On 11/18/05, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 19/11/05, Darren Richards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks everyone for the advice. I was able to dig into it this > > evening, and one of my hard drives bit the dust. It seems to be > > drawing too much current, which causes the power supply to shut itself > > down. > > > > Those hard drives have been spinning 24/7 for a couple years now. I > > figured they'd give out sooner or later, but I was hoping for later. > > This drive (a maxtor 250gb) only lasted two years... I guess it's an > > excuse to upgrade. I found a great deal on newegg on a Western > > Digital 400GB hard drive. $157 after rebates. (one rebate is > > "hidden", and doesn't show up until you check out. You can either > > choose a $20 refund or a 1 year subscription to pc magazine.) > > When you get the new drive installed, I'd recommend running smartd (if > you're not already) and running weekly tests on your drives, > especially if they're on 24/7 (might give you a headstart on getting > data saved before the drive finally bites the big one). I'd also look > into the varying warranty levels between the different manufactures > (I've been buying Seagate recently because they're quiet and have a > 5yr warranty). > > Nick
I'm not even sure what smartd is. I'll look into it. I figure my drives don't have any mission critical data on them. The drive that went out just contained my DVD's, and luckily I have all those backed up on DVD already ;) I agree about the seagate drives... I already have one 400gb seagate in my backend server. I've had good luck with WD in the past, so I think I'm going to take my chances... -darren _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list mythtv-users@mythtv.org http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
