Death of a Hard Drive
Posted on | December 31, 2010 | 7 Comments
It’s official: My terabyte hard drive is dead.
I’m rather surprised, it was only two years old, and wasn’t placed under heavy use. However, it was a Seagate, and for some reason Seagate hard drives don’t hold up for me. In fact, this is the second Seagate hard drive this year that I’ve had fail, and both were purchased new.
At this point I am not sure what I have lost that was on that drive; a lot of videos, some music, tons of personal files and pictures—even some financial and other documents I’m sure.
That drive was my sparsely used backup drive; my deep storage, if you will. I am very disappointed in the quality of Seagate drives; I have other disks of different brands that have been much more heavily used that have lasted a LOT longer than any Seagate drive I have ever owned.
Aside from the surprise of discovering the drive clicking with I/O errors, for some reason I’m not foaming at the mouth upset at this. I’m not upset at the journal files, the writings, the documents, the photographs that are no more.
Fortunately most of my photographs are backed up in the Cloud, so I haven’t lost everything but I know I lost quite a bit. I definitely lost a lot of ebooks.
Sigh. I have a choice. I can be upset over this or I can move on. I choose to move on. I can moan and groan that almost all of my stuff was on that drive, but what good would that do?
One bright spot—I no longer have to declutter the drive!
This is a good test of my minimalist tendencies. It is also a nudge for me to continue migrating my most important files to the cloud.
Things like this happen. They have happened in the past, and they will continue to happen in the future. No storage is failsafe. Stuff dies.
Now I have almost no need to keep a desktop computer around, since the primary use of that machine was as a storage system, and now I have nothing large to store. Almost like having a tornado rip your home to shreds, I guess you could say.
Ah, well no point in getting upset over it. It is just stuff.
Now, at least, I know to stop purchasing Seagate hard drives—their quality sucks.
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December 31st, 2010 @ 3:31 pm
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February 12th, 2011 @ 8:16 pm
I have had lots of trouble with Seagate drives. I purchased a brand new one for extra storage & it was less than two weeks old when it died. I had bought it to pull stuff off my full external. I’m a photographer & I put a lot of my older sessions on there. All gone. I still feel a pain every once in a while over the photos lost, but life went on and there was nothing on there I can’t live without. I’ve now got all but one year of my photos in the Cloud and still working on those slowly as they are larger file sizes and take time. I find that Western Digital drives hold up much better. I have some very old Western Digital drives that are still going strong.
February 13th, 2011 @ 10:46 am
Sorry to hear that you lost your pictures! I know I lost quite a bit when mine went down, but life goes on and I DID need to thin down! I like WD hard drives as well, and Hitachi hard drives are incredible! I’ve seen them go through serious big rig accidents, and my daughter dropped one of mine while I had it hooked up–not a single issue with either drive even now! Guess it is time to vote with our money for better quality drives!