April 22, 2008
When your hard drive goes tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk
Sometimes when it rains, it pours.
I didn’t feel all that wonderful today so I ended up working from home. That’s when I discovered that my home desktop’s hard drive probably has a hardware failure.
Since late last week, my PC had been locking up for 5-10 minutes at a time, where nothing would respond and my hard drive would simply go “tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk”.
Well, now it simply won’t even boot.
This is pretty not cool considering I bought this computer in mid-January. I have heard that hard drives have a pretty high fail rate these days, but this is pretty ridiculous.
Fortunately, Dell is sending me a replacement hard drive. Let’s see how this pans out…
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2 Comments to “When your hard drive goes tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk”
April 23rd, 2008 at 9:02 am
Hard drives, like many mechanical devices, have a bathtub-shaped mortality curve. They either die young or die old, rarely will they fail in midlife. Perhaps Dell skimped on the burn-in period.
April 23rd, 2008 at 11:19 am
RAID5 baby! it’s the only way to roll
For backup, I’m currently using a drobo, which is nice because you don’t have to think about it. Only problem is, it’s slow. But for a backup solution, it works fast enough
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