Thread: Fixing a remote HD

Volume of writes will speed up failure, but it won't have the same impact as it does on a HHD.

^Anyone looking to put an SSD into their PC should take care, there's a number of things to do to reduce writes and set it up properly, more so if you are running WinXP rather than 7. I recently put a Samsung SSD into to a desktop on Win7, but the supplied CD came with good instructions and software to guide you through it.

^why put an SSD into a desktop? Are they more reliable now? What capacity tot he have?

^ Why? Speed. As for reliability come back to me in 2 years and I'll tell you if it is still working. I bought a 250GB one for about $170 AUD.

Originally Posted by Mr Earl

^why put an SSD into a desktop? Are they more reliable now? What capacity tot he have?

faster, which means you can open Word 2010 2 sec faster than you would normally,

for the majority of users, completely pointless, for heavy duty access to large Database in read mode, very useful

Originally Posted by Butterfly

for the majority of users, completely pointless,

How do you work that out, you spanner, apart from the speed, they are also quiet, a tenth of the weight of a hdd and consume a third of the power of a hdd, they are also a lot more durable with no moving parts

Originally Posted by Dillinger

Originally Posted by Butterfly

for the majority of users, completely pointless,

How do you work that out, you spanner, apart from the speed, they are also quiet, a tenth of the weight of a hdd and consume a third of the power of a hdd, they are also a lot more durable with no moving parts

Dillinger, it's Buttplug, he talks shit, ignore it.



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Oi PP! Can I have my plug adaptor back?

well the HD has just shit on my floor! nothing, dead as a dead thing.

put it in the freezer for 24 hours, and it will work again

Originally Posted by Marmite the Dog

Originally Posted by lom

Bollox, you get the quality you pay for.

3rd tier models by QA results are sold in Thailand. Fact.

This is from a former Western digital QA engineer that used to post of here.

Good to see how you trust that lass Is the info recent?

I have just ordered 5 WD 2TB to replace the 5 Seagate 1TB in my NAS of which 2 are due to break down any day now according to their SMART diagnostics data.
The Seagates are, except for one, not older than a year but they were originally bought over 2 years ago - 4 of them has been replaced on warranty with "refurbished" ones which doesn't have a warranty sticker so I can't claim them again..
The original ones lasted between 6 month - 2 years and the refurbished ones seems to have half of that lifetime in them before breaking down.

Originally Posted by lom

Is the info recent?

No - I don't think she's talking to me any more.

I want to change what I said about 3rd tier drives here. I reckon we're getting 6th tier drives as they all seem to be shit from either WD or Seagate.

I daren't look at any diagnostic programs as they'll probably inform me that all my drives are imminently going to self destruct.

the SMART info on some of my raid system have been indicating immediate failure for more than 6 months now

not sure if it's reliable at the end, or just a way to force you to buy new ones

well havn't tried the freezer trick, yet but luckily I had backed all my photo's up on photobucket, will do for now.

Originally Posted by poorfalang

open and remove everything apart from the disk and replace them from a identical drive, works everytime.

it seems you have not done this before - it is no where as easy as you make it sound , which you would know if you had tried it yourself

Originally Posted by Dillinger

It's because utorrent is starting before your external hd. Change utorrent to not run on start up

Originally Posted by Necron99

Is that the wireless one? The connection software is shit. That's why.

Originally Posted by Butterfly

is there a question here ? or just some random technical non-sense ? buy an iPad, at your age you shouldn't be left alone with a computer

There are two useful answers above and one totally useless one. First boiler room fvcker to call get's an institution price on an upcoming floater

I tried the freezer trick, didn't work, the DRive is recognized by the software but cant get any response from it.

the most important question - is there anything on the drive that is irreplaceable ?

does the drive spin up ?

what does the drive show in the my computer ?

Originally Posted by Albert Shagnastier

There are two useful answers above and one totally useless one. First boiler room fvcker to call get's an institution price on an upcoming floater

who left you out of jail, nutter

Originally Posted by peterpan

I tried the freezer trick, didn't work, the DRive is recognized by the software but cant get any response from it.

could be a fucked up partition map, possibly by a virus, highly unlikely though

time for the freezing water trick,

Originally Posted by peterpan

the DRive is recognized by the software but cant get any response from it

when you look at Disk management,
for that drive, what does it report under Status ?

diskmgmt.msc
paste or type into Start -
Search progs and files box

sounds complicated to me blue,I shall just wait till marmite comes around and put on my poor sad "old fart face", that will work.