Hi: I have a Toshiba 250gig external laptop hard drive with a 3 year warrantee if that's any indication of how long one should last..
On Tue,, 02 Sep 2008 11:07:48 -0400, you wrote: >Hi Nimer, > >That's not good! I think that a hard drive whether internal or >external should have a longer life than 1-1/2 or 2 years. > >You did not mention the size of your failed Hitachi hard drive. I do >think that the larger hard drives have the tendency to fail sooner >than smaller ones. > >As I have mentioned, my Western Digital internal hard drive was 500 >GB. and it failed within two years. I was told that the master file >table which I believe keeps track of all the files on the hard drive >was corrupted. Since I had many, many MP3 files on that old hard >drive, I(I don't remember how many) it was probably too many for the >master file table to keep up with it. > >I was told that the solution with large single hard drives is to >split the hard drives into two drives. This could be done before any >data is stored on a new hard drive using a function in Window to >split the hard drive (I think it has to do with formatting). If data >is already stored on the hard drive, then you need something like >partition magic to split the hard drive. > >The advantage of splitting a hard drive (so I was told) is that it >will create two master file tables which should handles the large >number of files spread over the two areas. > >I have two external hard drives and one internal hard drive and all >are 500 GB. each. So, the three are split to prevent failure. Each >one has its own drive letter and each is split about 250 GB. each. > >I hope that this information is useful for you. > >Lennie > >At 06:08 PM 9/1/2008, you wrote: >>Actually, it was an internal, and it was about a year and a half. >>Thanks >>Nimer J >> >>Lennie Rinaldi wrote: >> > Hi Nimer, >> > >> > I also have a Hitachi 500 GB internal hard drive. I use this one for >> > all my MP3 music and recordings. So far, that one is working just fine. >> > >> > I had a bad experience with my previous internal hard drive that died >> > on me after 2 years. That one was a Western Digital and also was 500 GB. >> > >> > I use the Hitachi external hard drive which is also 500 GB. to back >> > up anything that I saved on the internal hard drive. So far, that one >> > has been working fine. Both drives are 5 months old. How old was your >> > Hitachi external hard drive when it died on you? >> > >> > Lennie >> > >> > At 11:55 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote: >> > >> >> By the way, how do you like hitachi? I just had one die on me. >> >> thanks >> >> Nimer J >> >> >> >> Lennie Rinaldi wrote: >> >> >> >>> Victor, >> >>> >> >>> I think that most new external hard drives come already in NTFS >> >>> format. I recently bought a Hitachi external hard drive and it was >> >>> formatted that way. >> >>> >> >>> One of my older external hard drive which I purchased a couple of >> >>> years ago was FAT32 and had to be reformatted to NTFS. >> >>> >> >>> Just thought that you might want to know. >> >>> >> >>> Lennie >> >>> >> >>> At 06:12 AM 9/1/2008, you wrote: >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>> Hi Patricia, >> >>>> >> >>>> You've got it, that's exactly what it should say, which is >> very uncommon. >> >>>> >> >>>> Any drive I've ever gotten has always been formatted as FAT or >> >>>> >> >> FAT32 so they >> >> >> >>>> will plug into a Windows 98 machine, but it's a nice surprise that yours >> >>>> isn't. >> >>>> >> >>>> Now all you have to do is sit back and enjoy the drive. 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