how soon before the HD dies?

[oinkbanana]

so i just got a 2TB drive to upgrade my 1TB i've been using for music this last year.
10 mins into transfering 900GB of data, and the old one started making fan rubbing related noise for the first time.

is it gonna last the 17hours to transfer all the data to the new drive?


maybe it's just jealous that it's being replaced?

[Mark]

so i just got a 2TB drive to upgrade my 1TB i've been using for music this last year.
10 mins into transfering 900GB of data, and the old one started making fan rubbing related noise for the first time.

is it gonna last the 17hours to transfer all the data to the new drive?


maybe it's just jealous that it's being replaced?

Fan rubbing noise??? There are no fans in an HDD. While the platter is spinning, the arm (and more specifically, the head) will move, sometimes rapidly, across the surface of the platter. It does this to read data, because data is not all stored together, each file has little chunks of it distributed evenly across the whole disk. It is pretty common to hear noises you might think strange, but for the most part these are OK and just the nature of the beast. However, if you hear odd clicks or whirring noises that you DON'T think are regular, then that is probably a warning sign. Of course, hard drives can and do fail all the time without any warning whatsoever. Chances are you'll be fine though.

[oinkbanana]

whirring noises

that's accurate.

but it's quieted down for now.

it's gonna take 17hours to transfer 1tb... ugh. doing it in 100GB chunks. letting it rest.

knock on wood.

[Caesar]

I'm looking forward to high speed Solid State Drives. That's huge.

Of course, they should use 12ax7 tubes, because everyone know toobz r better that ss

[Mark]

I'm looking forward to high speed Solid State Drives. That's huge.

Of course, they should use 12ax7 tubes, because everyone know toobz r better that ss

yeah, as soon as you can get a 1TB SSD for under 3000 dollars then I'm probably gonna hop on board :P

[deadbeatriot]

whirring noises

that's accurate.

but it's quieted down for now.

it's gonna take 17hours to transfer 1tb... ugh. doing it in 100GB chunks. letting it rest.

knock on wood.

i was gonna say, do it piecemeal. i find it actually goes a little faster.

[oinkbanana]

it's done!
and all the data survived.

[magiclawnchair]

it's done!
and all the data survived.