I just purchased a new 500-gig drive. The oldone was 80 GB. Thanks Nimer J Lennie Rinaldi wrote: > 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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