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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
My 1.5 TB harddrive just blew after about 4 months... a few days after
filling it too.... Thanks Seagate! [Seagate Barracuda (ST31500341AS) 7200.11 SATA 3.0Gb/s 1.5TB] ... It's my own damn fault for going for the best gig/$ deal I guess... and backing up that much stuff was not an option financially... I always expected it to fail but I had hoped it would last a year or two at least, by then I could update to raid 1 or buy a 3tb drive or something... Anyways.... this piece of crap is still under warranty, and they will send me another piece of crap to replace it... but I really don't want to go through this again, I will never trust this brand now that I've been assraped... I'm thinking the only way I can use the new piece of crap their going to send me is if it is in a RAID configuration of some sort.... RAID 5 looks nice but I'm sooooo not ready to fork out another $300ish for two more 1.5 TB drives What are my options - with redundancy and scalability in mind? Can I just start out with some kind of 2 disk mirroring configuration and then later add the third disk (converting to raid 5 here) and the fourth and fifth in the furture? I guess I'm asking if you can convert go from a two disk x 1.5 TB raid 1 setup to a three disk x 1.5 TB raid 5 setup without reformatting... ....my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
In article cd6612d4-8e0c-4999-9953-1a0bf9c80b42
@r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com, says... ...my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed Yeah...back up next time. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
On May 17, 2:22*pm, Conor wrote:
In article cd6612d4-8e0c-4999-9953-1a0bf9c80b42 @r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com, says... ...my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed Yeah...back up next time. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams "backing up that much stuff was not an option financially." Read before you state the obvious please. Sometimes you have so much data it's just not possible to back it all up. Back to the point of the thread - any suggestions? |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
wrote:
Conor wrote: says... Suggestions welcomed Yeah...back up next time. "backing up that much stuff was not an option financially." Then that stuff is worth little. Let me guess... Downloaded video, movies, and music? Read before you state the obvious please. Sometimes you have so much data it's just not possible to back it all up. Back to the point of the thread - any suggestions? If your stuff is valuable, back it up. Is this your first post to USENET? Hang around here and read similar sad stories from other users, it will impress you enough to learn the basics about computing. Your complaint about the drive failing is valid, but you should always have backup copies of important data. -- Interested in making Windows and games obey your verbal commands? Continuous command recognition (much easier than speech recognition) can now be enabled using Naturally Speaking and freeware Dragonfly. See (comp.lang.beta) for discussion. Path: nlpi059.nbdc.sbc.com!nlpi062.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy. com!nlpi057.nbdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!news.glorb.co m!postnews.google.com!s20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com !not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Subject: Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate! Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 11:34:45 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.210.199.231 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1242585286 30476 127.0.0.1 (17 May 2009 18:34:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:34:46 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: Injection-Info: s20g2000vbp.googlegroups.com; posting-host=64.210.199.231; posting-account=kVvLMQoAAAAc5hKGYRNfRKOTj7WUDTPI User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: prodigy.net alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt:518359 X-Received-Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 14:34:46 EDT (nlpi059.nbdc.sbc.com) |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
wrote in message ... My 1.5 TB harddrive just blew after about 4 months... a few days after filling it too.... Thanks Seagate! [Seagate Barracuda (ST31500341AS) 7200.11 SATA 3.0Gb/s 1.5TB] ... It's my own damn fault for going for the best gig/$ deal I guess... and backing up that much stuff was not an option financially... I always expected it to fail but I had hoped it would last a year or two at least, by then I could update to raid 1 or buy a 3tb drive or something... Anyways.... this piece of crap is still under warranty, and they will send me another piece of crap to replace it... but I really don't want to go through this again, I will never trust this brand now that I've been assraped... I'm thinking the only way I can use the new piece of crap their going to send me is if it is in a RAID configuration of some sort.... RAID 5 looks nice but I'm sooooo not ready to fork out another $300ish for two more 1.5 TB drives What are my options - with redundancy and scalability in mind? Can I just start out with some kind of 2 disk mirroring configuration and then later add the third disk (converting to raid 5 here) and the fourth and fifth in the furture? I guess I'm asking if you can convert go from a two disk x 1.5 TB raid 1 setup to a three disk x 1.5 TB raid 5 setup without reformatting... ...my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed Don't make such a big deal about it. It sucks - it hurts - it's modern manufacturing. 2 to 5% defective rate is considered "acceptable" in manufacturing terms. 1 in 20 or 1 in 50 people will get a bad hard drive - Seagate, Western Digital, whatever. Get your replacement, plug it in, and use it. Can lightning strike twice? Doubtful. I always run a new drive for a while before loading it up just in case I am the 1 in 50 this time. |
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Lost 1500 gigs - Thanks Seagate!
On Sun, 17 May 2009 11:34:45 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On May 17, 2:22*pm, Conor wrote: In article cd6612d4-8e0c-4999-9953-1a0bf9c80b42 @r34g2000vbi.googlegroups.com, says... ...my brain hurts, thanks Seagate Suggestions welcomed Yeah...back up next time. -- Conor I only please one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either. - Scott Adams "backing up that much stuff was not an option financially." Read before you state the obvious please. Sometimes you have so much data it's just not possible to back it all up. Back to the point of the thread - any suggestions? Get a second drive and back it up to that drive. That way you don't have a single point of failure. Haven't trusted Seagate since they bought out Quantum. -- Michael Cecil http://home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/ http://home.roadrunner.com/~safehex/ http://home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/hackingw7/ |
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