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Thread ID: 84269	2007-10-30 20:10:00	How long before you should replace hard drives?	Greg (193)	PC World Chat

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606677	2007-10-31 05:28:00	Backup every day. If you are doing something really important, backup every hour. Re-writeable disks and drives are cheap. If you are running a *nix, make sure you use fschk regularly. Then you can afford to run the hard disks into the ground until they die. I am still using old 8GB disks. Nothing has died on me yet, nor have I lost any data whatsoever.	vinref (6194)
606678	2007-10-31 07:40:00	I replace them when they rattle too much. Give them a good shake each month just to check...	gibler (49)
606679	2007-10-31 08:27:00	Backup every day. If you are doing something really important, backup every hour. Re-writeable disks and drives are cheap. If you are running a *nix, make sure you use fschk regularly. Then you can afford to run the hard disks into the ground until they die. I am still using old 8GB disks. Nothing has died on me yet, nor have I lost any data whatsoever. I'd rather have large and modern (faster) drives that are more stable and reliable than keep using old ones. One slip-up in not backing things up and the HDD blows, you're screwed.	beeswax34 (63)
606680	2007-10-31 09:47:00	Lmao, nursing ancient 8GB disks would have to be the silliest plan of attack I have read all day. They are well past their use by date. Whats a 200GB worth nowadays?, $100 bucks? You want to do hourly backups (not that you would need to unless you stole Noah's harddrive) then buy a second harddrive. Throw that crap out.....	Metla (12)
606681	2007-10-31 10:18:00	Lmao, nursing ancient 8GB disks would have to be the silliest plan of attack I have read all day. They are well past their use by date. Whats a 200GB worth nowadays?, $100 bucks? You want to do hourly backups (not that you would need to unless you stole Noah's harddrive) then buy a second harddrive. Throw that crap out..... Nah. It has never given me trouble and neither has the backups. I use if for binary building, web & mysql server etc. Why spend $100 when it works perfectly well as it is? When it nuts out, guess what? I got another (3 actually) 8gig drives to replace it. Actually, it is an old machine altogether doing nothing but slave working. I got it for free too.	vinref (6194)
606682	2007-10-31 20:06:00	WD have a 5 year warranty too (at least on dome of their drives, don't know about the cheapest ones) Only the Raptors. There others are only 3 years.	pctek (84)
606683	2007-10-31 23:43:00	Only the Raptors. There others are only 3 years. I just checked out ascent & all their SATA drives have a 5 year warranty, not just the raptors. The IDE drives have a shorter warranty.	Greven (91)
606684	2007-10-31 23:51:00	I just checked out ascent & all their SATA drives have a 5 year warranty, not just the raptors. The IDE drives have a shorter warranty. support.wdc.com Enterprise Drives: WD Raptor, WD RE, WD RE2 ,GD, SD, SB, YD, YR, YS, ADFD, ADFS 5-year Desktop Drives: WD Caviar, WD Caviar SE, WD Caviar SE16 ,BB, LB, JB, PB, JD, JS, KS, KD, KS, ABKS, AABS, AAJS, AAKS, AABB, AAJB, AVBS, AVJS, AVBB, AVJB 3-year	pctek (84)
606685	2007-11-01 00:01:00	support.wdc.com Enterprise Drives: WD Raptor, WD RE, WD RE2 ,GD, SD, SB, YD, YR, YS, ADFD, ADFS 5-year Desktop Drives: WD Caviar, WD Caviar SE, WD Caviar SE16 ,BB, LB, JB, PB, JD, JS, KS, KD, KS, ABKS, AABS, AAJS, AAKS, AABB, AAJB, AVBS, AVJS, AVBB, AVJB 3-year Very interesting. I wonder why Ascent give you an extra 2 years?	Greven (91)
606686	2007-11-01 00:17:00	Backup every day. If you are doing something really important, backup every hour. Re-writeable disks and drives are cheap. If you are running a *nix, make sure you use fschk regularly. Then you can afford to run the hard disks into the ground until they die. I am still using old 8GB disks. Nothing has died on me yet, nor have I lost any data whatsoever.Oooh! Now there's a challenge to Fate!	johcar (6283)
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