Hard Drive Failure
http://live.pirillo.com/ – Hard drives are generally a very reliable part of your computer setup. Given the fact that the hard drive is one of the few components that has moving parts and it's active all of the time, it's actually kind of surprising that the hard drive doesn't fail more than they do.
Still, hard drives fail, and there are several sounds you can listen for to determine if your hard drive is about to fail. When you hear one of these sounds it's time to back up your data and consider buying another drive.
Do you have any tips for monitoring the health of your hard drive?
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3 Comments
Barry
July 31st, 2007
at 1:40pm
I am concerned about my HD suddenly quitting on me and even though i back up my data it still would be a royal pain if my drive went south. I recently posed the question of programs such as HDD Health on Lockergnome asking if anyone had experience with this type of monitoring software and any recommendatios or comments but no responses. Has anyone here installed something like this and have any comments (good or bad).
Barry
July 31st, 2007
at 1:40pm
I am concerned about my HD suddenly quitting on me and even though i back up my data it still would be a royal pain if my drive went south. I recently posed the question of programs such as HDD Health on Lockergnome asking if anyone had experience with this type of monitoring software and any recommendatios or comments but no responses. Has anyone here installed something like this and have any comments (good or bad).
Lord Christ
September 19th, 2007
at 9:37pm
Apart from regular backups… use a RAID in your machine. For example: If you have a RAID level 5 and use it with a set of 3 300GB harddisks (=900GB), that will result in *one* 600GB disk. After formatting, you will have a 560GB partition (example: Windows, NTFS).
So you can store 560GB of data on this one partition, which is actually 3 harddisks. If one of them fails, your system keeps running and nothing is lost! Just shut down the machine, exchange the broken drive with a new one, boot up, use as normally. In the background, the new disk will be introduced and receive it’s share. There are even hot-swap-RAIDs, so no shutting down would be necessary.
You can use more than 3 disks in a RAID 5, but for private use, 3 is fine.