I'm sure you've seen it before. In my case, that's my media harddrive dying. I wouldn't be surprised if it had finally croaked of old age, but this sucker is only a couple months old. In fact, this drive is my fresh replacement from the drive I just RMAed.
Who's to blame? I blame Western Digital for making a crummy harddrive. Come on! This is my second drive to die in almost as many months. It seems that WD's jump to 250 GB wasn't without it's problems.
Needless to say, I'm transferring as much as I can on to the Maxtor 120 GB drive I recently bought as a backup drive. Given my success with Maxtor in the past, I hope this drive has a more positive future. Of course, I'll keep RMAing my Western Digital drives until I finally get one that works!
BTW, if you haven't discovered "smartmontools", then open a terminal and type "emerge smartmontools" right now! (Or use "apt-get" if that's your thing.)
Posted by enigma at June 1, 2005 11:19 PMHard drives dying is the worst thing ever. I've only ever lost one, but I'm sure my time for number two is rapidly approaching as both my drives age.
/apt-get'ing smartmontools ...
Posted by: Steve at June 2, 2005 09:17 AMI've come to the conclusion that all hard drive brands are a crap-shoot. I've had particularly bad luck with Western Digital, but I have refused to buy their drives for the past 5 years so I can't comment on their recent quality.
I've been using Maxtor and Quantum for those last 5 years and only had 1 drive die on me, but YMMV. Basically I always keep two drives in my machine and cron backups to the second one--which sounds like what you're doing. The chance of losing both drives at once is slim.
Even so I'm still paranoid. I burn a CD every month. I've lost data, I've learned my lesson. :-)
Posted by: Kevin Worcester at June 2, 2005 09:30 AM