sydras said:
Sometime ago, I'd read that data shows short stroked disks more prone to failure. i.e. for eg: a 250gb disk might use 2 133gb platters. One platter would be region limited for usage to yield a combined capacity of 250gb.
Such drives are more prone to failure.
W.r.t to partitions having anything to do with it, I don't think there are any statistics to prove it. Or else they haven't as yet been taken. Have you RMA'd your HDD? Where is is manufactured?
Well it was all default, HDD was Hitachi and i dont exactly remember wer it was manuafactured..probably Japan or Taiwan...am sorry cant remember it..!!
Well regardin RMAing...i dont know how to do it.!! so i dint do anything...Well i was gonna use Hitachi HDD Tool and change its specification from 1.5 to 3 but din get a chance.
Lets c i have given it for replacement yesterday, No Hitachi Service centres in Pune so gave to dealer, will take sm 10-12 days..
Yamaraj said:
It was probably a bad PSU or faulty disk controller.
Dunno abt Disk Controller..!! but rare chance of PSU gettin bad..coz i hv Gold Plated Powersafe 500W..
sangram said:
Intra-partition copying on a disk is the worst possible thing for your disk, causes a lot of drive stress.
Windows does not recognise the fact that the data is on the same physical disk. It copies from volume to volume, so the process goes like this:
Identify data (seek) and read into the disk buffer of the source volume
Send the data to the target volume buffer
Acknowledge the write
Go to step 1.
Within the disk it has to seek to the source location for a read and the target location to write.
When the two volumes reside on the same physical disk, the heads move twice for the same operation, plus they have to go seeking all over the disk.
This does cause low transfer rates, but should not lead to failure - maybe the disk was on the edge already and the excess mechanical movement caused failure.
Partition size on its own should not be a problem, I have a 300GB with one partition (279 GB) and a couple of them with two partitions (200GB + 79 GB) each, and they've always behaved themselves.
Ya coz what happened was......
1) Transferrin from 110GB partition to 53GB partition - Transfer rate 5Mbps and after some time CRC Error...
2) Transfering same data in lil chunks - Same Transfer rate and successful copying..
3) CRC Errors very frequent...
4) While Copying Machine Hanged...After Restart it asked me to Scan that 110 GB partition for errors...while scanning with Chkdsk...it started reportin that so and so sector cannot be read...and it went on went on...and after that..the HDD restarted and same process..again.....so what i did on next restart was....skipped the Scan..
5) Now the System was DEAD SLOW..it almost felt worse than PI and 32MB RAM, slowly i checked my drives and that 110GB was shown as blank and RAW..i.e no NTFS and no FAT 32..wen i tries accessin it...it said the drive isnt formatted...!! and then the HDD startin makin noise.."tik tik tik tik"
6) wen i restarted again...the same Noise was coming..all over.."tik tik tik" and after few restarts again..!! it wasnt even gettin detected ...
That was pretty much everything...!!
NOW WHERE DID I GO WRONG :S :no: :no: