Short Post:
My 5 month old Seagate 2TB HDD has crashed today. Its not even being detected by the BIOS. The damn thing was working fine till it crashed. No prior indications/warnings about any failures in SMART.
It produces 2 sounds in a continous loop:
Can someone also please guide me where I can RMA the HDD in Bangalore? What documents, if any, would be needed for RMA ?
Long Post:
My 5 month old Seagate 2TB HDD has crashed today. Its not even being detected by the BIOS. The damn thing was working fine till it crashed. No prior indications/warnings about any failures in SMART.
It produces 2 sounds in a continous loop:
- A short whirring sound. This sounds similar to when the CPU fan or case fan gets in contact with a wire.
- A "Beeping" sound.
- Put it in the Freezer. Supposedly, this will cool overheated electronics.
- Drop it from Half foot onto a soft surface. Supposedly, this can cause stuck heads to move.
Can someone also please guide me where I can RMA the HDD in Bangalore? What documents, if any, would be needed for RMA ?
Long Post:
Just feel like venting.
I had my PC download some stuff yesterday night, and crawled into bed while the downloads were still running. Today, early morning, I was woken up by what I had thought to be "beeping" from the PC. Groggy from sleep, I tried to hibernate it, but in the middle of the hibernate, it rebooted. Irritated, I just turned it off and crawled back again.
In the morning, I investigated deeper. Even on power up, the PC was giving the 2 sounds. I initially thought BIOS must have reset or gone bad. But the PC reached the BIOS startup screen after an inordinate delay. Troubleshooting, I disconnected my HDD one by one, oldest to youngest, until when the last HDD was disconnected, and the beeping stopped.
My heart skipped a beat . I wasn't sure which partitions I had on this last & the youngest drive, so I reconnected all the other HDD, and booted up. Luckily, it could have been worse. All 'my precious' was around (Photos, movies, songs). I realized that my partition with all of my installers was gone.
While not 'precious', it was still many years worth of various software I had downloaded & collected (Various flavours of Linux,BSDs, Solaris, Hobby OS's, Open Source Software, SDKs, Drivers). Not precious enough to send for data recovery, but still valuable enough for me to lament its loss.
Having just received a 1TB external HDD as "corporate goodie", I immediately backed up my "precious"
hyeah:. While I've dealt with HDD "growing" bad sectors before, this is the 1st time a HDD has gone total kaput on me. I'm seriously considering RAID on my next rig.
I had my PC download some stuff yesterday night, and crawled into bed while the downloads were still running. Today, early morning, I was woken up by what I had thought to be "beeping" from the PC. Groggy from sleep, I tried to hibernate it, but in the middle of the hibernate, it rebooted. Irritated, I just turned it off and crawled back again.
In the morning, I investigated deeper. Even on power up, the PC was giving the 2 sounds. I initially thought BIOS must have reset or gone bad. But the PC reached the BIOS startup screen after an inordinate delay. Troubleshooting, I disconnected my HDD one by one, oldest to youngest, until when the last HDD was disconnected, and the beeping stopped.
My heart skipped a beat . I wasn't sure which partitions I had on this last & the youngest drive, so I reconnected all the other HDD, and booted up. Luckily, it could have been worse. All 'my precious' was around (Photos, movies, songs). I realized that my partition with all of my installers was gone.
While not 'precious', it was still many years worth of various software I had downloaded & collected (Various flavours of Linux,BSDs, Solaris, Hobby OS's, Open Source Software, SDKs, Drivers). Not precious enough to send for data recovery, but still valuable enough for me to lament its loss.
Having just received a 1TB external HDD as "corporate goodie", I immediately backed up my "precious"
hyeah:. While I've dealt with HDD "growing" bad sectors before, this is the 1st time a HDD has gone total kaput on me. I'm seriously considering RAID on my next rig.
