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On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 13:41, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 2010/10/9 Fatih Tümen <fthtmn+gentoo@×××××.com>: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> When I ran eix hdf command, all of a sudden my usb drive started |
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>> making weird noises. I only have ccache, distfiles and packaes |
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>> directories on sda2, the usb disk partition. I don't know why eix |
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>> waked up the disk. Eix hung there non-responding for a moment as the |
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>> disk kept making noises, so I interrupted the task. Immediately |
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>> checked the logs[0] and umounted the device as a reflex. |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> I recently had USB external hdd that started to make clicking noises |
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> and beeping sounds and I couldn't access it at all anymore. I thought |
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> "oh no, click of death"... but I also noticed very faint high-pitch |
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> sound coming from the power supply. I contacted the hdd manufacturer |
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> and they sent me a new power supply for free. Everything worked |
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> perfectly after replacing it. |
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> In the past, with the same drive in fact, I also had problem with the |
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> USB link dropping, which was causing disk corruption. I tried a |
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> different USB cable but same problem persisted. Who knows if this was |
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> also caused by the bad power supply, or USB hub overload on my |
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> computer. I had about 10 USB devices attached at the time. I removed |
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> some and moved around to spread the load out a bit and it worked fine |
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> after that. |
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> Since replacing the power supply, I've used the same hdd with 2 other |
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> computers and haven't have any issues so far. |
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Also had PSU problems with external drives a while ago, I asked a |
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friend to modidy a full ATX computer PSU for me so it could power two |
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drives, never had problems again (the psu that comes with those things |
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is just too cheap, tend to overheat and fail a lot). |
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I never use 2.5 HDD USB enclosures for constant workload with no |
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cooling at all (most cases for 2.5 drives have no cooler and rely on |
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heat transfer from an aluminum body, wich is simply unreliable). |
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On the other hand, I had a new, cooled 3.5 HDD fail on me after two |
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days operation. It was promptly replaced by Seagate. The dread click |
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of death... Of course I tested it on a SATA controller before calling |
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it dead. |
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Funny story. I had one drive that failed once (clicking) and I read |
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somewhere to "cool" it. So I put the damn thing on the refrigerator, |
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took it out after a while (it was so cold!), plugged in, and what the |
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heck, it started working again and I was able to backup all of the |
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data. After that it worked for a long time before failing again, lol. |
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Now I always "cool" a clicking drive before replacing it. True story. |
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Daniel da Veiga |
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