Storage Samsung F3 just died!

*moan thread*

sorry if i annoy any one

my 18 month old samsung F3 1TB just died - was in our NAS as file sharing / storage drive for the family and poof , this AM whilst streaming it died;

got it out and after 5 attempts finally spun up and was recognised by PC - i thought ` oh golly gosh darn this isnt good` - and tried to back up - got 300GB off it then poof its gone for the last time.


granted its probably been hammered in the NAS , but not happy , lost another 400 GB of stuff , inc my eldest sons school projects, its not even recognised in bios so cant even throw spinrite at it


18 months and it died = not impressed


*moan over*

 

You need a raid NAS and a winning lottery ticket to fill it with hard drives.

 

If it was spinning you can try the old freezer trick to try and get more data off it.

Can't you restore from backup?

 

might try it before i goes off to be RMA - but im thinking the motot has died

as for back up - it was the back up!

 

Do you know what the operational temperature was over it's lifetime?

 

If it WAS the backup, surely the original is still ok............

 

its a harsh lesson to learn, but imo a single drive as backup isnt a good enough solution, you really need at least 2 drives in a mirrored raid to have any form of backup.

I hope you manage to retrieve more data, and have a look at a 2 bay nas box or similar.

 

eldest son says the stuff was on his usb stick - and is now emailing the important stuff - again , to the teachers - its just annoying

 

now the day gets better - theres a firmware fault in the drive between the F3 and my motherboard FFS

FFS

mines on firmware from 2010 - not the new one , so if i had kept it in the NAS it likely could have LIVED


**** SAKE

drive is HD103SJ as well

 

But if it is the back up then surely there is the primary copy on a desktop or other hard drive?

 

no , its on his usb stick...... he didnt have a backup till last week of all his work...

 

Noooo beautiful drives they are (usually). You should have a service and bury it. Or alternatively, RMA it.

 

I feel your pain, man. I had a 500GB F3 die on my in 3 weeks of purchase. Replacement going strong, tho (combined with paranoid backups to second drive)...

 

I've had problems too -> http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=203713

Just cross my fingers now, if they go they go :S

 

You need a more robust back up solution. You said this drive was back up, but clearly not, or you would have another hard drive with the same data on it. If you haven't, then it wasn't back up.

I feel your pain, but I hope this has prompted you to take data back up far more seriously.