As a late Christmas present (waiting for the sales) my mom got me a new external hard drive. 500 gig Seagate FreeAgent. Usually, HDDs fail right away or last for years, and it hasn’t failed yet, so barring the cat knocking it over or something (even though he knows he’s not allowed on my desk) it should be fine. And the five-year warranty isn’t too bad, either. (Either way, I’ll still be doing redundant backups.)
Boiling a hard drive!
May 26, 2009 — aimeewilburyOne guy had a hard drive failure. He tried all the standard recovery tips, and then thought to boil it. And it worked.
Another weird hard drive failure.
April 24, 2009 — aimeewilburyOr more like a catastrophe. A disaster. A misfortune. A RUINED LIFE!
….er, well here you go.
Now this is weird
April 22, 2009 — aimeewilburyThis morning, I was doing some googling on head crashes, and I came upon this, which explains one of the weirdest hard drive failures I’ve ever heard about.
Basically, an IBM Deathstar had such a bad head crash that all the magnetic matter was wiped clean. (I didn’t even know that platters were see-through!)
Have $3495 to spare?
March 19, 2009 — aimeewilburyThen how about you get yourself a 10 MB hard drive? (And it’s refurbished — imagine the discounts! A new one would cost $1000 more!)
Copy the Contents of one HDD to Another
March 7, 2009 — aimeewilburyWondering if your HDD is failing? HDD Health may help.
March 3, 2009 — aimeewilburyHDD Health, a freeware utility, uses the S.M.A.R.T. technology built into all newer hard drives to warn you of impending failure.
