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Munchables

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I need help on this ASAP, my computers making some kind of clicking noise, its constant, soon after I turn it on, and every time it happens, the thing crashes and a blue screen pops up, some kind of hardware problem. Also I have this light thingy thats flashes red a blue, it's suddenly stopped flashing blue now, and it's all red. I'd appreciate any help, I need some advice before my computer is completely ****ed.

I opened it up, and the noise seems to come from the hard drive, and its way hotter than usual.
 
haslo

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Clicking sounds like fans indeed. Take a vacuum cleaner, clean everything from dust inside your case, and make sure nothing interferes with any coolers.
 
dub

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Hmm... the last time I had clicking sounds coming from my PC was just before my HD packed up. :(
Doesn't sound good.
 
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. I had to reformat the thing because of this!!! Now I'm pissed. How much should a nice new HDD cost?
 
ambershee

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Yeah, but it's probably something like a cheap, **** Samsung that's going to go corrupt on your arse. Do research, buy brand names with good reviews. It'll do you a favour in the long run.
 
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Crowze said:
Nowt wrong with Samsungs :p. Nothing wrong with Seagate, WD, Hitachi or Maxtor (being rebranded Seagates anyway) either :).
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Samsungs have a tendency to corrupt very easily. Dell as an example, love shoving them out because they're cheap. I've seen two fail at work. The results are more expensive than buying a decent drive in the first place.
 
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Yeah, your hard drive is on the way out. If you live in the USA, Newegg.com is selling 750 GB SATA drives for about $130.

If you're using IDE, you'll probably have to pay a bit more for smaller capacity.

If you're UK or EU, best of luck finding something. :p
 
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ambershee said:
Samsungs have a tendency to corrupt very easily. Dell as an example, love shoving them out because they're cheap. I've seen two fail at work. The results are more expensive than buying a decent drive in the first place.
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Not heard of many problems myself... what kind of age are we taking? I'm well aware of the issues with the old Maxtors, and cringe when I think about IBM DeathStars, but I was under the impression that the big manufacturers had sorted their reliability issues these days.
 
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ambershee said:
Samsungs have a tendency to corrupt very easily. Dell as an example, love shoving them out because they're cheap. I've seen two fail at work. The results are more expensive than buying a decent drive in the first place.
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ALL harddrives are unstable.

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By 3 years you have a 25% fail rate.

That study was done by Google based on 100,000 harddrives from 5400RPM up to 7200RPM they had on all their servers over the last several years.

It gets so bad now that harddrives rely on ECC... many consumer-grade harddrives make several hundred errors in... I think it's a minute.
 
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Kyllian

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Crowze said:
Nowt wrong with Samsungs :p. Nothing wrong with Seagate, WD, Hitachi or Maxtor (being rebranded Seagates anyway) either :).
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You couldn't pay me to use a WD
Maxtors(pre-Seagate) were king shiz tho. Trying to remember where my old 40GB went. It lived for around 7 years without a single error/crash/etc
 
Renegade Retard

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Kyllian said:
You couldn't pay me to use a WD
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:confused:

I've had the same WD hard drive for 5 years now, and still going strong.

...and it's 80 GB and my only drive. I don't know why you guys need something like 750 GB unless you're downloading a whole lot of p0rn.

On topic...

Munchables - Hard drives are relatively cheap, and one brand is as good as another and as likely to fail as another. If I were you, I'd take the size of your current drive, multiply it by 1.5. So, if you had an 80 GB drive, I'd look for a 120 GB drive or close to it. Then I'd go to sites like newegg.com or zipzoomfly.com and research their drives in that size. You should be able to narrow it down to a handful of drives, and then you can read the reviews on those sites and pick which one you're most comfortable with.
 
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