*clicks*

*clicks*

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oh noes the click of death

Awwww~ uwu

*magic smoke*

>Stops working out of nowhere
>Spend a day troubleshooting and rushing to the store to get a new drive
>next day try the trick with disconnecting the read cable while leading the power in for 30 minutes x2
>drive fixed
>two c: drives, out a decent amount of cash and got an external usb to ssd connector
Hm.

magic smoke as in electronic smoke
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>explodes
>shrapnel hits jugular
>bleed out

good thing there's no way to manipulate rpm through software haha l;)

...

What is this meme? My hard drive clicks every time I start it up.

fucking wd

*cries evrytiem*

mine sounds like a klaxon when it spins up, did it since first day out of the box

brrrr brrrr, vrooooooom

Too bad I do offline raid1

My 2TB Barracuda from 2013 just went offline during work few days ago and now it clicks every so often. Smart is clean apart from a single End-to-end error it got when it went down.
It's my second Seagate drive and the second drive to fail (preceded by failed 1TB barracuda).

I'm sure as heck that my next drive won't be a Seagate.

...

>have 64gb ram drive, always powered
>it clicks

Well, my data is safe now and the drive still works, at least that's good. I consider my lesson learned.
Meanwhile WD Black from 2008 still runs perfectly fine.

What's a good meme HDD these days? Do newer Caviar Blacks still sound like a jet engine?

you are not funny, fuck off back to 9gag

Fuck :DDDDD
I was about to buy 4tb from Seagate, should I buy 4tb but at 5600 rpm from other brand?

HGST

I wouldn't bother with 5400rpm in a desktop, that's waay to slow.
Personally I'm shelling out for a 4TB WD Black, fuck, I hope it'll be as good as the one I already have.

you don't need 4TB

no, you do not.

Shitgate owner spotted.
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>there are "people" on Sup Forums RIGHT NOW who own seagate or WD HDDs
I hope you idiots got your data backed up.

Clicks internally

Assuming HGST drives fail the least, which specific model of them offers the best bang for the buck?

>you don't need 4TB
You need an 8TB. At the very least.
You'll fill it in a month.

FUCKING 3TB SEAGATE


REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

I hated it. I HATED IT. FUCK

that must mean you own Toshiba drives

I'd say that 5400RPM is decent for stuff like holding music, movies, and books. Anything intensive like hosting a HTPC or games, no. But general storage shouldn't be too bad.

>owning spinning plates in year 2017

>backing up your shit on drives that aren't even understood well enough to have methods for manual data recovery
:^)

For HGST check Deskstar.
Toshiba and Hitachi are also bretty good. Always check model failure rate before making purchase.

Got an HGST after my WD failed.

Nice placebo, you bought a WD drive.

1.5TB were just as bad. Just disposed of three of these drives. And the 4TB were also shit I think.

8TB+ seem fine. But eh, always have RAID+backup [or redundant scale-out] storage if data needs to be safe. Can't stop the drives from failing.

No user, you're filing your HDDs because there's a hole you won't fill in your life, admit you have a problem

i have 500GB of all music i can ever need in two languages, personal photos dont take that much space, other media you can just delete after youve passed it along via sneaker net

>relying on recovery instead of multiple copies
that said, spinning plates are cheaper so its the logical solution for more copies

> personal photos dont take that much space
Even if you have a DSLR that has 1/2 the resolution of a higher-end model [and less than 1/4 of a maximum resolution medium format digital] AND you do *compressed* rather than uncompressed RAWs, you should easily rack up some TBs over time.

*gets hotswapped and triggers an array rebuild*

> put CD in drive
> spins up fast
> Drive is right at head height
> CD exploding death background thoughts while playing game

This
Literal tank

In 20 years, I've yet to have an HDD fail catastrophically. Instead they start corrupting data and causing small sectors of data to become inaccessible behind the scenes causing the most bizarre OS glitches I have ever seen, but leaving all the data I need to back up (mostly) accessible.

