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Ha ha ha epic fail!

Last time I had a clicking HD I threw it out the window of my third story apartment. Definitely fixed the clicking :cool:
 
I thought one shouldn't open the hard drive cover as the disk was spinning in vacuum and it would get irreparably damaged once open in air?
 
funkymatt said:
I thought one shouldn't open the hard drive cover as the disk was spinning in vacuum and it would get irreparably damaged once open in air?
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No, just a "clean" room is required, and a duplicate drive.

This allows data recovery services to switch the platter from a dead drive to a good one.
 
I want my 57 seconds back.

Thats not a fail. A fail would imply he is actually attempting to fix a problem and "failed" in the process, normally with a comical outcome. This was just plain stupid.
 
LeandrodaFL said:
Why the HDD started clicking? So far, my HDD's haven't done that, been running over 4 years.
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It's a crap shoot.

Not enough memory causes 'thrashing', to move data back and forth.

This adds many extra cycles to the read-write heads.

Hi-bred drives would make this less likely. Straight-out SSD's would finally make this a thing of the past.
 
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