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Shorted hard drive
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: onsinch on December 17, 2012, 07:37:52 PM ---The drive was bought used so didnt have warranty, and it only had 700GB of anime, of which i have watched approximately 400GB so i couldnt really care less :D
just wondering whether it would be cheaper to fix than buy a larger drive, i am going to buy parts for new pc tomorrow anyway and i was planning to reuse this drive to save costs
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sell it for $10 to someone who'd like a fancy paperweight, then use that $10 to pay for a cab to get to your trusted store.
ok on a serious note, nothing is stopping you from repairing it, it "might" be cheaper depending on the damage it has, get a professional harddrive-technician(preferably an ex-WD/seagate tech team staff... im asking too much on this.) to take a look at it and expect to pay around $30-$100 for the repairs.
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Ivon on December 17, 2012, 05:57:05 PM ---WD Reds are variable spin rates, that I believe go up to 5400RPM. So this drive shouldn't be used for Boot or Gaming, but is perfect for Seeding, Streaming (buffers can handle the variable RPMs nicely), Backup, General Storage.
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I think you meant Greens. Reds are meant to be used in NAS units and specifically in RAID arrays, and have a number of features meant for that task that would put them at a disadvantage when used as single disks.
Pentium100:
--- Quote from: Freedom Kira on December 18, 2012, 10:16:19 AM ---I think you meant Greens. Reds are meant to be used in NAS units and specifically in RAID arrays, and have a number of features meant for that task that would put them at a disadvantage when used as single disks.
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And what would those features be? TLER? Not crashing the entire system due to a bad sector is preferable for all hard drives. True, RAID needs drives with TLER, but that feature is useful for single drives too.
And Reds are designed for 24/7 operation, which is good.
onsinch:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on December 17, 2012, 08:28:41 PM ---Tell me what are the symptoms when you attempt to access it (noises, how pc reacts to it, etc...)
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Its the logic board thats gone because i actually saw it fall out the hdd cage and land on the metal casing of the hdd below which was followed by a burning smell similar to when i blew up my radeon 6850
its not really a problem, the drive was in all sense redundant, i was storing anime and seeding it on a connection that had an upload speed of 100kb/s which is shared amongst 2-3 people who use steam, and also on my connection the upload speed is throttled if i go past 50% of my download speed (overhead ???)
anyway, i figured i didnt need a new storage drive seeing as though: my games are all less than 10GB (i can fit all my games on a 32GB SD card :D), i have a seedbox and i just found 3 120GB drives in my room
Freedom Kira:
--- Quote from: Pentium100 on December 18, 2012, 08:13:03 PM ---And what would those features be? TLER? Not crashing the entire system due to a bad sector is preferable for all hard drives. True, RAID needs drives with TLER, but that feature is useful for single drives too.
And Reds are designed for 24/7 operation, which is good.
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TLER is one of them. For the others, take a look at Anandtech's review. Of the listed features, only the vibration reduction feature is really beneficial for regular use.
Regular hard drives usually have some kind of read error recovery. This causes a hanging system, not a crash, but it is preferable over throwing read errors everywhere if used as a single disk, as they are designed for. So, no, having TLER in a single disk is detrimental. It's useful in a RAID array because a read error from a single disk can be repaired easily, assuming there is enough redundancy to do so.
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