HDD Died

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So one of my 3tb seagate barracudas died yesterday in my server. Little upset but im not crying over it nothing that cant be replaced. However in 15 years and multiple drive changes this is the first one ive lost and ive lost a little faith in them as its died just 4 weeks outside of warranty.

So any suggestions on a replacement that isnt going to go boom and make me want to hit something really hard
 
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R.I.P HDD :(

Maybe its ur airflow within ur case m8. If the heat builds up inside ur case it can be bad for ur computer parts. The first things to burn up are mostly GPU & CPU, but ur ram and HDD can suffer aswell. Maybe u should check that before u buy a fancy HDD, which can go to an early grave aswell :< !
 
Its in an antec 900 2 120s at the front a 120 intake at the side and a 200mm removing heat at the top
 
surprising, i honestly can remember the last time i encountered a hard drive dying completely.


have you tried recovering it?



OT slightly i've got a old 750gig samsung that is probably 7 years old thats been in use 24/7 over that time, Windows has been telling me for the last year that its dying but it still keeps chugging away quite happily, obviously it contains nothing more than a pile of mkvs that could be easily replaced if and when it does fail but modern drives are amazing
 
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Does it show up in BIOS?

The reason I ask is my server had a dynamic disk in it that just decided to 'disappear' from windows recently. On closer inspection the volume had actually failed to mount. No matter what I tried, it just would not re-mount and I was close to giving up.

However the volume itself seemed to be in one piece, so I just used some software to copy the volume onto a new drive (Basic this time!) and all was well.
 
No it doesn't. Not in the BIOS, not recognized by windows or mac, apparently it was a hardware failure, so no amount of software can do anything.
 
I also had a Seagate 3TB fail this week, luckily it was in a drive pool with redundancy so not too much damage data wise, just the expense of replacing it. I went for a WD Red replacement as my desktop is effectively running as a server nowadays. I figured a drive optimised for NAS would be a better suit and the Red comes with an extra year's warranty.

To the person that lost all their photos, I started using Crashplan this year. £3/month to backup to their cloud service, just switch it on and let it run in the background. It's a bit late now I know but worth looking into.

There are 2 types of people in this world, those who backup and those who have never had a hard drive fail.
 
It is the first drive ive ever had die on me so not bad for 15 years. It was intermittently showing up in the bios yes but getting massive i/o errors wouldnt re-format and a fair amount of smart errors, although "smart" seemed to think it was still ok. Just replaced it with the same model for now will re-investigate once 5/6tb drives become cheaper
 
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