WTF is it with hard drives failing?

Cleo · 2003-08-31, 06:13 PM

Damn, I'm sitting here working and my 120 gig AcomData FireWire drive that I use for backups makes this horrible grinding sound and dies.

It's dead, less then a year old so I just mailed their tech support about its warranty.

So far this year I've lost my boot drive, it was a Maxtor drive, lost the IBM drive that I used to replace it with, both 60 gig drives. I have a Western Digital drive now for my boot drive.

My clients have been losing a lot of drives this year as well, mostly Maxtor drives. All the drives have suffered mechanical failures where the drive breaks up inside.

Nothing is lost, it was just used for backups, but until it is replaced I'm working without a backup. Guess I better go pick up some blank DVD+R disks tomorrow.

2003-08-31, 06:13 PM	#1
Cleo Subversive filth of the hedonistic decadent West Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Southeast Florida Posts: 27,936	WTF is it with hard drives failing? Damn, I'm sitting here working and my 120 gig AcomData FireWire drive that I use for backups makes this horrible grinding sound and dies. It's dead, less then a year old so I just mailed their tech support about its warranty. So far this year I've lost my boot drive, it was a Maxtor drive, lost the IBM drive that I used to replace it with, both 60 gig drives. I have a Western Digital drive now for my boot drive. My clients have been losing a lot of drives this year as well, mostly Maxtor drives. All the drives have suffered mechanical failures where the drive breaks up inside. Nothing is lost, it was just used for backups, but until it is replaced I'm working without a backup. Guess I better go pick up some blank DVD+R disks tomorrow. __________________ Free Rides on Uber and Lyft Uber Car: uberTzTerri Lyft Car: TZ896289 Last edited by Cleo; 2003-08-31 at 06:16 PM..