Storage Solutions Segate 500 Gb went kaput in One and half months

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My latest machine (4 years old) has a 80Gb samsung drive and its working fine. My older machine(8 years old) has a 20Gb HDD and its still behaving as a new one :)
I have another HDD from my oldest machine(the machine is no longer there). The capacity of this is 540 MB :ohyeah: (You read the correct its 540 MB) and it is still Rock Solid. I am using that drive to take my Dad's Tally backup :hap2:
 
My 5 year old 40 gig seagate is working great but my 250 gig HD one year old is still good as new so maybe it's just a question of luck.

After reading this thread i'm surely only gonna use the 40GB HDD as download/torrent drive,not taking any chances.
 
What the heck ???? Who gave u the concept of Bittorrent + High speed = HDD failure. People around the globe have 45++ Mbps line and i say nearly 30% of the users on such high bandwidth are using bittorrent or any such softwares.

So by your theory each and those HDD should conk off very rapidly. And if u say some HDD are bad and cannot take such high read/write queries then how can u directly connect it to Torrents.

And for the reason why old HDD works better then new one, compare the cost guys, i bought a 20 gig HDD 8 years back which for 11k. Nowadays for 11k one can get more than 1TB and at that time it was like u will find 1TB only @ Datacenters.

To reduce price quality will decrease if u want good quality HDD why don't u spend more and buy a Server grade HDD.

The HDD failure can be due to many reasons, faulty power supply, there were many twist or sharp bends on the data cable. power surge etc..... or if u r out of luck u got a hdd from a bad batch. And also keep in mind your HDD needs cooling if u have stuffed the hdd in a case which does not have adequate ventilation & u have high read/write queries.....

Just my 5 cents........
 
Exactly. Maybe high speeds combined with other factors might be causing this. Power supply etc etc or the hardware combo may not be right.

Luck surely plays a part but the point is that not every HDD will conk off but the probability is more if your HDD is running continuously for hours at high speeds
 
Second Andrew..

1 Mbps is a very slow transfer rate in terms of HDD transfer, infact playing games causes more stress due to the large cache files and max transfer speeds....
 
:) finally i see somebody agrees with me :).

until someone actually tests these 'theories' in a proper controlled/monitored environment, they are gonna remain just that, 'theories'..
 
* read the article b4 posting, if you haven't*

Did i say they conk it off in a few months..??

I said years + long hours of downloading ...

If u have read the article ( 2nd page then i have given both the points ) ...

The article is about preventative action.. not about validating vague theories...
 
ultra vires said:
High speed internet and using bittorent...
Reason : Bittorent writes small chunks of data on ur HDD (very fast) and with high speed internet this becomes all to insane, your HDDs will die sooner or latter if you haven't configured a large cache size for your torrent client before it writes data to the HDD
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What does that means :huh: :huh:
 
Dude that guide is just misleading people & 100% Crap, and thats what i meant that people around the globe have 45mbps++ and there might be 30% people using bitorrent or other such softwares. And if 2mbps line can make a HDD conk off in years what will be the effect of 45mbps++ line. I think the hdd should conk off in weeks..... So please do not mislead people by saying Bittorrent will make your HDD conk off in few years [or whatever time u specify] if u do not do this and that.

Tell me when the chunks are downloaded in such high MB's what will be the effect when the download is complete ??????
 
100 mb

with 10kb piece size(may vary) = 10000 pieces in total ( 10000 writes ) ( since by default the option is enabled to write finished pieces to the HDD )

with normal downloads 1mb cache ( may vary ) = 100 pieces in total ( 100 writes )

10000 writes = more heated HDD than 100 writes ( time taken to download is same )

Greater the amount of time that HDD operates under High temp. = accelerated aging ( this is a fact, you can read articles that mention the effect of higher operating temp. on HDD's)

If you think its a piece of crap ( i have already mentioned that in article ) then good for you ... don't follow the guide..

Note : the piece size varies for different torrent files... just used that 10kb as an example..

Heating and HDD

Link : Hard Disk Drives | Library | Hitachi's Drive Temperature Indicator Processor (Drive-TIP)
 
Dude, u mean for 1mb it will write once so if u keep 10MB cache size it will write be 1/10 of a write cycle. Talk sense It all depends on your Allocation Unit size. Go back and learn the basics that how the HDD reads & writes on different File Systems. And for your info have a look at the pagefile.sys file if you use windows it will be locate in the root of the Drive where windows is installed and do a research why is it used.......

I'm not replying to any of your questions or crappy theory's from now as its just a waste of time and useless.
 
The cache(mem, your torrent client) is stored in ram(if you have big enough RAM, you can completely get rid of PF...you can try it ) before writing to HDD

Talk sense .. .. your reasoning is POS ... not worth replying to ur mindless crap..
 
ultra vires said:
The cache(mem, your torrent client) is stored in ram(if you have big enough RAM, you can completely get rid of PF...you can try it ) before writing to HDD

Talk sense .. .. your reasoning is POS ... not worth replying to ur mindless crap..
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Agree with this. You need to differentiate between:
1. uTorrent cache
2. HDD cache
3. RAM
4. Pagefile

They are totally different things.
 
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