Hard Drive Headaches

[lukosrage]

lol just run raid, its cheap now. Also its easy to swap platters.

[jdavidbakr]

Seriosly? If the drive dies then you can't get anything off of it. Backing up to the same drive will allow you to recover a file if you accidentally delete it or need to go back to an older version but it won't help if the hard dlive fails. Bacukp to another drive.

[haloooodude]

lol, did you see his face at 0:16, I thought he was going to cry or throwup lol.

[haloooodude]

Actually the processor is the heart of the computer. The Hard Drive is the brain of saving information.

[haloooodude]

People who poot 400GB of porn on hard drives are obvisouly sick! But backup is the most important!

[PockyBum522]

No, burn your important data to DVDs or at least copy it to another computer and get a new drive <u>now.

[Hagledesperado]

Back up on the same drive? You're kidding, right?

[TellianGun]

No way! It's true. for example if you make 10 copies of a file on a HDD, it stores on different sectors. Practically if the sector where you have the original file fails, you can skip it and get to a sector where a copy is.

[Hagledesperado]

Hardly seems worth reducing the HDD capacity to 1/10. What if the whole drive fails? Besides, in my experience, once you got one bad sector, it multiplies quickly. The only sensible thing to do is backing up to another physical drive, preferably located in a separate computer (in case of total system f**kup), and even more preferably at different geographic location (in case of fire or other disaster). Backing up on the same drive is just evil.

[TellianGun]

You can issue the HDD to skip bad sectors (reducing a little storage) and so the bad sectors will rarely multiply

[Hagledesperado]

That was twenty years ago (yes, twenty). Today the moving parts are much smaller, faster and suspectible to damage. If your hard disk hiccups, it means it's practically dead, it just doesn't know it yet. It seems you have the theoretical background, but you haven't recovered many hard drives in the last few years, have you?

[captain150]

They mention about how fragile these things are. While that's true (can't drop them very far) they are also very reliable when handled properly. Hard drive failure rates are less than 1% annually. So buy 100 drives some will be DOA, aside from those, maybe 1 will actually fail out of 100. For comparison, failure rates for everything else in a computer are higher.

Very impressive considering how precise hard drives are. So yes backup but the chances of your hard drive dieing tomorrow are remote.

[starbasehollywood]

Be nice when we don't need those clunky drives. Watch Dr Jarvis come out with something. Then we have to give it mouth to mouth or rather machine, and get shocked across the room. Ya boot it up and the first thing it says is "Sorry about that". Folks, backup is no joke. If ya don't, someday you will learn.

[alwaysmc2]

The hard drive isn't the only moving part.

There's also cooling fans.

[deathshrub]

...fuck you.

[alwaysmc2]

No thanks, I don't swing that way.

[mastaassmasta]

RAID 1 FTW

[Bowlch]

Word!

[deathshrub]

rofl iawtc

[NetCaster]

Hmmm let see, my hard drive (80MB SCSI)thats been like 7 years old is still working.

[scstraus]

backing up anywhere is better than not backing up. I've gotten by on harddisk backups (many of them) for a while, because they can be done automatically on a regular basis. I don't have time to switch the disks needed to backup 120gb of data!

[joos351]

Spend the money, buy Spinrite, job done!!!

[hopseflopsen]

I'm always told that backing up on another harddrive is the wrong thing to do...

[cpnjack]

It's asking for trouble. If they're both connected to the same machine, a power spike could kill them both.

[Sweetdelightgmail]

Backup the most important backup of backups on dvds for extra safety of mind. They verify the dvd burned successfully and keep it safe.

[linkskywalker]

The thing about backing up is it can be quite expensive. I have a 120gb external HD that I bought for backing up, but these days I have easily 300gb of data--and no more money for a bigger backup device.

Fortunately, I've never had an HD failure. I wonder if that's because I'm lucky, or because I'm not stupid.

[LSDude]

OMG at 5:25 I have that exact same robot the guy has in the background. That robot makes sounds and breaths smoke out of its mouth (you have to refill it up oil).

[gavilan1010]

well... I know what I want for Christmas , Backup backup backup

[sKilLs77]

I named my PS2 Hard Drive SPARKY lol.

[sKilLs77]

lol!!!! Sparky!!! Dear Diary, Today Sparkys HD gave birth to a new Sparky HD lol.

[djspock]

I should name a HD sparky! Lol!

[georgehwbush]

Always keep backups and always use external drives for important stuff!

[mayhem1712]

you dont know its a firewire enclosure... it may have been USB :P

[AMDnewbie2005]

lol i like how he asked about pr0n recovery, this is why you backup, 250gb hdd are only $80 now so theres no excuse. I have one and all my music, movies, games, pictures and pr0n is backed up safely :P even the backup is backed up if you count CDs and DVDs :)

[Msdos4]

Im hard drive error prone. (but I once kept a hard drive in the smae computer for 6 years!) About once every few months i'll get a system file error with some file from syste32 missing and i have to do a norton backup, but atleaset it isn't an expensive hard drive replacement

[bobg58]

I've heard these warnings ever since I got my first 286... but I've been lucky. 18 years and 8 computers later, I've never had a hard drive failure.

[Coolmatt49]

OMG the guy that's having the trouble is using Windows XP and then you see the back-up/restore business and they use all Macs LOL!!!

[ednerpizarro]

hauhauha great point...

[LSDude]

That's because you've never used a Maxtor. The only drive that has ever died on me was a Maxtor. I worked at a computer store and everyone who came in for a new HD cause theirs died told me it was a Maxtor.

[dubmoodatari]

hahaha nice! XD

[captainpiccard]

This guy calls himself a tech journalist, he has "TOOLS", and he taps on the side of his computer? maybe thats why your hd went to hell, you dumb ass. i got one word for you newbs: BACKUP.

[rottenrodent]

uh... dude... that point of the whole vid... to remind you to backup and what will happen if you dont

[niraco]

"But you don't back up" "Yeah well that's just me, I have a data recovery company"... BASTARD! :P

My 500GB Maxtor HD died just 2 days after I got it. Never write important data to a new HD!!!

[Superdude688]

yeah when i got a new 160gb sataII WD drive, the thing tarded out on me after like 2 days and i lost half my stuff. the one i exchanged for is runnin good tho

[niraco]

I was sent the Maxtor (SHITE!) 500GB accidently by ebuyer. I ordered a Western Digital 320GB which is what I hope they'll replace it with. I lost almost 400gb of porn when the piece of crap fecked me over :(

[steveriv02]

That's why you always keep at least 2 copies of all important data. For more safety have a copy off site as well incase your house or wherever your computer is burns down.

[howardmeis]

This is pretty much why RAID 0 and RAID 0+1 exist.

[geniusj]

RAID 0 provides no redundancy or safety whatsoever.  Though you were half right for bringing up 0+1.

[Ry6001]

Hey idiots, thats why you have 2 drives, one for the OS and one for Data. Seperate the two drives. DUH!

[howardmeis]

Hey idiot, way to make alot of excess heat, and set yourself up for even mroe failure!

[captainpiccard]

Moron, what if the drive that fails is your data drive? dumb ass...

[sKilLs77]

lol he named the hard drive "SPARKY"

[Emeraptor]

Esta este video en español?

[niteskunk]

Good video.

[Oprtvdog]

what was her office doing at the bottom of the amazon river

[Hairyhole1]

shes a FISH!

[fergatronanator]

LOL great video!