My 250€ Western Digital 300GB Velociraptor hard drive failed on me today. Appearently.


Lately the drive started taking longer and longer to be detected, which resulted in high boot times - I thought nothing of it since I had a history of just weird USB complications that don't even make sense.

Every once in a while when I restarted, the drive was not detected immediately - I didn't even notice it because the second harddrive (which had broken boot info FROM THE TIME BEFORE WHEN THIS HAPPENED because I had to install windows on that thing while I waited for RMA'd hard drive) made a boot statement that stuff was broken and all the times I tried to fix it, I wasn't fixing my primary drive, but my secondary detected as primary.

Yesterday I had to restart numerous times for the drive to be detected. I thought it was a bad connection since S.M.A.R.T. never gave a warning or anything.

Today I've tried restarting about 15 times with different connectors and slots to no avail.

And on top of that the internet is so slow I can't even watch the latest fucking South park.

I gotta do an emergency backup when (if) the drive comes online. Where to, I have no fucking clue. I need an external raid 1 esata drive.

The only thing I'm glad about is that WD gives 5 years warranty.



Insert balls to the wall monkey gone apeshit bananas rage here.

And those fuckers don't even allow preloading

Wankers! I've never had a hard drive fail on me

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a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a bird in a pig

Failing HD's, can make me cry.
Once lost 500 Gig of music.
All official scene releases of music from only the nineties

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We Shall Not Be Moved!

There was no such thing called "music" in the nineties.

Sorry to hear that, Murk.

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SaintK: I'm completely lost

I had my 200GB HDD crashing few weeks ago too, lost some mp3's, movies and series. No biggy.

But you are wrong Blacky, best metal music to this day was still made on 80's and 90's .

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Dear God(if you even exist), I am willing to trade Justin Bieber, all 3 Jonases and Miley Cyrus to get Paul Gray, Ronnie James Dio, Pete Steele, Dimebag Darrell and Chuck Schuldiner back.

Black Sabbath made all the best metal in the 70's, though I will grant the idea that there are few great metal bands around today.

Also in the nineties most of the best post rock, post hardcore, math rock, noise rock, IDM, Trip Hop... you know the nineties weren't that bad.

HD failure fucking sucks... I try to keep backups of my most important stuff, music and work everything else I can download again.

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Now it works again.




i have no idea