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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > General Bullshit > whats the failure rate on a hard drive?
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The Belgian
Oct 28, 2008
 none of my harddrives have every failed. sorry your harddrive sucks, op

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sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties

pixaal posted:

To get an idea of how close your drive is to being dead run Crystal Disk



This drive is totally going to explode one day, probably soon. More reallocate sectors then the reserve? Check. Power on time of 44086 hours, just over 5 years? Yeah its going to be dead soon I put a ton of usage on this 1TB it was my primary drive for the first 3 years of its life.

edit: Someone show me a more beatup drive I've been waiting for this thing to die for over a year and shocked every day its still running. I'm using it as a scratch drive.

Holy poo poo, this reminded me to go download an updated version of Crystal, and there's like a full anime version now. I guess it's still better than the official IE-tan.
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Frog Act
Feb 10, 2012



 i've been contemplating whether i ought to secure a vault for my illuminated manuscripts or not

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fist4jesus
Nov 24, 2002
 Quantum bigfoot = Best drive.

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ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib
Entropy means everything is dying at once

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ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

opus111 posted:

My 300gigs of porn is finely curated, divided by actress then the main sexual act after that.

Never understand people who go on about not saving porn. Who can live with yet kind of chaos.

Yeah but what about hair color

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opus111
Jul 6, 2014

 all hte hair is black.

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Shroomie
Jul 31, 2008

 All my data is in the ~*cloud*~ so my drive is free to poo poo the bed whenever it wants.

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pixaal
Jan 8, 2004

All ice cream is now for all beings, no matter how many legs.

Shroomie posted:

All my data is in the ~*cloud*~ so my drive is free to poo poo the bed whenever it wants.

Cloud provider's drives are going to poo poo the bed or they are going to go bankrupt. Or are you using them as your backup and you'll just redownload it all when your stuff dies?

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sincx
Jul 13, 2012

furiously masturbating to anime titties

pixaal posted:

Cloud provider's drives are going to poo poo the bed or they are going to go bankrupt. Or are you using them as your backup and you'll just redownload it all when your stuff dies?

If your cloud provider goes bankrupt just ask the NSA for their copy of your :filez:

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FuturePastNow
May 19, 2014

TEAYCHES posted:

100%

back up your data

300% if you bought 1TB WD Greenpower drives like I did for my home fileserver.

I had six, now I have three on a shelf and there's three more in a landfill somewhere.

Haha me for buying drives that failed within months of their warranties expiring.

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1gnoirents
Jun 28, 2014

hello :)
lol I thought I kept clicking on sh sc like twice before I realized I was in gbs

anyways put it in the cloud its Safe (tm)

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