problem with harddrive

Dj-Icer · May 5th, 2004, 06:15 AM

Well I think it depends on how you kept them safe, clean from all sorts of dirt etc. Virus could also harm ur h/drive too. I don't think a HDD has a lifespan.

DanGrease · May 5th, 2004, 06:40 AM

Lifespan of a hard drive depends on how you use it. Two years is not a lot though, and I wouldn't consider it an old hard drive yet. Still it sounds like if the hard drive is broken. Caviar series doesn't help either, bad quality in my opinion considering its from a well known brand such as Western Digital.

dan

Dj-Icer · May 5th, 2004, 07:53 AM

But I do believe in Electronics (such as TV, camera etc) have a certain lifespan. That'll make buyers to buy and have a new one. That'll actually help the product to gain extra money too. How..intelligent

ShawnD1 · May 5th, 2004, 08:32 AM

You're not putting the computer in sleep mode when this happens are you? 2 of my old computers do this exact same thing when I put them in sleep mode.

bigfeta · May 6th, 2004, 03:17 PM

no, the harddisk shut down while doing normal stuff

found the problem though, I had a fan connected to the power cord the harddisk was connected to, that stole power from the harddisk, and caused it to shut down.

Thanks for your help people!

Dj-Icer · May 7th, 2004, 11:32 PM

You welcome

Yeah, that has taken the juice out from the HDD

I've learned something new here. For a primary master HDD, I concentrate to only one power cord and never let it shared on other hardware.

the who · May 7th, 2004, 11:46 PM

Most hard drives seem to last 3-5 years on average use. Drives powered on 24/7 last usually more than 3 years.

Dj-Icer · May 7th, 2004, 11:51 PM

Meaning, they want you get a new one

jmichna · May 11th, 2004, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj-Icer

You welcome

Yeah, that has taken the juice out from the HDD

I've learned something new here. For a primary master HDD, I concentrate to only one power cord and never let it shared on other hardware.

Dj-Icer,
What about a secondary master HDD? Or, a primary slave HDD? Or, even a secondary slave HDD, for that matter? What do you do?

Dj-Icer · May 12th, 2004, 09:08 AM

What I use, I use a 80 pin IDE cable (HDD) for a good data transfer.

Hope you could picture my explanation. There are 3 ports on my motherboard; 1 for CD-ROM (on your right) , 1 for HDD (middle) and 1 for floppy drive (left, next to HDD).

The floppy drive has its own cable (the one with the twisted cable in the middle

). I use two HDD with 3 plugs/connecter IDE cable.

The long end connector, I plug it on the mobo. The 2 short connectors, the end/first connector I put it on primary slave and the 2nd connector I put it on the primary master HDD. There was no problem later, just that you have to (what I normally do to confirm it) auto-detect it at BIOS (press the del/F2) and remember to set those "jumpers" correctly.

If you have only one IDE cable with 3 connectors, take off the connector on the CD-ROM and put it on your 2nd HDD (after you have fix the jumper to "slave"). Leave alone the connector on the primary master HDD. It worked later.

If you have made a mistake in sorting those connectors correctly, it won't broke your HDD or anything. There shouldn't be a problem