>PC runs perfectly fine as always
>hot rooftop flat
>hear click click click click while shutting down
>HDD not recognized anymore in Linux/Windows
1) Is it broken/what can I do to find out?
2) Is this a good HDD? The other held exactly 5 years.
>mindfactory.de
>HDD
user...
Spinning rust hdds are unreliable by design
A SSD would cost like 200€.
You can run the OS with a 64gb SSD that costs less that $20. The HDD is secondary for everything else. Also If your room is that hot you'd better have a good cooling solution for your case too.
OS runs fine on a 240GB M.2 SSD. It's just I have a lot of music, movies and other big files I want on another device. I could take the backup HDD. But where do I put the backup at?
Never get a 64gb OS drive. Windows caches everything you do on it and it will ALWAYS be full. Just get a 256gb one, shit's like 30€ regularly.
I recommend to get a ssd as well, 2TB are only 200€ and are superior in any way. I'd honestly rather get a 90€ 1TB one and just be more selective about the stored content.
HDDs are for 8TB+ and NAS drives these days, anything below 4TB isn't worth it at all.
Get an Odroid HC1 or HC2 and put the HDD in that and run open media vault. You might even learn a thing or two while at it.
>where do I put the backup?
Someplace cool.
>Never get a 64gb OS drive
My garage computer has been running on a cheap Sandisk 64gb for the least three years or so. There's still a little over 20gb to spare.
First test to see if your motherboard can detect the disk. If not...
If whatever is so incredibly important on that disk then get a linux live CD and see if it can detect that hard drive.
If no detection is to be had, it's dead.
See a repair specialist to see if they can extract anything.
Thanks! Brb.
>weird noises while booting
>not recognized in BIOS
>live boot recognizes it with one defective sector
>Seagate
Found your problem
>WD drives don't die too
wouldn't piss on a WD if it was on fire.
2TB of SSD storage cost me 160 eur.
All drives fail eventually, but seagate tend to fail sooner rather than later.
I had the ST2000DM006 2TB and it failed after about ~2000 hours, around 3 months.
Not even that hard. Now the switch.
I had a WD green that failed in the car on the way home from the store, so what? It's all pot luck.
>snog two different substances
>die in your overheated flat before all your data transfers
Okay, looks pretty gut. Suspected defective HDD is not recognized in HDD case so it's most probably defective.
Pretty true, sadly. Nearly happened last week.
Should I buy now a new external HDD or an internal HDD?
True, bad example though, since WD Green drives have a high failure rate due to head parking.
Y'all missing the point - DM001s were absolutely crap and had firmware issues.