>> but then work fine after powering down and reconnecting
>> them.
Could happen...
>> I've also had a drive that did not have good enough
>> air flow and appeare
On Thu 04 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:
>Good local vendors are worth the higher prices we pay because the service
> can be outstanding.
I fully agree.
About external drives: I have a 500GB WD MyBook drive, and a great
feature is that the disk spins down if idle for more than 10 minutes or
s
On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 06:52:48PM +0100, madworm_de.dirv...@spitzenpfeil.org
wrote:
> 'Self-healing' bad sector errors... but maybe I'm just paranoid. Do SATA
> drives do bad sector remapping, and do they do it well? Who knows...
I have multiple copies including offsite so losing one won't
mat
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, madworm_de.dirv...@spitzenpfeil.org wrote:
>>> Good local vendors are worth the higher prices we pay because the
>>> service
>>> can be outstanding.
> 'can' is such a devilish little word. I agree the service should be
> outstanding, but quite often it is not.
Exactly
On 04.11.2010 18:41, Dale Amon wrote:
> I've had USB connected drives appear to be failing
> but then work fine after powering down and reconnecting
> them.
>
> I've also had a drive that did not have good enough
> air flow and appeared to have failed... but after I
> got another cooling fan in the
On 04.11.2010 18:26, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Thu 04 Nov 2010, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> Good local vendors are worth the higher prices we pay because the service
>> can be outstanding.
'can' is such a devilish little word. I agree the service should be
outstanding, but quite often it is not.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Dale Amon wrote:
> I've had USB connected drives appear to be failing but then work fine
> after powering down and reconnecting them.
Dale,
I've tried this.
> I've also had a drive that did not have good enough air flow and appeared
> to have failed... but after I got ano
I've had USB connected drives appear to be failing
but then work fine after powering down and reconnecting
them.
I've also had a drive that did not have good enough
air flow and appeared to have failed... but after I
got another cooling fan in the enclosure it worked
fine and the 'bad' sectors eve
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Dave Howorth wrote:
> I use a wiki to record such things - the actual command sequences, URL to
> useful pages and such like. Of course it depends on having another machine
> that hasn't failed and that is still running the wiki ...
Dave,
Good idea. I'll store all the rele
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> Good luck with the replacement.
Jenny,
This is a local vendor with two stores, and they've always been solid.
When the motherboard video/north bridge chip failed a couple of weeks ago
they sold me a less expensive CPU than I was considering to go wit
On 11/4/10 9:17 AM, Rich Shepard wrote:
I'll need to dig out the invoice and see if it's still under warranty,
then set up a replacement drive. Because I've had almost all the hard drives
last for years I'm surprised this one went so quickly. Have other dirvish
users experienced early backup
Jenny Hopkins wrote:
> On 4 November 2010 13:30, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> I have the invoice here: purchased 2 December 2009. It's a WD drive so
>> certainly still under warranty.
>>
>
> Funnily enough, I have had TWO WD 500GB drives used for back-up
> storage fail in the last 12 months. Hou
On 4 November 2010 13:30, Rich Shepard wrote:
> I have the invoice here: purchased 2 December 2009. It's a WD drive so
> certainly still under warranty.
>
Funnily enough, I have had TWO WD 500GB drives used for back-up
storage fail in the last 12 months. Housed internally, developed i/o
erro
On Thu, 4 Nov 2010, Jon Radel wrote:
> I had a really bad string of drives in external USB enclosures dropping
> dead a couple of years ago. I never pinned down whether it was something
> inherent to USB enclosures, my environment, or inadvertently purchasing a
> string of really cheesy hard drive
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