I was running a 120gb SSD and 1.5tb HDD for pure storage. This weekend I bought a 2TB HDD and another 120gb SSD (on sale, ~$85 and $~90, respectively) to supplement/back-up/replace the 1.5TB drive which I suspected was starting to go bad (I had had chkdisk pop up twice in the previous week when booting up, and in the weeks prior it would hang for a second when trying to access it in Windows).
The first thing I did once it was installed was backup my school files and pictures (on the HDD), as well as a backup system image of everything on the SSD (OS, programs, the main games I play). Then I got on with life/drinking/gaming for the rest of the weekend because I figured I could backup all of my music, movies/tv shows, etc. in the very near future.
Literally 24 fucking hours later, I boot my PC up and hear a readily audible "click...click...click....click". Shut it off, open up the side, and reboot. I can hear the sound again, coming right from the 1.5TB piece-of-shit Seagate HDD. Needless to say, it's toast. I'm not expert on the subject, but I would guess that short of some NSA-type shit I am not going to be retrieving any more of my data from it.
I guess things could have been worse - on the one hand I'm glad I thought to buy a new one when I did, so literally everything was not lost, but it's still a motherfucker that it went out right before I could save the rest of my shit. Lesson learned.
/fwtp
The first thing I did once it was installed was backup my school files and pictures (on the HDD), as well as a backup system image of everything on the SSD (OS, programs, the main games I play). Then I got on with life/drinking/gaming for the rest of the weekend because I figured I could backup all of my music, movies/tv shows, etc. in the very near future.
Literally 24 fucking hours later, I boot my PC up and hear a readily audible "click...click...click....click". Shut it off, open up the side, and reboot. I can hear the sound again, coming right from the 1.5TB piece-of-shit Seagate HDD. Needless to say, it's toast. I'm not expert on the subject, but I would guess that short of some NSA-type shit I am not going to be retrieving any more of my data from it.
I guess things could have been worse - on the one hand I'm glad I thought to buy a new one when I did, so literally everything was not lost, but it's still a motherfucker that it went out right before I could save the rest of my shit. Lesson learned.
/fwtp
Last edited by -CARNIFEX-[LOC] (2012-08-21 16:36:33)
