It...stopped working all of a sudden. Almost like it lost power or something. Could it be the extreme age of the drive (~7 yrs) or perhaps is my PSU starting to go?
its probably dead. What brand is the drive? most Quantum drives die after about 6 years. My server has a Seagate drive and a quantum drive. both SCSI. The Quantum only wokrs if you hit it a coule of times.
Yeah, probably dead.
Hard drives are only guaranteed for one year except some
special editions which are guaranteed for three years.
They can last a lot longer but you shouldn't depend on them
too much.
Thump
No, actually, it just randomly crashed, but I didn't see any messages...I was waiting for Doom to start, went to take a piss, and came back to see it quitting.
sigh, reminds me of my mini's 8 gig. Also a fireball. It made grinding/clicking sounds when windows was booted. For some reason it didn't do anything wrong when I put it secondary in my pentium and copied files from it.
I have a Quantum 400 MB drive that's still going strong. And hard drives only guaranteed for a year? Yeah, perhaps warranties, but that doesn't mean most of them break down after a year. LOL I've *never* had a hard drive failure, and I've been using computers for 10 years -- and I own about 15 hard drives ranging from 100 MB to 80 GB.
I have a Quantum 400 MB drive that's still going strong. And hard drives only guaranteed for a year? Yeah, perhaps warranties, but that doesn't mean most of them break down after a year. LOL I've *never* had a hard drive failure, and I've been using computers for 10 years -- and I own about 15 hard drives ranging from 100 MB to 80 GB.
Ive seen a working 7MB drive.
My IBM XT has a 20mb MFM HDD, and it still works! its loud as hell tho.
Yeah, probably dead.
Hard drives are only guaranteed for one year except some
special editions which are guaranteed for three years.
They can last a lot longer but you shouldn't depend on them
too much.
Thump
Most hard drives now are guaranteed for 3 years. Seagates are for 5.
Yeah, probably dead.
Hard drives are only guaranteed for one year except some
special editions which are guaranteed for three years.
They can last a lot longer but you shouldn't depend on them
too much.
Thump
Most hard drives now are guaranteed for 3 years. Seagates are for 5.
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Hard drives are only guaranteed for one year except some
special editions which are guaranteed for three years.
They can last a lot longer but you shouldn't depend on them
too much.
Thump
No, actually, it just randomly crashed, but I didn't see any messages...I was waiting for Doom to start, went to take a piss, and came back to see it quitting.
only 1 HDD failure in my laptop but warranty covered it
Ive seen a working 7MB drive.
My IBM XT has a 20mb MFM HDD, and it still works! its loud as hell tho.
-Q
In intensive work, of course...
Most hard drives now are guaranteed for 3 years. Seagates are for 5.
mines gauranteed for up to 350gs lol
-Q