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It's Been a Tough Week

🕑 Added 2018-12-07 22:58:20 +0000 UTC

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E Douglas Jensen

It isn't all that expensive to get a (say) 2-HDD RAID box and mirror everything to both drives so if one fails you have the other. If you do that, I suggest the two HDDs be from two different manufacturers to reduce the chance that both will fail close together.

Christopher Bassett

I ponder if it was a hard drive issue or the controller (the part that interfaces between the physical drive in the enclosure and your connection method to computer (USB/Thunderbolt, etc). I've had bad experiences before Geek Squad/Best Buy and folks like them blowing the problem out of proportion to make it cost more. That was before I really got to know computer hardware. Lastly, as long as the PCB inside the drive is good, you should be able to get S.M.A.R.T. information that will give you some kind of info. Overall, given the circumstances, it seems unlikely of a total hard drive failure. P.S. Someone else mentioned put it in the freezer (albeit not for 6 months but 24 hours or so), if it is a true mechanical failure, that will sometimes reverse the effects long enough to get something back but YMMV. Best of luck!

^ purpose of my anecdote is to warn others away from them.

Is it the infamous Western Digital “click of death”? Ive had 4 WD drives fail on me over the last few years. Anything from 3.5” desktop drives to portables. All i can say is if its clicking put it in the freezer and forget about it for 6 months. Come back then and ask what to do next... No joke.

Company Man

Just sounds terrible. At least you didn’t walk away with nothing.

That's gotta suck! This past January, I went to Walmart and got a brand new HP 15" Touchscreen laptop for $150, which I thought was an amazing deal. It had 1TB of memory, 4GB of RAM (granted not the best but expandable to 8), and decent speakers. All was well, until two months later, when the video I was watching on Amazon, began to skip frames and the sound got really slow, and the speakers would create this loud ear-piersing sound. I called HP, after they had me restore the system and did dignostics, had me send it in. When it came back, all was well for three days, when the same problems started up again. I called HP once again, and wanted me to do another system restore (which also took about 3-4 hours to do and not counting the times it restarted after installing updates), did more dignostics and had me send it a second time. I recieved it in less than a week back this time. Do you wanna guess what happend a few hours after I got it back? If you guessed that the problems persisted, then you guessed right. I got on the phone once again with HP, and told them that if they wanted me to send it back, I would gladly do it, so as long as I never saw that machine ever again and, that they either give me a brand new one, or refund my money. They gave me $200 in return for "all my troubles." So, two things: If you ever want to do a video on the decline of HP, and need help, SIGN ME UP! I even have the paperwork stating that each time the problems were fixed, and I also have video of the sound the speakers would make. Second, I know better than to buy an HP computer.

Robert Sanges

Coming soon: The rise and fall of Western Digital.

That sucks. I have had a similar problem with my projects (programming), and use Github to save my work online. I use it a lot for my school work as well and think you might like it too. They have a desktop application too so you wouldnt need to know terminal commands. There's also Google Drive that can be linked with your computer and im sure theres more alternatives too. Can't wait to see the video when it comes out!