1.5TB Western Digital dead after one month.

Nate Silvers

Nate Silvers

Nate Silvers

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It was being really slow and then I ran a SMART test and it failed relocation units or something. Now it won't even recognise in bios. :( RMA time?
 
Checked all cables been trying for 2 hours. Just won't initiate. I hear it spin up then nothing. It has all my camcorder videos on it including my girlfriends trip to New York with 5 days of video. How can it just die.
 
Know the feeling, I had a Seagate 1.5tb fail just before Christmas. Sent it to a data recovery outfit who've reported that the firmware was corrupted (might be the 7200.11 issue as the drive is just over a year old) but they report the file structure is ok. Probably cost a bit but against time to rebuild and irreplaceable material may be worthwhile. There are lots of firms out there and most do free analysis and quotations.
Makes you wonder about the terms of the manufacturers warranties I know we can back up but why should they have terms that absolve them from any responsibility to recover data when possible. It seems that failures more often than not do not loose all the valuable data.
 
Is this a green by any chance? Had the same thing happen to me.1tb with loads of dvds on just died.I could hear it spin up but nothing. Check the PCB on the drive for scorching or rust type residue. Will post a pic when not sending from my phone.
 
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Yeah it's a green, I'll look for burnage later. Hurts to loose 800GB in one go. Yeah hard drives should have a better failure system. I checked with SMART and it said FAILED under reallocated sector count. It died before I had chance to backup.
 
Backup should be an ongoing thing, looks like you've learnt that the worst way.
I too learn this way and I now have my data RAID5'd on the server and then backed up to 2 external disks (might be swapping the second external to a webbased backup soon)

It cost me over £700 for a "14-21 day" recovery service and got back 60% of the data nearly 10 months later - something I'd like not to repeat.
Thankfully I managed to get back the all bar around 10 of my 6000+ irreplaceable photos.
 
PistolPete said:
Backup should be an ongoing thing, looks like you've learnt that the worst way.
I too learn this way and I now have my data RAID5'd on the server and then backed up to 2 external disks (might be swapping the second external to a webbased backup soon)

It cost me over £700 for a "14-21 day" recovery service and got back 60% of the data nearly 10 months later - something I'd like not to repeat.
Thankfully I managed to get back the all bar around 10 of my 6000+ irreplaceable photos.
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Yup,

My disaster ,although not as bad due to the DVD's being already backed up on disk it was still a pain in the backside leading me to build a windows home server.

Now I have all my data and laptops backed up on the server with duplication on and the server itself is backed up to external USB drives.

TBH is been a godsend as now I stream all my media to my PS3 from the WHS and it works brilliantly...Can't belive I was messing with windows 7 media center and playing the files locally.

Its so much better doing it this way.:)
 
It's alright when ya can, I can't afford backups of 1.5TB drives. I'm not liking these green drives they take ages to load up in explorer and seem unreliable. I'll get another though but if it happens again I'm switching.
 
easyrider

"...and the server itself is backed up to external USB drives..."
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Do you have your system HDD (C:\) backed up as well to an external HDDs?

Sorry to hear about your misfortune Nate...real bummer!
 
jbloggs said:
Do you have your system HDD (C:\) backed up as well to an external HDDs?

Sorry to hear about your misfortune Nate...real bummer!
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On the server?

No.

There is only the option to back up the shares.

This is not a problem as you just rebuild the server using the recovery CD
 
Nate Silvers said:
OMG my other 1TB green has just died! What the hell??

*NVM the power connector had slipped out!* Phewww
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Did you check the PCB?

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