Question: I have gone through 3 hard drives, the 3rd one marks today. First lasted 1 year, other 2 have ended up lasting 1-2 months. Is this a coincidence? The hard drives which ended up lasting 1-2 months were both a few years old, but never ever used.
So, a few questions:
Perhaps my components are damaging the hard drive in a way, such as my PSU (ThermalTake 80+ White PSU)? Would that be possible?
Is this a coincidence that I lost 3 hard drives so quickly, or is something else behind this?
The last 2 hard drives which broke down in under 2 months are making repeated rewind noises with intervals of 3-5 seconds, and refuse to boot past the Windows loading screen. How can I recover the data from all 3 drives, would it be possible?
One last question – I am getting a new NVMe soon. (first question) Could that be possible? Would it be at risk from being in this setup?
The last 2 drives both had a sudden rewind noise, then after reboot, were put into a SFC scan. After the scan, the drives were unbootable with the first one going to Recovery, and the second one unable to boot properly. What can I do here?
Answer:
I have gone through 3 hard drives, the 3rd one marks today. First lasted 1 year, other 2 have ended up lasting 1-2 months. Is this a coincidence? The hard drives which ended up lasting 1-2 months were both a few years old, but never ever used.
So, a few questions:
Perhaps my components are damaging the hard drive in a way, such as my PSU (ThermalTake 80+ White PSU)? Would that be possible?
Is this a coincidence that I lost 3 hard drives so quickly, or is something else behind this?
The last 2 hard drives which broke down in under 2 months are making repeated rewind noises with intervals of 3-5 seconds, and refuse to boot past the Windows loading screen. How can I recover the data from all 3 drives, would it be possible?
One last question – I am getting a new NVMe soon. (first question) Could that be possible? Would it be at risk from being in this setup?
The last 2 drives both had a sudden rewind noise, then after reboot, were put into a SFC scan. After the scan, the drives were unbootable with the first one going to Recovery, and the second one unable to boot properly. What can I do here?
Real life expectancy of HDDs is from next second to forever. In another wors they can die at any time hence the need for backups.
Quality, make and model play large role but also many and often on-off cycles as well as usage, frequent defragmentation and testing can put a lot of strain on them and shorten their life. Other causes could be varying voltage or overvoltage and are also sensitive to movement while running, even a small bump can make heads crash on the surface. During the years I had them go bad in a year or so but still have some 10 or more years running like new.