So a week ago last monday both of my external hard drives at work crashed hard due to power problems in our building.

Well after some tinkering I was able to get one of them partially working to, thankfully, salvage a large amount of data I needed.

The hard drive is connected to my linux server, which I can access through samba on my windows machine.

Well, when I connected to it from my windows machine, I wanted to see how much data I salvaged so I did a RIGHT+CLICK->Properties and the image below is what was returned. Me and my co-worker were cracking up as to just how bad this hard drive was damaged.



I don't know how it happened, but the hard drive was reporting that it was 356,000+ GB in size. [img]images/smilies/rofl.gif[/img][img]images/smilies/rofl.gif[/img]

What I've learned from this:

Don't buy Maxtor products. This isn't the first time this hard drive has crashed either. I shoulda learned the first couple times. From now on, Seagate all the way.

 

Sell it on ebay

 

Can you host all the pr0n, so we can bring the NWS threads back?

 

stfu moron

 

Even if you divide that out by the 113,246 files you still get

3,544,402,438,096 (3.5 terrabytes) per file!

 

How much you wanna sell it for

 

PB I think they stopped after Terra.

 

mega giga tera peta exa zetta yotta

 

I wonder how long a defrag would take.

 

On a 286....

 

wow, now that is a lot of "media"

 

winnar! Does it also give you a 1800 # to call and collect your Maxtor prize? lol.

 

Did you low level format??? I had a drive saying it was twice its normal size. I 0'd the drive and it went back to normal.

 

1000 gigs = TB, 1000 TB = PB

so technically it says that you have 350,000,000 gb

 

:einstein:

 

Metric system wins again.

 

I had a similar incident, but not as funny as yours. I was trying to copy some music videos over a LAN connection and the power to the switch was cut during transfer.



If you do the math...about 19.5 years to copy that file.

 

I have had the best luck with Hitachi / IBM hard drives. Best quality on the market.

 

You mean the infamous Death Stars?

 

i was JUST about to say that

ibm is synonymous to "piece of shit hard drive" after a huge quality control problem on the deskstar line, hence "death star"

hell, i know my 75gpx died within 6 months

i stay away from maxtor, just stick to WD and seagate

 

See, the funny thing is, you can talk to 10 people and get 10 different answers on the quality of hard drives. No one can justify saying drive company x is more reliable than drive company y. The average consumer just doesn't see enough inventory. You can't base a company’s reliability on 5 hard drives, even 10. Ask someone like Dell, Compaq, or gateway for statistics on drive failures, and then you may have some arguable data.

Anyway, for all of you who suffered through the deathstar phase of the 75GXP series:
http://www.ibmdeskstar75gxplitigation.com/

No one here ever considers Samsung (what, you mean Samsung makes hard drives?). I know a few people who build systems (as their primary source of income) and swear by them because they see very little returns/RMA's vs. other drive manufacturers. I'm willing to accept their level of sampling vs. Joe-consumer who buys maybe one or two drives every couple years and claims they are either perfect or terrible based on their experience.

 

i could live in that hard drive

 

when i got a 40 MB hard drive back in 1990, 10 GB was unthinkable.

Nowadays, you find 3.5" SATA drives of 400 GB; i installed 2 already

 

There is not much to put on hard drives anymore except for MP3's and Porn.

 

But, sure there is.

Video Content in high definition, Super Audio CD content, 14+ MP pictures, etc. Sure we will continue to use a huge amount of storage.

 

We were using DeskStars in a slew of RAID5 arrays at work, and we kept losing them left and right. In the space of six months we had lost, at various times (thank goodness), every drive in one array, and a total of 15 DeskStar drives went south on us. When we switched to a different IBM series of drives, the problems went away.

And I would also steer clear of Western Digital hard drives. We had about 25 of them fail in a bunch of about 60 HP desktops with WD drives standard. (Those that failed under warranty were replaced by HP with Seagates.) It's no accident that in my local CompUSA stores, there are tons of WD drives on the shelves, and very few Maxtors and Seagates.

 

RAID5 puts lots of stress to the drives, on top of the bad design, it led the problem you had.

I have RAID 10 Systems running Maxtors and Seagate Cheetah SCSI 140GB U320. Until now, I have lost 3 Maxtor drives, which were replaced by Seagates. Havent had any more issues yet.

Now, I have backup servers running on 250 GB and 400 GB WD Caviar SATA and ATA drives. I have already exchanged 4 x 250 GB.

Have you heard about Lacie? I got 500 GB and 1 TB USB2 drives for 2nd backup solution. 2 500 GB drives already went south, luckily under warranty.

Never trust moving parts. Mirror the data!