Fucking Seagate

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Well, I think my 1TB hard drive crapped out, I come home and my uTorrent has a write to disk error, and its not listed under my computer.

PC wont boot with it connected, luckily I have a spare western digital 1TB hard drive to replace it with, I just now need to order an external enclosure and see if I can recover anything.

That HDD had my fucking MST3K episodes on it and I WILL NOT LOSE THEM  >






* Thankfully all my games are on other HDDs

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im curious to know, do you like manually switch out hdds every time you want to torrent or play a game or something, or do you have like 4 hdds always connected

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im curious to know, do you like manually switch out hdds every time you want to torrent or play a game or something, or do you have like 4 hdds always connected

Im using all 6 of my SATA internal connections

SATA 1 + 2 = RAID 0 for my games
SATA 3 = Windows Vista
SATA 4 = the 1 TB data dump
SATA 5 = Blu-Ray
SATA 6 = DVD-RW

EIDE = Windows XP

I left the box online at home in order to torrent the new FFIV OC Remix album, come home and the torrent said it couldn't write to disk, rebooted it and it wont boot with the drive connected.


I swapped the old 1TB out for a spare 1TB I have that wouldn't fit in my box and ordered an external enclosure off of newegg. If that enclosure fails I will have to send it off to a data recovery center which costs between $100 and $200. Its not even a year old

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jesus christ, im not even using 200 gigs on this hdd, maybe i need to torrent more porn

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jesus christ, im not even using 200 gigs on this hdd, maybe i need to torrent more porn

~650 - 700 gigs of what was on the TB hard drive was just MST3K, which was each episode, 10 seasons, an ISO and a .mpeg

[Ianki]

[quote author=lil d link=topic=4380.msg142884#msg142884 date=1269388019]
jesus christ, im not even using 200 gigs on this hdd, maybe i need to torrent more porn

~650 - 700 gigs of what was on the TB hard drive was just MST3K, which was each episode, 10 seasons, an ISO and a .mpeg
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http://www.dapcentral.org

also,

I left the box online at home in order to torrent the new FFIV OC Remix album

this sly comment made me titter.

[HeK]

This is why you build arrays.


At least you have yourself a five year warranty.

[Mission Difficult]

You might looking into acquiring Spinrite. It's a pretty pretty good utility. I've heard that seagate's consumer drives have been going downhill recently, but I've never had any problems with them.

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[quote author=lil d link=topic=4380.msg142884#msg142884 date=1269388019]
jesus christ, im not even using 200 gigs on this hdd, maybe i need to torrent more porn

~650 - 700 gigs of what was on the TB hard drive was just MST3K, which was each episode, 10 seasons, an ISO and a .mpeg
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http://www.dapcentral.org

also,

I left the box online at home in order to torrent the new FFIV OC Remix album

this sly comment made me titter.
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Too bad the dap doesnt have a 400gig zip file for me to download everything from huh?

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Mm. Superior WD is superior.

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Mm. Superior WD is superior.

false

[Didzo]

[quote author=Gump link=topic=4380.msg142914#msg142914 date=1269391681]
Mm. Superior WD is superior.

false
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WD is awesomesauce.

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[quote author=Gump link=topic=4380.msg142914#msg142914 date=1269391681]
Mm. Superior WD is superior.

false
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WD is awesomesauce.


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This is only the 2nd hard drive I've ever had go bad, the other was a Maxtor, all of my others are WD

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Well I can confirm that it spins so at least the motor isn't bad

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So....I bought an external SATA enclosure for the drive, hook the drive up, plug into external sata port, windows freezes.

Ok, so I hook it up via USB, and it doesn't detect anything, well at least I know the drive spins and nothing inside rattles.



The good news is the drive is still under warranty, so I'll at least won't have to pay for the replacement drive. All signs point to the circuit board being dead, so hopefully it will be fairly cheap for the recovery company to get the data off of it. I'll let everyone know how that turns out and I'm going to send a nasty letter to Seagate, I think that if a drive fails through no fault of your own within a reasonable amount of time (ie. Manufacturer's warranty) they should also cover pulling any data off of it, if its defective they should cover all related costs. It would be as if a part failed on a car resulting in an accident and the manufacturer saying they'd cover the cost of repairs for that part, but for anything else you are own your own.  >

[HeK]

The good news is the drive is still under warranty, so I'll at least won't have to pay for the replacement drive. All signs point to the circuit board being dead, so hopefully it will be fairly cheap for the recovery company to get the data off of it. I'll let everyone know how that turns out and I'm going to send a nasty letter to Seagate, I think that if a drive fails through no fault of your own within a reasonable amount of time (ie. Manufacturer's warranty) they should also cover pulling any data off of it, if its defective they should cover all related costs. It would be as if a part failed on a car resulting in an accident and the manufacturer saying they'd cover the cost of repairs for that part, but for anything else you are own your own.  >

It's similar to how your car insurance covers damage to your car and it's occupants, but not the contents.
Just because your laptop got smashed in the accident, why should they cover it?

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It's similar to how your car insurance covers damage to your car and it's occupants, but not the contents.
Just because your laptop got smashed in the accident, why should they cover it?

You're talking about car insurance, I'm talking about the manufacturer's warranty on the car, and there's a difference there. I purchase car insurance to cover for liability if I cause any damage to my car or other's property (their car/person/home, etc). If I damage someone else's car and they had valuable cargo, I (or my insurance) is most certainly liable.

However, if I buy a new car from say Toyota, and it has a 100,000 mile warranty, should any part go bad, they cover it, should a part...oh let say...the accelerator, goes bad and results in damage to the car or someone else's car they are liable for that since it was a defect.

This is the logic I am following, I know I'm not going to get shit back for it. "We will not cover any data loss" is probably there in plain language with the warranty agreement, but that doesn't mean I can't bitch to them about a part that is generally built to last many years going completely bad within less than a year and a half and costing me money that's outside the scope of simply repairing/replacing the part. Not only that they're going on my list of "do not buy from" along with Maxtor.

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didn't you recently burn mst3k for an aunt or something? you could always try borrowing those back (if ofc, they exist and i'm not completely off my rocker)

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didn't you recently burn mst3k for an aunt or something? you could always try borrowing those back (if ofc, they exist and i'm not completely off my rocker)

I could, and I could also just re-download the torrents, the real time problem was converting all the AVIs to ISOs, a process which takes ~1 - 1.5 hours per episode and chews up all my CPU, took over a year to do that

Set one in the morning and one at night, though I suppose I could remote desktop in every hour or so if I ever needed to do it again. Assuming its not more than $500 to recover everything I'll probably just pay for it, especially considering I had a bout of good luck with Asus doing $700+ worth of repairs on my laptop for free.

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If you schedule windows chkdisk to run at at windows boot it might be able to fix the drive and make it work again. I had a drive 'die' on me the technical support people all said I would have to replace it but after I did that it worked again just fine.