I’ve had issues with my desktop’s hard drive since I built it two years ago. Every once in a while it would just stop responding to requests necessitating a reboot and – much worse – corrupting random pieces of the filesystem. It was a Seagate, my first Seagate ever, and after seeing how many people had problems with it, I finally gave in and bought a new hard drive – a WD Caviar, which is what I’d been using for almost a decade before I got the Seagate.
It’s delightfully silent, and things were just fine.. until I turned on the computer this morning.
It stopped responding.
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So it’s NOT the hard drive, it’s the motherboard/SATA controller/whatever.
But things are not all bad. In the process of attempting to turn off my computer to do a hard reboot (since using the ‘reset’ button doesn’t let it boot when this happens), I didn’t hold the power button long enough, and.. wait, it went into suspend? Even though the hard drive was going “DURRRRR I’M DEAD”? I bring it back out of suspend, and everything’s fine.
WHAT.
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So for TWO YEARS I have been shutting off my computer, when – for some God-only-knows-why reason – I could have just suspended it and brought it back out? And I’ve been corrupting data for no reason? Wonderful.
In any case I think I might be due for a new mobo. It’s not all that bad, though. I only got this one because it had a PATA port for my old 80GB backup drive, but now that I have two as-far-as-I-can-tell perfectly functional 320GB SATA 3Gb/s drives, I don’t need a PATA port anymore. Joy?