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 Eight Ways To Kill Your HDD, About what NOT to do to prolong HDD life

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Deslack
post Feb 5 2008, 09:53 PM

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QUOTE(Setan[X] @ Feb 2 2008, 10:22 PM)
my 4 month old seagate 320gb dying on me now.. got wierd sound inside when shake, n never drop, bang thing near it also... some how the laser arm is loose n could hear the disc inside spinning when shake... n that one is full with files... omg omg... been using seagate for years no prob.. this one made in china which from day one im not satisfied with the quality, the pin look thin n weak n etc... gonna rma it soon but need to get a new 320gb or 400gb first to salvage what can from it... its a heart break!!  cry.gif...
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Why would you shake a harddisk, seriously?

If the "laser" arm is loose, it'll fly around smashing those platters with your data along.

No point in RMA-ing a working hard drive. You'll get it returned with the technician running a diag or two just to return it to you as 'PASSED'

 

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