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It's been sounding like a dead fan bearing in the rack for a while, there's really old machines in there. Turns out no! The drive did the screeching. I was stunned for a second when the noise stopped upon its removal.

Platter smoke. Don't breathe this!

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[–] sturger 76 points 1 month ago

Is that the Striped RAID I keep hearing about?

/s

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just spray some WD-40 in there, format it at half the capacity, and send it!

You got this πŸ‘

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Seagate: ...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It’ll go way faster than 5200 RPM if you do that

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

At least you know the data is wiped XD

[–] chickenf622 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The hard drive was just trying to turn itself into a much trendier vinyl record.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The bits just have that analogue warmth that you don't get with conventional drives

[–] IrateAnteater 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's nothing funnier to me than the jargon you get from "audiophile" gear, especially when it comes to stuff in the digital domain. I've seen "audiophile" network switches.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Or fiber optic cables with gold plated connectors.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

So that's what striping a drive does.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had no idea hard disks came ribbed for her pleasure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

"you want me to do what to wipe that drive?!"

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Don’t breathe this

Is that a Will It Blend reference?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Obviously, has to be.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

'tis but a scratch!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I've taken apart most of my failed drives over the years. For laser pointer projects that never come to fruition.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Gotta feed the fridge πŸ‘

[–] achance4cheese 7 points 1 month ago

Always nice to see what spinning rust looks like after I run shred -v -z /dev/sda. I bet that drive has lots of zeroes now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Somebody tell Steve Gibson that we finally found something Spinrite won't handle.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Are you sure about that?

I've run Spinrite on a HDD that was literally shot with a shotgun.

I mean sure the drive crapped out halfway through the test, but shit, it was shot with a fucking shotgun!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That sound like something you should put on youtube or another streaming service.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That was ages ago, I wasn't thinking to try recording anything back then. It was some piece of shit desktop, I wanna say it had a 40GB hard drive.

Whoever tossed the system must have been attempting to wipe out their data in the most redneck way possible, shotgun.

They shot the side of the computer case, which partly protected the drive from the shotgun pellets, but it was still basically a direct hit to the HDD.

TL;DR - Sorry, no video ☹️

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah. I suspect it would still recover some data. Steve is just a treasure to the tech world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

If I recall correctly, it made it up to about 43% through the scan and sector refresh, but after 43%, the drive totally failed ☹️

It wasn't even an important system anyways, it was found in the trash or on the side of the road somewhere. Sorry, my late father had found it, so I can't exactly ask where it came from.

But it was a fun curious project, just to see what, if anything, might happen with a good ole Spinrite.

Shit, it was shot with a shotgun, not like I had high hopes πŸ˜‚πŸ€£

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Looks pretty, also you can play with magnets now!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Hm... To shreads you say.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

That drive is cursed

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

At least it gave you warning. I woke up to the 4TB WD gold drive being a brick. Doesn't show up on Linux or MacOS. The electronics are dead. No SMART warnings. Nothing. Don't think I'm buying another of these things. And the price went up (of course).

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

That's actually good news compared to whatever the fuck happened to OP's drive. You might be able to swap the controller board and get it working again if you need the data off it or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That mixtape had some really cool tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

It looks angry.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Looks ... chippy.

"Spanabhebende Datenverarbeitung" in German.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Data mining the hard way.