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Frant
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Fuck, a somewhat important 1TB mechanical drive is about to die. It keeps disappearing when I try to use it. I've disabled the drive for now and I've ordered a 4TB drive hoping I can rescue the data to the new drive. Fuck me if I can't get the old drive to work again.
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 13:21 Post subject: |
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@Frant Depending on what the underlying issue is, most likely you can recover this data at a dedicated data recovery shop, down to removing the magnetic platters from the housing and importing the data that way. If it is really important (not “old dirty porn”  ), you will most likely be able to get it back, at a cost.
Going forward, I do suggest a NAS with at least 1 disk of parity for exactly these situations. Drives at the 4TB range are so cheap nowadays, it’s a crime not to. 2-4 bay NASes aren’t that expensive either.
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Frant
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 14:01 Post subject: |
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I think it's the controller going bad. And yeah, for the last ~15 years I've been thinking about getting a backup system. I just haven't gotten to it (after a number of fatal HD crashes). I need to sort out the backup solution.
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 14:48 Post subject: |
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Now is the best time to do it.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 15:09 Post subject: |
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do you get a ticking noise when the drive powers up? then it might be a head-crash
i solved this once by opening the drive and putting the read-write head back in parking position. the HDD still works today
however in most cases this will probably kill your HDD so proceed w caution^^
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Frant
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 15:20 Post subject: |
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| pho08 wrote: | do you get a ticking noise when the drive powers up? then it might be a head-crash
i solved this once by opening the drive and putting the read-write head back in parking position. the HDD still works today
however in most cases this will probably kill your HDD so proceed w caution^^ |
Nah, it just disappears from Windows when I try to access it.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 17:24 Post subject: |
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Depending on age, I’d recommend buying a new MAS for newer SATA support and performance.
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| Posted: Mon, 4th Mar 2024 19:03 Post subject: |
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If you have enough balls, patience and income, you can try and buy the same model, the opening up the old one and move the plates to the new one. With some luck you'll find some utub video with the disassembly steps by rajesh/sadik
| boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote: | | i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then |
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Frant
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Mar 2024 09:26 Post subject: |
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nothing to worry about. have you replaced the sata cable when connecting the new drive?
and yes, simply dont store anything important on that thing
about the power on hours: check the label on the drive itself, the manufacturing date is written there. high possibility that you bought i max 6 months after it was produced. the wd1002faex series is from ~2010, so could be possible if your computer is running almost 24/7?
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Frant
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| Posted: Thu, 14th Mar 2024 11:30 Post subject: |
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| Janz wrote: | nothing to worry about. have you replaced the sata cable when connecting the new drive?
and yes, simply dont store anything important on that thing
about the power on hours: check the label on the drive itself, the manufacturing date is written there. high possibility that you bought i max 6 months after it was produced. the wd1002faex series is from ~2010, so could be possible if your computer is running almost 24/7? |
Uhm, yes, it's been running 24/7 for the last decade at least.
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Mar 2024 10:41 Post subject: |
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Just buy a RAID 0 solution, then you will have two HDD's that can screw up.
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| Posted: Sun, 17th Mar 2024 14:44 Post subject: |
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So RAID 1 it is. Sorry my days as B̶O̶F̶H̶ sysop are long gone.
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Frant
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| Posted: Mon, 18th Mar 2024 03:10 Post subject: |
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If I was REALLY in need of a "safety net" I'd go with a RAID 5 redundancy stripe set (or similar). One drive goes down, the other four drives can recreate all the data lost on that drive. But I'll stick with Macrium Reflect to back up important stuff to my new 4TB drive.
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but now is the time for you to think about a backup strategy (harddrives are cheap, but maybe think about cloud storage and encrypting the files)
