Hi Nimer, That's not good! I think that a hard drive whether internal or external should have a longer life than 1-1/2 or 2 years.
You did not mention the size of your failed Hitachi hard drive. I do think that the larger hard drives have the tendency to fail sooner than smaller ones. As I have mentioned, my Western Digital internal hard drive was 500 GB. and it failed within two years. I was told that the master file table which I believe keeps track of all the files on the hard drive was corrupted. Since I had many, many MP3 files on that old hard drive, I(I don't remember how many) it was probably too many for the master file table to keep up with it. I was told that the solution with large single hard drives is to split the hard drives into two drives. This could be done before any data is stored on a new hard drive using a function in Window to split the hard drive (I think it has to do with formatting). If data is already stored on the hard drive, then you need something like partition magic to split the hard drive. The advantage of splitting a hard drive (so I was told) is that it will create two master file tables which should handles the large number of files spread over the two areas. I have two external hard drives and one internal hard drive and all are 500 GB. each. So, the three are split to prevent failure. Each one has its own drive letter and each is split about 250 GB. each. I hope that this information is useful for you. Lennie At 06:08 PM 9/1/2008, you wrote: >Actually, it was an internal, and it was about a year and a half. >Thanks >Nimer J > >Lennie Rinaldi wrote: > > Hi Nimer, > > > > I also have a Hitachi 500 GB internal hard drive. I use this one for > > all my MP3 music and recordings. So far, that one is working just fine. > > > > I had a bad experience with my previous internal hard drive that died > > on me after 2 years. That one was a Western Digital and also was 500 GB. > > > > I use the Hitachi external hard drive which is also 500 GB. to back > > up anything that I saved on the internal hard drive. So far, that one > > has been working fine. Both drives are 5 months old. How old was your > > Hitachi external hard drive when it died on you? > > > > Lennie > > > > At 11:55 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote: > > > >> By the way, how do you like hitachi? I just had one die on me. > >> thanks > >> Nimer J > >> > >> Lennie Rinaldi wrote: > >> > >>> Victor, > >>> > >>> I think that most new external hard drives come already in NTFS > >>> format. I recently bought a Hitachi external hard drive and it was > >>> formatted that way. > >>> > >>> One of my older external hard drive which I purchased a couple of > >>> years ago was FAT32 and had to be reformatted to NTFS. > >>> > >>> Just thought that you might want to know. > >>> > >>> Lennie > >>> > >>> At 06:12 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> Hi Patricia, > >>>> > >>>> You've got it, that's exactly what it should say, which is > very uncommon. > >>>> > >>>> Any drive I've ever gotten has always been formatted as FAT or > >>>> > >> FAT32 so they > >> > >>>> will plug into a Windows 98 machine, but it's a nice surprise that yours > >>>> isn't. > >>>> > >>>> Now all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the drive. 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