[mythtv-users] Booohooohoooo......

Brian Wood beww at beww.org
Sun Jul 13 00:34:25 UTC 2008


On Saturday 12 July 2008 18:19:10 Brian Foddy wrote:
> > Brian Wood wrote:
> > > On Saturday 12 July 2008 15:48:22 Francesco Peeters wrote:
> > >> Nick Morrott wrote:
> > >>> 2008/7/12 Francesco Peeters <francesco at fampeeters.com>:
> > >>>> My USB harddisk on which my MythTV FE/BE lives died... The drive
> > >>>> won't spin up anymore, and I currently don't have time to rebuilt on
> > >>>> a new device, and I really don't want to either, because I meant to
> > >>>> make that machine a net-boot machine...  *rolls eyes*
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Why does shit like that always happen at the most inconvenient
> > >>>> times...
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Only good bit is that this drive is less than 2 years old, so I will
> > >>>> at least get a new one from WD!...
> > >>>
> > >>> Sorry to hear about the failure. I often wonder whether external
> > >>> drives have adequate cooling and ventilation, especially when they
> > >>> are used heavily. Do/did you monitor your HDD temps via SMART? Was
> > >>> the external drive purchased as a single unit (drive plus enclosure)
> > >>> or did you purchase the two separately?
> > >>
> > >> I wondered too, but it was a complete unit by WD, so I assumed they
> > >> had done at least some testing on that!  ;-)
> > >>
> > >> I did not continuously monitor the temps, but whenever I did, they
> > >> weren't outlandish high (iirc approx 45-47°C) though...
> > >>
> > >> All it does now is make short buzz sounds (approx .5 secs every 2
> > >> secs), which sounds like it tries to spin up, but somethings keeping
> > >> it from doing so...
> > >>
> > >> Even allowing it to cool down for a day didn't help... Maybe I'll put
> > >> it in a bag and toss it in the freezer for a few hours to see if that
> > >> makes a bit of a difference...
> > >
> > > I have had some luck with twisting the drive on its axis by hand, turn
> > > your hand in the same plane the platters spin in. The idea is to
> > > overcome the starting friction of the platters, the rolling friction is
> > > far less.
>
> However, don't do this if you expect to get the drive replaced on warranty.
> Opening the case will void it.

I assume you mean the USB case, opening the drive itself outside a clean room 
is not a good idea.

If the drive failed under warranty then replacing it through that process is 
probably the best, unless you're the impatient type like me.

beww


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