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In Need of a Hard Drive

post #1 of 13
1/6/10 at 11:53pm
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My hard drive is failing as we speak, does anyone have one that they'd sell me? Windows laptop hard drive...
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post #2 of 13
1/7/10 at 12:54am
newegg.com will sell you one
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post #3 of 13
1/7/10 at 2:32am
Burn your important data to a DVD immediately or go out and buy an external USB drive to back up your files. If you're sure the drive is dying, the death spiral will be rapid.
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post #4 of 13
1/7/10 at 3:17am
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Originally Posted by willpower View Post
Burn your important data to a DVD immediately or go out and buy an external USB drive to back up your files. If you're sure the drive is dying, the death spiral will be rapid.

Stick it in your freezer for a couple of hours might help it last a little longer, if you're that desperate to save data from it.
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post #5 of 13
1/7/10 at 9:43am
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Originally Posted by DarkNWorn View Post
Stick it in your freezer for a couple of hours might help it last a little longer, if you're that desperate to save data from it.

There might be some common wisdom to this that I am missing - like that maybe the magnetic aspects are somehow more stable when cold? - but presuming that the failure is mechanical in nature, I don't see how lowering temperatures would help.

Regardless, I can't imagine freezing would be a good idea. If you're going to apply the cold strategy for whatever reason, use the fridge not the freezer.

My .02 as a tech head but not a hard drive expert.
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post #6 of 13
1/7/10 at 12:18pm
How much money are you willing to spend? How much space do you need? LOW $$, LOW Storage = Any SATA disk hard drive HIGH $$, LOW Storage = Solid-State drive LOW $$, HIGH Storage = 1tB+ SATA disk hard drive HIGH $$, HIGH Storage = ... 100gB+ Solid-State drive SSD's are the new hard drive format coming into the market now, although they are VERY expensive per gigabyte. It's essentially an enormous flash drive that's not capped by USB 2.0 transfer rates. The advantage to them, though, is that they are lightning-fast, making them the single best upgrade you can make to any computer manufactured/assembled with a dual-core processor or better.
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post #7 of 13
1/7/10 at 1:25pm
I have one I will sell you for $475. It's really nice. Holds millions of bytes.
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post #8 of 13
1/7/10 at 5:15pm
Salt Lake City to Reno is a hard drive, whether in winter or the heat of summer. In my experience, anyway.
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post #9 of 13
1/7/10 at 5:28pm
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Originally Posted by Dakota rube View Post
Salt Lake City to Reno is a hard drive, whether in winter or the heat of summer.
In my experience, anyway.
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post #10 of 13
1/8/10 at 2:26am
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Originally Posted by willpower View Post
Burn your important data to a DVD immediately or go out and buy an external USB drive to back up your files. If you're sure the drive is dying, the death spiral will be rapid.

Fuck DVDs. Get an external quickly. You can find a bunch on Slickdeals.
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post #11 of 13
1/8/10 at 2:31am
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Originally Posted by Dakota rube View Post
Salt Lake City to Reno is a hard drive, whether in winter or the heat of summer. In my experience, anyway.
During my band days we once did a straight drive from Thunder Bay, Ontario to Banff, Alberta. 9 smelly, heavy-smoking guys eating only truck-stop food. Now, THAT was a hard drive.
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post #12 of 13
1/8/10 at 2:00pm
^Should qualify you for some sort of award, frankly. The only good thing about that trip was the destination. Oh, and the fact that you left Thunder Bay.
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post #13 of 13
1/13/10 at 6:32pm
In Need of a Hard Drive


That's what she said....................Sorry, couldn't help it. Been watching too much Office.
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