HDD Death for No reason other than age?
Is it normal for an HDD to die for absolutely no reason after handling it gently and taking proper care of it for 6 years?
I have a 200 GB HDD Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 from 2004. The thing really stopped meaning too much to me after I got bigger and better HDD's in the past few years but I did use it regularly the past year and just now went to store some files on it, but it is .. seemingly dead.
Sure, it's about 6 years old but why just die all of the sudden?
When I plug it in and fire it up you can hear a "moan" and than a hundred thousand screaming beeps coming from it until you shut it off and hear another "moan" sound come from it.
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But whatever, I have another 2x 250 I can format and use.
Just, why go bad over night? Head arm or spindle bearing run out of oil or grease? I even have a 20 GB disk from 1999 that works still...
Last edited by Bob Slydell; Jul 31, 2010 at 04:40 AM // 04:40..
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