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Vigo:
Ya know, I never once had a hard drive fail on me. Plenty of data corruption issues, and I have had to reformat from it, I also have had drives with larger bad sectors, but never a fragged HDD. I got plenty of those "evil" seagates as well. Is this really that common of a problem?
lilshawn:
i keep thinking about the OP's roms... so what. you can download them from about 1000 sites on the net. it's not like he had to spend days and days to rip each and every one from original roms.
as someone who has to deal with 100's of drives in our business. yes they crap out. I'm changing a drive at LEAST once a month.
no it's not worth it for us to mess with it we just replace them. but we have backups/installation disks for everything.
if my work computer drive crapped out right now, i'd be bummed cause it's working how i like it, but it's not a big deal to download everything i need off the net.
if my home computer drive crapped out... it would suck but i also run a separated drive for the OS. so if the OS drive dies, no biggie. all my programs and misc data is backed up to a 2nd drive which is dumped on another USB hard drive and my music/video on a 3rd drive in the computer is backed up to a 4th. (paranoid much?)
so yes, i value my data but yes i have a plan should the unexpected happen and i have about 3 layers of protection for my important stuff and 2 for the misc.
my suggestion. buy 2 new drives...set the system up how you like it...then CLONE the drive. if it goes south...you plop in the clone and you're golden. :cheers:
ark_ader:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on May 30, 2013, 11:43:24 am ---the more you try to use a faulty hard drive, the less likely you will be able to recover anything from it. The continued use is going to keep hammering away at the disk till it's dead.
and no, don't put it in the freezer. all you are going to do is wreck it more.
stick it away for now until you find someone who can hook it up and try and pull the data off it.
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Like I would take any advice from a dork like him. The hard drive in the freezer for all morning? What a dummy. Actually I like customers like him. Those idiots keep me in work. :laugh2:
Howard_Casto:
--- Quote from: Vigo on May 30, 2013, 04:38:22 pm ---Ya know, I never once had a hard drive fail on me. Plenty of data corruption issues, and I have had to reformat from it, I also have had drives with larger bad sectors, but never a fragged HDD. I got plenty of those "evil" seagates as well. Is this really that common of a problem?
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It's quite a common problem. If a pc gets dropped the read head can get knocked out of alignment and that'll ruin a drive. This happens on laptops a lot. Also like any moving part, the bearings eventually wear out. I've went through a ton of drives over the years and nearly every pc I work on for somebody that won't boot up has a ruined drive.
It has to do with moving massive files around a lot in the "wear out from use" scenario. Since we are in this hobby I'm surprised you haven't run into the issue before. I know of at least two of my drives back in the day that were probably ruined due to mame.
Dawgz Rule:
I am with ark_ader on this one. The freezer isn't the first thing I would do with a hard drive that has issues but when all else fails, in the freezer it goes. I can count a number of times where giving it the deep freeze has allowed me (or one of my coworkers) to pull the data off of a drive. In the big scheme of things that may turn out to be a pretty low percentage for success but each and every time it saved us a ton of work.
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