Hard drive question

[camma83]

Its a sad day for my computer, I had a hard drive failure. I am tired of having problems with Western Digitals,This is my second failure in less then a year.. ANd i am tired of not being able to surf the web and get my TRS fix.......... So what hard drives do you guys recommend¿

 

[CJREX]

Seagate.

5 yr warranty.

 

[ArcticRaiders]

Its a sad day for my computer, I had a hard drive failure. I am tired of having problems with Western Digitals,This is my second failure in less then a year.. ANd i am tired of not being able to surf the web and get my TRS fix.......... So what hard drives do you guys recommend¿

Hmm... I have used WD in all of the computers I have built over the last 8 years and all of them are still running if the computer is still running. I use them in my computer and over all my computer may have been turned off for a total of 70 hours in the last 2 years and it is still running strong.

What size of hard drives are you using and what watts is your power supply?

 

[Hahnsb2]

Seagate and WD are really good. I prefer WD... Have you tried putting the hard drive in the freezer for a few hours and then hook it back up and see if you can recover any data?

 

[almostclueless]

Seagate.

5 yr warranty.

preach it, brother.

 

[4x4junkie]

I went through this maybe about two years ago, the general consensus was Seagate was best, Maxtor was junk (which happened to be the brand of drive I had go out, too), and WD was somewhere in the middle.

Seagate bought up Maxtor since then though, so those may be the same thing now, not sure.

 

[camma83]

I am a big fan of western digital hd's but i have lost a lot of data to them around .5 terabytes(sounds better than 500 gigabytes) , i would like to keep running them.

Have you tried putting the hard drive in the freezer for a few hours and then hook it back up and see if you can recover any data?

Ya i have done that before to get data back, but at the moment i can't install an os on my other drives because i don't want to loose more data and to back it up i need a running OS to do so :\

 

[metalmacguyver]

Seagate and WD are really good. I prefer WD... Have you tried putting the hard drive in the freezer for a few hours and then hook it back up and see if you can recover any data?

freezer? how does that work?

 

[CJREX]

Ya i have done that before to get data back, but at the moment i can't install an os on my other drives because i don't want to loose more data and to back it up i need a running OS to do so :\

Don't install an OS on your drive, boot Puppy Linux from a CD/USB and recover all your Windoze stuff.

Go to http://puppylinux.com/ and click on the downloads. Download the ISO and burn it to a CD. If your BIOS supports it, you can get a version that installs on a USB drive and boot from there.

Basically, it boots a full Linux and runs totally in RAM. The entire OS is <100mb. Remove the CD/USB drive and then you can read all the data from your Windoze HDD.

Transfer all your data to a USB drive, burn it to a DVD, transfer it to a network folder, whatever you have handy.

I frequently use Puppy to recover data from hosed XP machines.

Works great and it has one of my favorite descriptions, FREE

 

[smokey]

i use knoppix instead of Puppy only because I like the interface better.
Never had a problem witht the WD drives all have been solid, the Maxtor's I had were a ticking time bomb to data loss.

 

[Kona]

Windows home server if you have a second machine you can have running will avoid it again .