What killed my hard drive?

Discussion in 'General Chat' started by newsniche, May 11, 2009.

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    This weekend was a nightmare, my almost new OCZ solid state hard drive died on me.

    I lost a huge amount of data, I did have some backups but a lot was lost.

    That that be a warning to you make regular back ups.

    I am back to old reliable now using my Seagate IDE, no more new technology for me:mad:

    If there is anyone techy enough I have managed to acces the drive using some specialist software but all data later then a certain date was gone, Weird.

    My computer recognises the drive but it says another process has locked a portion of the file when I try to access it normally through windows explorer.
     
    newsniche, May 11, 2009 IP
  2. Kerosene

    Kerosene Alpha & Omega™ Staff

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    What were you using it for? SSD drives have a (very) limited number of read/writes before they die.

    I've got an EeePC that runs on 2 x SSD drives, and I've made sure that the swap file is disabled, and that all caching and temp files are written to a RAM drive. However... SSD is a time bomb, and all we can really do is prepare for the big bang.

    I trust my entire work/life/memories to SecondCopy. Backup, backup, backup. Daily, daily, daily.
     
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  3. Zirkon Kalti

    Zirkon Kalti Well-Known Member

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    You should backup your files regularly on different places.
     
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    .htaccess Peon

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    Which brand ??

    Solid state drives will soon replace all SATA and ATAs'.I think selected VAIOS are coming with SSD now a days.
     
    .htaccess, May 11, 2009 IP