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Darren:
My main laptop HD failed tonight, it seems yet another one has gone. Strangely enough that's two in different laptops in one night.

One just stopped spinning and my main one made some 'orrible screaching noises and now can't be accesed  :doh:

They might be getting bigger and faster now, but the reliability seems to have gone out the window.
Do others find the same?
AdeV:
Yep - definitely seeing the same trend here, and I've been using HDDs since the year dot (OK, 1994). I recently sold a 1979 vintage hard-drive (all 20MB of it!), which was still working after all this time. Somewhere, I've got my very first 340MB harddrive which, I expect, would still work (if I plugged it into anything). I have, however, binned 3 multi-gigabyte 2007 or newer drives, this year alone. And I've got two in the process of failing now, one of which is only about 3 months old.
Bernd:
Had one fail a while ago. At present have two computers going. The one I'm using right now I've hardly ever shut it off. Have it running 24/7. Wonder if cycling them on/off has something to do with them failing.

I'm planning on building another home computer. Also thinking of getting a laptop for the wife to use.

Bernd
raynerd:
I was once told by someone very very well informed that you should back up as - "it isn`t a case of if it fails but when it fails". And that wasn`t said in a flippant way but a genuine sensible manner. They all will fail eventually. Rubbish doing so so quickly however. Some very very good recovery tools out there and I`ve used quite a few good linux based boot CDs to recover data with some success. Worse one was this Easter gone when my hd failed in my works laptop, I spent a good 5-6 hours recovering the files only to find that about 40% opened, the rest were corrupt  :bang:.

Chris
Brass_Machine:
Darren... I know this sounds odd... but stick the drives in a ziplock bag in the freezer over night. try again the next day. Just be sure you have a thumb drive to put your data on cause if it works... it wont for long. I get about a 20% success on this... your mileage may very.

Eric
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