Hard Drive Headaches
February 4th, 2010 | by The Doc |RootbeerTapper asked:
Backup..Backup..Backup… Copyright: 2006 CBS News. This video was uploaded for Educational learning purposes only and is owned by its respectable owner CBS.
21 Responses to “Hard Drive Headaches”
By Hagledesperado on Feb 6, 2010 | Reply
That was twenty years ago (yes, twenty). Today the moving parts are much smaller, faster and suspectible to damage. If your hard disk hiccups, it means it’s practically dead, it just doesn’t know it yet. It seems you have the theoretical background, but you haven’t recovered many hard drives in the last few years, have you?
By TellianGun on Feb 7, 2010 | Reply
You can issue the HDD to skip bad sectors (reducing a little storage) and so the bad sectors will rarely multiply
By Hagledesperado on Feb 9, 2010 | Reply
Hardly seems worth reducing the HDD capacity to 1/10. What if the whole drive fails? Besides, in my experience, once you got one bad sector, it multiplies quickly. The only sensible thing to do is backing up to another physical drive, preferably located in a separate computer (in case of total system f**kup), and even more preferably at different geographic location (in case of fire or other disaster). Backing up on the same drive is just evil.
By TellianGun on Feb 11, 2010 | Reply
No way! It’s true. for example if you make 10 copies of a file on a HDD, it stores on different sectors. Practically if the sector where you have the original file fails, you can skip it and get to a sector where a copy is.
By lukosrage on Feb 11, 2010 | Reply
lol just run raid, its cheap now. Also its easy to swap platters.
By alwaysmc2 on Feb 12, 2010 | Reply
No thanks, I don’t swing that way.
By deathshrub on Feb 13, 2010 | Reply
…fuck you.
By jdavidbakr on Feb 17, 2010 | Reply
Seriosly? If the drive dies then you can’t get anything off of it. Backing up to the same drive will allow you to recover a file if you accidentally delete it or need to go back to an older version but it won’t help if the hard dlive fails. Bacukp to another drive.
By haloooodude on Feb 19, 2010 | Reply
lol, did you see his face at 0:16, I thought he was going to cry or throwup lol.
By haloooodude on Feb 22, 2010 | Reply
Actually the processor is the heart of the computer. The Hard Drive is the brain of saving information.
By haloooodude on Feb 24, 2010 | Reply
People who poot 400GB of **** on hard drives are obvisouly sick! But backup is the most important!
By PockyBum522 on Feb 25, 2010 | Reply
No, burn your important data to DVDs or at least copy it to another computer and get a new drive now.
By Hagledesperado on Feb 26, 2010 | Reply
Back up on the same drive? You’re kidding, right?
By captain150 on Feb 26, 2010 | Reply
They mention about how fragile these things are. While that’s true (can’t drop them very far) they are also very reliable when handled properly. Hard drive failure rates are less than 1% annually. So buy 100 drives some will be DOA, aside from those, maybe 1 will actually fail out of 100. For comparison, failure rates for everything else in a computer are higher.
Very impressive considering how precise hard drives are. So yes backup but the chances of your hard drive dieing tomorrow are remote.
By starbasehollywood on Mar 2, 2010 | Reply
Be nice when we don’t need those clunky drives. Watch Dr Jarvis come out with something. Then we have to give it mouth to mouth or rather machine, and get shocked across the room. Ya boot it up and the first thing it says is “Sorry about that”. Folks, backup is no joke. If ya don’t, someday you will learn.
By alwaysmc2 on Mar 5, 2010 | Reply
The hard drive isn’t the only moving part.
There’s also cooling fans.
By NetCaster on Mar 6, 2010 | Reply
Hmmm let see, my hard drive (80MB SCSI)thats been like 7 years old is still working.
By cpnjack on Mar 8, 2010 | Reply
It’s asking for trouble. If they’re both connected to the same machine, a power spike could kill them both.
By scstraus on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
backing up anywhere is better than not backing up. I’ve gotten by on harddisk backups (many of them) for a while, because they can be done automatically on a regular basis. I don’t have time to switch the disks needed to backup 120gb of data!
By joos351 on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
Spend the money, buy Spinrite, job done!!!
By hopseflopsen on Mar 9, 2010 | Reply
I’m always told that backing up on another harddrive is the wrong thing to do…