Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes
On 07:34:21 Feb 28, Matt wrote: I am not an authority on the subject at all but... A non-tech solution might be to buy a cheap notebook and use that as your workstation and/or backup device. If power fails or drops the battery will automatically take over and you should not experience any disk problems. Guys, Sorry for the noise. I fixed the problem by buying myself a new SMPS. The SMPS was to blame. I have several other PCs which run just fine. Whose disks never failed. I am feeling stupid but I hope the feeling passes. ;) For the archives in case anyone feels that they are having too many disk crashes the first suspect should always be SMPS. Actually last year I had the same problem. I replaced the SMPS and the mobo as well. And the reason my mobos never failed probably have got to do with the fact that they are all original Intel ones. Thanks for helping me out. A special thanks to Nick Holland for giving me prodigious amount of information/advice in private. Thanks once again. -Girish
Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes
This is a totally non-technical solution, but reading what you wrote I immediately thought: How much of these 56 GB of data is changing? Is the bulk of this data stuff that you *need* to constantly access for the next couple of weeks? If not, then wouldn't it be much safer to just take one of the disks with its copy of the 56 GB of data offline, switch it off, disconnect it, and store it in a safe place? Then do online/Internet delta backups of just the stuff that you're changing, which hopefully will not be in the order of GBs. If your active disk fails, buy a replacement (which may be cheaper than that fancy UPS), restore from the inactive disk plus online delta backups, and lather, rinse, repeat till you're the heck outta there. Sorry if this sounds stupid, it was just a thought that popped into my head. Thanks and regards, --ropers
Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes
Girish Venkatachalam schreef: wd0 lost interrupt. fsbn blah blah blah 234023409-234234.. You get it? The SMPS in the PC is not able to provide the power that these higher capacity disk's stepper motors demand. It never occurred to me so far that disk failures were a natural consequence of my little power games if one can call it that. I am not an authority on the subject at all but... A non-tech solution might be to buy a cheap notebook and use that as your workstation and/or backup device. If power fails or drops the battery will automatically take over and you should not experience any disk problems. Matt
