Hard drive failures and other hardware problems
11 Feb 2008 22:20:40 UTC
Topic 193508
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Just curious: anyone else experience problems with hardware while crunching? I just got my MacBook back after the hard drive failed last Thursday. That'll teach me for not activating Time Machine to back up my computer.
Hard drive failures and other hardware problems
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I doubt this is related to BOINC: Hard disc failure in MacBooks does not seem to be a particular rare event, to put it mildly.
CU
Bikeman
RE: I doubt this is
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Sorry if my post implied that I think the two are related. I don't. If I did, I wouldn't have put BOINC back on after getting a new hard drive installed. So, maybe a better way of phrasing my question would be: how common are hard drive (or other equipment) failures in the experience of the E@H community? And which manufacturer(s) (in your opinion) sells the worst equipment?
RE: RE: I doubt this is
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I started using UNIX on hard disk drives in 1981. They were called "Winchester" disks and enclosed in transparent plastic boxes. Failures happened every week and we took care to "dump" our filesystems daily on tape streamers. Today disks fail very rarely and nobody ever makes a backup. Tapes are gone.
Tullio
Harddrives?Crashes?Unless
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Harddrives?Crashes?Unless they fall,they work very well.(Even old ones like 1GB HDD from year "I don't know")
The best was series of 40GB HDD from Seagate,which have rubber around them,so even during work they are very resistant.(One such fell during write.Just picked up,checked by chkdsk and went on...no damage).
The worst?250GB from WD.Even when correctly unpowered,touching floor in less controled "flight" killed them instantly.
But those are rare events and can only happen when serving as external drives...
Well, unfortunately, it
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Well, unfortunately, it happened to me, however rare it may be. Most of my important data were recovered by the repair shop, but anything outside of my documents(like BOINC) were lost. As a result, I bought an external hard drive and activated Time Machine so if/when it happens again, I won't lose everything.
I'm also having to merge hosts, now that the projects think that I got a new computer. Nope, still the same MacBook, just with a new hard drive (a Seagate instead of a Fujitsu).
I've lost 4 Hardrives after
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I've lost 4 Hardrives after 2.5 ~3.5 Years, all 3,5" Samsung IDE (120-160GB) in the 24/7 Crunchers. No Smart Failure, always the Computer lost the drive at work. Reboot, no drive in Bios. Shut off, wait some time, hard drive is recognized but Windows crashes during boot up with lost of drive.
Waiting some hours (or a day), copying the drive with Acronis True Image (ignoring all errors from the source drive), Windows restarts with chkdsk and worked fine. No visible errors, perhaps there are defective files, don't know.
Only my 'used' computers are backed up on an external drive. Via USB and not via Network because of the high amount of Data.
I think hard disk will fail in the first month or after some years of use.
They say that putting a hard
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They say that putting a hard disk in your freezer is the best way to recover your data, but I never tried it.
Tullio