30-05-2018, 07:54 AM
John, that's how it should work. I might try with AVG switched off. Or use the Linux method. Either way it needs some time when I'm not needing the machine for anything else.
I may have been lucky but I've only ever had one HDD failure, way back int he late 1980s. Some of my HDDs are well over 5 years old and have seen a lot of use, albeit at workstation rather than server levels. Did you go for an SSD? It's a revelation having one as your system disk. A lot faster. As for reliability I've had that recent crash but I suspect it wasn't the fault of the drive. My main approach to reliability is to assume that kit is fundamentally unreliable and hence have good back/recovery regimes. Even in the absence of a cloned system drive I still was fully recovered in a few hours. It helps that I have a good fast internet connection and that the instal "disks" for many of my important programs are actually folders on my D drive. My data (D) drive (or for those with a single drive, data partition) gets incremental backups very day and a clone every week. With a rotating set of 4 HDDs so I can roll back several weeks if necessary.
https://www.prosofteng.com/blog/how-long...ives-last/
Just hitting the old HDD with a hammer isn't really enough. The platter could well survice intact. Best to open it up, take out the platter and bend it in half. The spooks might be able to get something back but it's well beyond anyone else.
I may have been lucky but I've only ever had one HDD failure, way back int he late 1980s. Some of my HDDs are well over 5 years old and have seen a lot of use, albeit at workstation rather than server levels. Did you go for an SSD? It's a revelation having one as your system disk. A lot faster. As for reliability I've had that recent crash but I suspect it wasn't the fault of the drive. My main approach to reliability is to assume that kit is fundamentally unreliable and hence have good back/recovery regimes. Even in the absence of a cloned system drive I still was fully recovered in a few hours. It helps that I have a good fast internet connection and that the instal "disks" for many of my important programs are actually folders on my D drive. My data (D) drive (or for those with a single drive, data partition) gets incremental backups very day and a clone every week. With a rotating set of 4 HDDs so I can roll back several weeks if necessary.
https://www.prosofteng.com/blog/how-long...ives-last/
Just hitting the old HDD with a hammer isn't really enough. The platter could well survice intact. Best to open it up, take out the platter and bend it in half. The spooks might be able to get something back but it's well beyond anyone else.
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