I hate it when I'm right. Maxtor Hard Drives again

[DS1]

My boss had me put one in a system for a networked share point, I told him I wasn't comfortable using a Maxtor drive for something like that without redundancy.

Did my weekend checks and the thing was offline, rebooted and it sounded like a clock ticking just a bit too quickly, tick tock tick tock 4 times a second.

Fucking pieces of shit.

:eyes: Good thing I do Friday backups I suppose.

[benburch]

1. Maxtor Sucks.

Then again, most drives suck any more. Use a RAID for things and a single drive failure is no problem.

[LynzM]

2. Ugh, that does suck.

Glad you had stuff backed up. Meh.

[matcom]

3. why don't you change your sig again?

:D

[DS1]

4. I'll get to that after restored everyone's shit

underneath their noses :D

[LilKim]

5. I have twin IBM 75 GB drives on my machine

Got them four years ago and filled them both up a couple of times. Never a problem. In fact in 18 years of owning various PCs I think I've had exactly one 'disk crash' of seriously fucked up cross linked files where the only solution was to reformat. And that was back in the late '80s with a, I think, Seagate 60 meg SCSI drive. I've never been able to understand how often people would talk about their hard disks dying. It's just never been my experience.

[DS1]

6. I don't think it liked the Dell Chassis it was in

too hot maybe, it was in a server that was never shut off. Until today of course.

The drive is currently in the freezer in a baggie, waiting for its final chance at life tomorrow.

[LilKim]

7. Ah, overheating

When I had my computer built (generic clone, commodity parts) the guy doing it recommended dual fans and vents for the drives which were top of the line at the time (I could've gone slightly bigger with 80 gig Maxtors but he said they sometimes had problems).

[redqueen]

8. Speaking of heat issues...

this building we're in cuts the air off Sat afternoon around 2 then doesn't turn it back on until midnight Monday... stingy bastards. x(

[DS1]

9. Yup

The genius architect who designed our office didn't think a moment about heat in the server room.

It's a police station, they have a grid of 2 by 5 27" televisions that are on all the time with camera feeds from around campus. The backs of those poke into the server room, and create that wall, while there's no actual thermostat inside where the computers are. The entire office is all one AC/Heat zone, so naturally the cooling hasn't been turned on once yet.

Stupid incompetent State contractors :eyes: