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So I bought a WD Green terrabyte drive on Sunday because my computer was locking up after about 10 minutes or so of using it. Restarts were the same way. Instead of testing which one was the culprit (or for fear of loosing everything no backups bad hippy!) I ran like hell to worst buy for a replacement.
So after setting it up and playing with the drives the problem seems to lie with my 500 gig hd being connected to the computer. I have my old main drive currently connected to my computer running on the new drive with no problems.
I have no clue about how hard drives fail (I will admit this is my first but hell I started only 5 years ago and this is my fourth or fifth computer (up until now I settled). So what are the stress points on this drive? Does using an external device have any effect? Is this something I should send off? If I stress test it will that kill it? Is one way of extracting data less abusive than another?
Thanks to any and all for their expertise I was too busy studying processors and such...D'Oh!
Oh and my build is in my signature.
So after setting it up and playing with the drives the problem seems to lie with my 500 gig hd being connected to the computer. I have my old main drive currently connected to my computer running on the new drive with no problems.
I have no clue about how hard drives fail (I will admit this is my first but hell I started only 5 years ago and this is my fourth or fifth computer (up until now I settled). So what are the stress points on this drive? Does using an external device have any effect? Is this something I should send off? If I stress test it will that kill it? Is one way of extracting data less abusive than another?
Thanks to any and all for their expertise I was too busy studying processors and such...D'Oh!
Oh and my build is in my signature.