Storage Solutions The inevitable! 250 GB HDD Kaput!

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Hi guys,

The infamous 7200.8 Seagate 250 GB has found a new victim.... and this time its me... :@

I was so busy with other changes and what-not that I totally forgot the impeding doom! Now what to do. I had well over 150 GB of data (of which 50-60 GB were utterly critical) Any way I can recover it?

I searched a lot of forums and thousands of other people are having issues with their 7200.8 drivers...... the culprit, sometimes the driver controller and sometimes the "SMOOTH" chip (a FPGA on the back of the drive) which overheats!

The only viable solution for me is to blow direct air on the drive and attempt to recover as much data as possible. This frecking POS!

Any other suggestions? :huh:

The bad drive just corrupted my Windows installation and I reinsatlled the OS on C:.

Regards,

Karan
 
Ive read somewhere that u hav to keep the hdd(enclosed in a plastic bag) in the frezeer for abt an hour. after that u might be able to get your data.
 
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Ive read somewhere that u hav to keep the hdd(enclosed in a plastic bag) in the frezeer for abt an hour. after that u might be able to get your data.
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well i did one thing then it jumped back into life. i kept it right outside the ac vent so that i chilled down to 16 C or something. since then it has been running....... busy backing up data and then this b1tch is going to seagate service station (for a replacement.) you know, when those idiots try to outsmart you, there is one single approach..... find a comfortable chair, and sit! every 5 mins, "bhaiya kya hua?" they will oblige sooner than later.
 
chk out the storagereview forums, the 7200.8 is not as bad as it appears...most of the bad reliability reviews it got was due to overheating...ppl use it in cabinet n usb enclosures without proper cooling...imho temp of any hdd should never cross 40c...i have a 70cfm 120mm fan blowing on my 400x2, 300 gb 7200.8's..the drive temps never cross 36-38....no probs for almost a year now..
 
well, the seagate has the problem exactly..... it overheats........ none of my wd raptors have any problem and they sit in the came cabinet, just beneath the seagate......... i am going for a RMA to replace this POS!

+ my HDD temps regularly crossed the 44 C mark...... the antec default fans suck bad.......
 
my seagates have never crossed 38-39deg in my cabinet. & i dont have a fan directly blowing on my hdds. its just the normal setup of the antec plusview.

44 is kinda high. maybe a prob with ur hdd.
 
stormblast said:
my seagates have never crossed 38-39deg in my cabinet. & i dont have a fan directly blowing on my hdds. its just the normal setup of the antec plusview.

44 is kinda high. maybe a prob with ur hdd.
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hmm back up complete........

yea re, this particular 7200.8 has a issue with overheating and it runs hot itself. POS!

going for RMA now...... cya m8s later.
 
Lol...

I told you get it replaced with the 7200.9 Sooner rather than later :bleh:..

But NoOoOOOoOOoO..... Your more focused on the DFi :bleh:...
 
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