What do you do when your hard drive breaks?

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Your hard drive may contain personal letters, emails, conversations, pictures, videos or maybe pirate software, films, music etc

So when/if it breaks within do you actually send it back?

Im looking at a new drive at the moment and the WD RE 5 year warrenty is more appeasling than the SE 3 year warrenty BUT not because I would send it back, just because it shows they have more confidence in it.

Just wondering how many people actually send them back and how many dont want the contents getting into anyone else's hands.
 
Yeah tricky decision, for me it'd depend on if someone would be able to use the data on the HD to commit fraud or identity theft against me or someone else. If it had such data on it, and I wasn't able to wipe it, then I'd write it off as a loss and take a sledgehammer to it.

I sent back my Deathstar to IBM which contained personal emails and some passwords, but only because I couldn't afford buying a new HD at the time.

Thesedays, I store sensitive data encrypted - either in an encrypted RAR file or encrypt the entire disk (in the case of my Linux fileserver, Linux makes that easy - never tried on Windows).

I bought a pair of WD5000YS's myself, seem decent disks, we have about 120 WD's at work of varying ages and models in workstations and servers and haven't had a failure yet. (The 4 120GB Maxtors ALL died and 2 out of 4 120GXP Deathstars died, 2 120GXP's still rockin' on!)
 
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i've only ever had to send two drives back

i don't keep anything important on any hard drives tbh, only my media, but i couldn't care less if anyone got a hold of it!

backups are more important to me :)
 
Thats the problem for me, i want to buy a 500g hard drive to backup my pictures / videos of my daughter. I am thinking it would be a risky thing to do if the Hard drive fails!! What else can i do though?
 
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Take the top off and let air inside. That will fix it. :) j/k

Buy flash based storage for the sensitive stuff?
 
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TC1 said:
Thats the problem for me, i want to buy a 500g harr drive to backup my pictures / videos of my daughter. I am thinking it would be a risky thing to do if the Hard drive fails!! What else can i do though?
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I will do the same but with 2 of them mirrored, when synology 20x units are in stock
 
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