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hi
please I don't know whats wrong
I have a problem with my 5 tb hard drive after moving and i got everything set up again
and when I plugin in my 5 tb hard drive it says its full ? it has alot of space on it cant add anything to it and I have tryed to restart my pc afew times ......any ideas
it sees all my other hard drives
thank you for your timeTry removing it from its' case and install it directly into your Tower, then use Seagates Smart Drive test tools to troubleshoot your drive. It is possible that the drive's adapter board got damaged in your move.
IMO and for future reference, avoid seagate like the plague. There's a reason they are inexpensive. I've lost just about every seagate HD I've had within 3 years, including externals. My WD's have been clicking along, some for 6 years (albeit, that one is only 250 GB external). I lost 1.5 TB of 3d content and at least that much media thanks to a usb 2 controller surge, which took out both connected seagates but not the 2 WDs. Food for thought....
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Western Digital Re if you want a reliable HDD.
They are enterprise class and carry a 5 year warranty.There are many for sale on that online marketplace who's name I dare not mention.
🙂Also, probably of no help right now as you're trying to salvage your data but never have your data in just one place if you can help it. If you buy a drive for storing shit on, but a 2nd drive to back it up on. It's added expense but think of how relieved you'll be if a drive dies and you actually have a working backup.
@not-hunter, I'd take Backblaze statistics with a pinch of salt. Their use case is not typical so their statistics although interesting don't really correlate to the common user. And when you take into account they are only giving you information for a 3 month period when the hardware isn't fresh it can be misleading.
They are a server-farm using off the shelf desktop hard drives. They run their drives fulltime with increased writes due to the nature of their business. A typical user will not be doing this but using the drive for what it's rated for. What they consider a "failure" could be an increase in error detection, well before the drive actually fails but it's never reported that way.
I'll add the caveat that all hard drives will eventually fail and you'll never know what the cause will eventually be but you can take precautions. A quality reliable power supply is essential, along with a decent surge protector that your machine is plugged into. Avoid impacts on the drives and just because a hard drive is "mobile" doesn't mean it will travel well, there are still moving parts inside the drive which can get damaged. Using NAS drives in high use and multi-access scenario's and making backups whenever possible because having a duplicate of your data is invaluable.
@not-hunter, you may understand that (and I appreciate that) but a little misinformation goes a long way, so thought I'd play devils advocate for the benefit of all.
I've not lost a live drive in a looong time (touch wood and all that) and the only drive I ever "lost" was down to my own stupidity of lending a portable drive to my friend to copy some stuff of and eventually getting it back DOA with some lovely clicking sound effects. I've got a stack of 1TB drives that I've swapped out over the years for larger capacity drives and been installing in family PC's and
they've all been working fineI think one died but the PC was retired anyway so I haven't checked it.My main PC currently has 7 "data" (mechanical) drives, all that have been running for over 2 years, some as long as
5...6, when I built the system (i5 2500K at launch). I did get a UPS once because of lost work during a spate of very short power cuts but it only lasted 2 years until one of the battery packs failed and ended up smelling the house out.If you're going to build a fire proof box for your backups, try to lead line it as well so it's EM safe and I'm sure there are other precautions you can take. I've not gone that far yet so haven't put in the research. I would also love a 10TB drive if you have one spare.... 😛 I bought 8x 2TB drives (when they were the commercial sweetspot) about 6 years ago for just under £50 each and although I've replaced a few with 4TB drives my data needs are far exceeding my storage capacity. Damn my data hoarding tendencies!
Rank:If you want to go further buy a cheap used server with a hardware RAID card and NIC. Connect it to your machine and backup till your blue in the face 🙂
Bit rot is really only for drives that aren't connected to power for a long period of time and I've had drives sat on a shelf for over a year with no "apparent" data loss. If you're going to make a habit of it though I've read it's good practice to relocate the data to the drive every once in a while, to get the data read and rewritten so that it's not languishing on the same sector and the drive can error correct.
It wouldn't be "too expensive" to lead line a small box/housing for external drives and whatever other valuables you want to put in there. Just buy rolls of Lead flashing from a builders merchant, it's not incredibly thick but you don't need much, just a lining and you can mould it in to whatever shape you want yourself with a bit of wood.
My mate brought me his external drive, that he had ALL of his photos and photos of his partners daughter on. He'd dropped it off the kitchen counter and tried to catch it by the cable but it bounced and didn't work. I plugged it in and it started grinding and clunking so I turned it off, unplugged it and then shook it gently. I told him that his hard drive shouldn't be making a jangling noise when shaken. I took it out of the caddy and tried what I could but it was done, so I opened up the drive and we looked at the broken platter and bits of platter that had been making the noises. ALWAYS make backups. I made him set up Onedrive, dropbox and Googledrive accounts as well so he could automatically backup all his photos from then on.
My motherboard has 8x onboard SATA connectors and I have one PCi card to give me 10x internal SATA connectors. There's 2x E-SATA connections on the back of the board but having things connected to them gets screwy sometimes.
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