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Hip! Hip! Harddrive failure!

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So after 5 years and 13200 hours of operation my first hard drive has failed. Im not that mad considering windows warned me about 45 min before hand, giving me enough time to get most of my important data off.

But I also thought It might be an interesting topic to discuss how long your hard drives lasted and the race against the invisible clock to backup data on a failing hard drive.

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Well the clock wont be enough for me haha, 600gb steam folder xD

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I have never used a Hard Drive to death, where there any signs that the Hard Drive was close to failure apart from the 45min warning?

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I have never used a Hard Drive to death, where there any signs that the Hard Drive was close to failure apart from the 45min warning?

Not unless you look for it. With a program called Speccy it can tell you detailed information about harddrive errors and then give you a one word code; right now my other harddrive of the same age (about 200 hours older) is on "warning" where the failing was on "bad".

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Got HDDs about 10 years old+ and still working  :)

Never used a HDD error checking program. Should probably use it.

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I've never had a hard drive fail before. Just wondering, what kind of warning will Windows say? And how would you know your HDD has failed?

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I've never had a hard drive fail before. Just wondering, what kind of warning will Windows say? And how would you know your HDD has failed?

I cant remember what it said specifically but you'll know if you get it. Also I'm pretty sure considering programs that need to recognize the harddrive pop up errors and windows explorer hangs when I try to access it.

 

EDIT: And speccy is reporting what used to be nearly 1tb is now 54mb

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yeah this happened to an old 320gb laptop drive i had windows explorer kept feezing and then windows just locked up then  when booted pc no hard drive found

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