Re: another dead HD, which do you use?
- From: artie <artie.m@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:03:33 -0700
In article <gsm5b11u2mo2ok641hqu376mmfqh2bnk9v@xxxxxxx>, martin
griffith <martingriffith@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 2 HD's dead this month, googleling for "Hard Drive Reliabilty" gives
> zillions of pages of adverts saying how reliable Our HD's are. Even
> tomshardware didnt go into it in detail
>
> What do you use?
>
> BTW I notice that my latest drive must not be exposed to more than
> 350G's of shock. I'd accept 100G's if they lasted longer...
>
To make sure my hd's are dead, I usually use a 1/4" carbide-tipped
drill bit. Put it in the drill press and punch through. That's large
enough to pass a drywall screw, which I use to attach the offending
device to a 4x4 in the garage.
The collection seems to have a large number of 2.5" IBM Travelstar
devices, most from colleagues at work.
The prize of the collection is a prototype 10KRPM SCSI device, 3.5
inch, full height. Sounded like a jet engine when it spun up. When it
died, it sounded like a jet engine trying to digest a stepladder (or
your choice of large undigestible object). That one took an extra long
drywall screw.
Disk drives are like tires (or tyres, depending on which side of the
Atlantic you're on). They *will* fail -- it's just a matter of when,
and how prepared you are when it happens.
Backups are your friend. I have a very, very scored 3.5 inch hd
platter at work to which has been affixed a clock movement. Written on
the platter is the question "Backed up recently?"
--
Namaste--
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