New found hatred for Western Digital....

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  • ratdude747
    Black Sheep
    • Nov 2008
    • 17136
    • USA
    #121
    Re: New found hatred for Western Digital....

    Originally posted by PCBONEZ
    That's my experience too.
    .
    A drive error doesn't mean the file actually got broke.
    - It only means it failed on the first try at writing the file and drives attempt to write like 5 times before they give up.
    If they give up they mark the sector bad and put the file somewhere else.
    - That's the other reason drives have buffers(cache).
    The file stays in cache [like a BU copy] until a good copy has been successfully written to the disk.
    .
    Not likely to get file corruption unless the file is already done writing and -then- the disk surface goes bad.
    Or, if one of the interface chips [system or drive end] is scrambling data before it gets to the buffer and heads.
    [Bad caps (including small caps) can cause that last one.]
    .
    Or, if so much of the disk has gone bad that there is nowhere good to drop the file (aka the drive is screwed)
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    (Insert witty quote here)

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      • Scenic
        o.O
        • Sep 2007
        • 2642
        • Germany
        #122
        Re: New found hatred for Western Digital....

        by the way.. this is how I finally noticed the Samsung drive I mentioned before had something going horribly wrong...

        I had some mp3's with blips and stuff in it, but this was pretty damn obvious..
        I've used this 40GB Samsung as a dedicated GTA IV drive with multiple copies on it (car modding etc. .. having backups of the game so I don't have to reinstall, which takes forever to do)

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMbrEdsYe1Q

        "Follow the multi colored brick road" .. lol

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          • Shocker
            Banned
            • Dec 2011
            • 635
            #123
            Re: New found hatred for Western Digital....

            I don't like YouTube. If you can (in any way), provide downloadable videos. Don't forget that some countries ban YouTube.

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              • Scenic
                o.O
                • Sep 2007
                • 2642
                • Germany
                #124
                Re: New found hatred for Western Digital....

                It's an old video (2009) and I don't have it locally anymore. I could have downloaded it from YT and reupload it somewhere, but it would be missing the annotations in the video.

                So I just grabbed a screen recorder and captured the already crappy-quality video (encoder problems before I uploaded it) again.. lol

                Looks like sh*t but oh well..
                http://dl.dropbox.com/u/47192959/GTA_IV-1.mp4
                x264 video. Plays fine in VLC.

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                  • Eric55
                    New Member
                    • Jun 2012
                    • 1
                    • Kenya
                    #125
                    Re: New found hatred for Western Digital....

                    Originally posted by Scenic
                    ^ i only use that decoration crap for storing my HDDs in a drawer.. you know.. piling them up with those.. shipping a HDD with that as a "protection"? no way..

                    edit: talking about those thingys..
                    Hey, I use Electronic packaging from http://www.walterdrake.com to protect my HDD's

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