Not again...

[stellar_muddle]

So, the 1Tb hard drive acquired as a backup of the main computer drive as of Christmas 2009.

Click click click noises and now looks dead.

Hmph.

5 months old.

At least still have the receipt (camera purchase at the same time), but an awfully quick death. Will have to see whether outside standard warranty period (usually 90 days by default, doesn't say otherwise on purchase so have nasty suspicion, but Consumer website would seem to indicate that 1 year would be usual/acceptable). We shall see.

Had just finished backing up one of the main computer partitions to one of the 500Gb hard drives. Time to accelerate the backup of the other partition to the other 500Gb hard drive.

Grrr. No lost data yet, but still grrrrrr.

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[stellar-muddle.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately it is a Seagate one with the sealed in external case. Checking it again this morning, it appears to be behaving fine with none of last night's glitches when playing stuff, but is producing the same camera like loud clicks when scanning disk. Yet to see if it stalls at the same place as last time.

It just has a mirror of two of the main partitions on our main machine, so haven't lost any data yet.

[bloodrage.livejournal.com]

Get one of these beasties and jam in the second drive and run them mirrored and be done with it.

http://www.ascent.co.nz/productspecification.aspx?
ItemID=382403

I'm trying to scavenge up some cash for the ReadyNAS Duo, which is the next model up.

A lot of the cheap-to-reasonably priced external drives seem to be only good for transporting data, not for backup. In particular they don't like longish periods of constant use, or periods of intense use.