I think I'm covered from most things. Got one full offline backup of everything, a 2nd copy offline backup of my movie/music collection (cause it took years to rip/torrent it all and I don't want to redo it again)
and a 2nd copy offline backup of my X Rated content and E-book collection.
The server is connected to a ups and the data is on Raid 5 and Raid 1 Volumes.

That probably means you've never used many HDD and even the few you had not nearly 24/7.

HDD do fail catastrophically. I've completely lost a dozen or so and only 2 of them were externals that were dropped or kicked due to my own stupidity.

The rest was head crashes, electronics board failure (this not recently), and I think even one drive motor failure and a bunch of failures I didn't bother to even look at.

PIECE OF SHIT

>CD exploding
Happened to me once, it was Shogun: Total War.

>63777777

Fuck

please. nobody uses IDE anymore.

Every HDD I've had is in my computer right now.
-One has 4.7 GB and has 104k power-on hours. It's virtually unusable now, you can write to it but it will corrupt the file system in 2 hours. It got to that state gradually.
-One has 50 GB and has 98k power-on hours. I still use it to store porn on an encrypted drive. As long as you don't do a lot of writes it's fine, but it often fails to get recognized on start-up.
-One has 500GB is on 54k power-on hours and has virtually no problems.
-One has 1TB, is up to 32k power-on hours and has had zero problems

HDDs CAN fail suddenly and catastrophically, but they don't always.
In fact most don't. It's like smoking. Smoking CAN cause lung cancer and will decrease your AVERAGE lifespan substantially, but actually MOST smokers will go their whole life and only experience the short-to-medium term negative effects of smoking and never experience any of the catastrophic long-term ones. It's the old median vs mode thing.

I'm certainly not advocating either smoking or keeping no backups (I certainly back up).

I would love to see the smart attributes for those drives

This, happened to me, drive got flagged by SMART software and in Windows System Event log. Gave error:disk structure is damaged and requires repair. But the drive had been running 24/7 (close to that) and for 2 yrs in my server. Only lost maybe a few days of files, but that I was able to replace, lucky still had them all on my desktop. Even though drive was in a Raid 1 setup I replaced them both and restored from backup. This was back when 1TB drive was considered huge. I've had hdd do the click of death thing to, but it was in a desktop system.

For some reason movies are the first to get affected by drive errors. I had a drive flaking out on me and of all the mix of files on it only movies were affected.

Well at least they stayed true to the name

Because movies are massive files consisting of a log of different parts including metadata.

I use rsync to backup my drives. Is this a bad thing? I know RAID isn't meant for backups

Well, 90 instead of 98. Then again it's stays off 95% of the time in the past 5-8 years or so.

Last time I tried pulling SMARTs from the 4.7GB they showed all-zero so I'm not going to fuss trying to get the computer to recognize it.

this
if you don't adhere to my own personal needs, you're an idiot

Sup Forums I just bought ST4000DM005
Bully me plz.

WD aquired HGST but they didnt change the manufacturing process for them

I've had good luck with the 3TB version. Got 4 in my server, going on 8 months no issues yet. They've been stressed numerous times, doing backup image of the raid 5 volume really makes them work/generate heat.

i have an hd in my comp that has been clicking randomly for like 6 months. i have everything backed up on it, just seeing how long it lasts. i'm surprised it's lasted this long

Whats better a Nas or a server?
Im really scare of data loss, and in the long run I will probably need more space.
did you buy normal ones?

SSD don't break

I have 5TB worth in games from Steam, pirated shit, emus and roms. Fuck off nigger.

Terminology where these aren't exclusive aside, it doesn't really matter as long as both run Linux (most "NAS" things you can buy do) and are power efficient builds.

>pirated shit
thief

>implying intellectual property is in any way just or protected by the NAP

i hate external harddrives. they break too easily. i am going to create a raid drive out of a bunch of 32 gb flash drives

Wow, you've just invented ssd's.