Hard Drive Headaches
Thursday, February 4th, 2010 at
4:59 am
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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?
You can issue the HDD to skip bad sectors (reducing a little storage) and so the bad sectors will rarely multiply
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.
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.
lol just run raid, its cheap now. Also its easy to swap platters.
No thanks, I don’t swing that way.
…fuck you.
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.
lol, did you see his face at 0:16, I thought he was going to cry or throwup lol.
Actually the processor is the heart of the computer. The Hard Drive is the brain of saving information.
People who poot 400GB of **** on hard drives are obvisouly sick! But backup is the most important!
No, burn your important data to DVDs or at least copy it to another computer and get a new drive now.
Back up on the same drive? You’re kidding, right?
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.
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.
The hard drive isn’t the only moving part.
There’s also cooling fans.
Hmmm let see, my hard drive (80MB SCSI)thats been like 7 years old is still working.
It’s asking for trouble. If they’re both connected to the same machine, a power spike could kill them both.
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!
Spend the money, buy Spinrite, job done!!!
I’m always told that backing up on another harddrive is the wrong thing to do…
Backup the most important backup of backups on dvds for extra safety of mind. They verify the dvd burned successfully and keep it safe.