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Told you so [HDD failure]
Samsung 1T Black, puked at 7200 for not long, but that makes it really black and blue now, mostly all over. Temperature issues, as I suspected. Been through this with a newer WD 2T, near in getting it to take after cleaning connections then repeatedly powering up from a docking station. How that works: You're a lucky SOB if it does. Anyway, the Samsung simply wasn't, so I knew to put a 4" 115V fan on it and blast away some heat;- then it took, glory be, from the docking station, only to error out quickly as heat built up again -- or so might, albeit falsely, to seem. Been through that with the WD, so wasn't into another trip to hell: The WD was 2T as I recall, and this 1T was bad enough for moderately better, at 4 or 5 hours of crap. How that works, Scenario Two (without the heat): I unhooked a DVD and dangled SATA/PWR cables into the Samsung, first cooling it down again, for getting it up off SATA instead of the docking station USB2 speeds. That would be 130Kbytes/sec tranx to a SSD, steadily for something around 15 minutes over 200Gbyte, as drive heat didn't fault over the entire time. I turned the computer off and the Samsung wouldn't pick itself up off the floor again (goes through BIOS, causing the OS "stresses and delay", even though the disk itself does always get that far, identified, except for not being recognized from OS reports it's unformatted. IOW - cooled down is apparently the only chance at getting at saving the initial format and data. Call me Mister Lucky. (Still have another 2Tbyte drive that decidedly could use work on a restorative backup HDD set and ready to go, that I haven't gotten around to yet.) So much for grenades in exploding outhouses. I transferred that 200Gbyte off the SSD for writing it to a 1.5Tbyte NEC, in moving to the same SATA cable at a little more than half the speed copied from the Samsung. Iced it by putting the Samsung, along with it's 800G free space, into a box with a special label that says -- BAAADDDDD ??? At some point the wish occurred to test a spare 500G SSD, which I don't own. Or, I might as well kill off the rest of my HDDs, I thought might "save me" more gloriously at the time of their purchase, than how things are actually working out;- although I wouldn't mind trying, at least, to become a Born-Again SSD proselyte. Maybe by when my HDDs are dead, SSD prices will arise to a convenience of $50/US for a 1Tbyte. Hells Bells, I'd drop $50 into a 500Gbyte Samsung EVO SSD, even a Crucial, probably for half an excuse better to do: Barely gasping out a very last recovery from mechanical HDDs gets old quick;- Intriguing, decidedly, should a SSD proposition fly for a couple more decades at least, as they're not written to hard but assumedly, I should think, less than average. Break's up. Getting ready for a work-out when the Samsung puked on me. Hope that cures all latencies, or more HDD replacements (about a 7 Tbyte storage system). I've still the NEC to put back in, readjust for it, then do a binary backup image of the OS. Finish it off for a T-Bar day, regardless: one 45lb., 2 35lbs. and a 25lb. plate on the end of a 40lb. barbell;- 150lbs. discounting half the barbell anchored with a 40lb dumbell over the opposite end, stuck up against a 12" wood stab of 2x4";- 3 more 25lb plates, 3 more sets, to it get up to 225lbs. at 5 reps on the last set. Not so bad considering deadlifts tomorrow, initially the same thing, up to twice the weight, but with legs and lower back focus instead of upper side lats pulling from a narrow grip. Where a NEC HDD, of course, is always nice for background ambience to an Audio/Visual system. Look at it this way: Driving them until they just start to puke again is sort of the same thing for considering how more or less HDDs get made. |
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