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On 10 Oct 2010, at 17:28, Fatih Tümen wrote: |
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>> The noise you're describing is indicative of mechanical failure. |
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> That I was fearing but I cant understand how it can fail all of a |
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> sudden. I did not drop it or something. Just ran eix and boom. Would |
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> you call it a coincidence of running eix with the best before date of |
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> the disk? |
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Total coincidence. It has nothing to do with eix - you'll likely be running something on the drive when it fails, that's not what causes the problem. |
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Most hard-drive failures have nothing to do with being dropped. It's simply that hard-drives spin at 5,000 - 10,000 rpm, about the same speed as a car engine, but unlike a car engine they don't have an oil pump and a radiator and all that stuff to lubricate them. |
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Hard-drives are simply prone to mechanical failure - wearing out, in other words, |
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> There is a forensic lab quite close |
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> to me but I doubt that they would bother with this or whether it would |
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> worth the effort. |
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They would probably bother if you paid them enough. I would probably consider $500 cheap, and might well expect to pay twice or several times that. In the cases of clicking drives I've had quite some success with ddrescue for no cost. |
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Stroller. |
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