Hard Drive Issue

[jdobbs]

If you selected X264/LAVF and have a source that included PINFO information -- then DirectshowSource has to be used rather than LAVF (since the AddBorders filter is associated with AVISYNTH). I'll do some testing with X264/LAVF and PINFO and make sure that it is doing it properly.Had some issues on my video-processing yesterday (a hard drive is crapping out), so I wasn't able to test it. It takes a long time to recover data from a 3TB drive that is having read errors.

Hopefully I will be able to do some testing later today.

[omegaman7]

Had some issues on my video-processing yesterday (a hard drive is crapping out), so I wasn't able to test it. It takes a long time to recover data from a 3TB drive that is having read errors.

Hopefully I will be able to do some testing later today.

Ugh! No doubt. I've had to deal 500gb drives with read errors. 3Tb is NO DOUBT worse lol. I'm strongly considering getting a couple 6TB drives in February. Get a little redundancy going on lol. My current drives are bordering on long in the tooth ;)

[jdobbs]

Ugh! No doubt. I've had to deal 500gb drives with read errors. 3Tb is NO DOUBT worse lol. I'm strongly considering getting a couple 6TB drives in February. Get a little redundancy going on lol. My current drives are bordering on long in the tooth ;) I'm replacing this one with a 4TB. I noticed there were 6TB drives out there, but they were still a little pricey for me (I could get two 4TB drives for about the same price).

[omegaman7]

Yeah, I'm hopeful that February, the price will drop at least a little ;) I guess we'll see lol.

[soneca]

Already prefer two drives of 2TB, 4TB is a lot of loss in the event of a crash. :eek:

[omegaman7]

Already prefer two drives of 2TB, 4TB is a lot of loss in the event of a crash. :eek:

I have a 4TB, she's pretty solid :p Knock on wood lol

[thegame]

Can you guys share some links to these trusty hard drives please?

Thanks

[Lathe]

Can you guys share some links to these trusty hard drives please?

Thanks

Well, I have 7 external HDDs from my older 2 - 2TB ones where I have all my lossless digital music mirrored on both, and 2 - 2TB drives where I have all of my rare films mirrored on both, and I have 3 more for various backups and such were I have at least 3 copies of anything important, one of which is a 3TB drive.

All of them are Seagates, with the exception of one drive. I know they went through a shaky time there for a while, but they have continued running very well. So, I would recommend any of the newer big Seagate drives; I have bought almost all of mine on Amazon.com, which is great especially if you have a Prime membership.

I hope that helps...

[colinhunt]

Can you guys share some links to these trusty hard drives please?
Thanks
Apologies for off-topic - but do NOT buy 3TB Seagates. I bought 32 of them less than 2 years ago, and today only 8 are still working. I lost more than 10 in under 6 months. I only trust the clearly more expensive Hitachi drives these days.
/off-topic

[jdobbs]

I've had trouble with Seagate drives some time back, although mine were all internal. I had several of them go bad within a few months. I switched to Western Digital My Book external drives. The 3TB external drive I just replaced was the first of these that I've had problems with -- and it is at least 3 years old (maybe more). I tested it and all the questionable sectors were in one spot near the end of the drive -- so I partitioned it to 2TB and reinstalled it a a non-critical (working folder) drive.

Just to be fair, though, I'm pretty rough on drives. I run them 24/7 and they are constantly being used.

But colinhunt is right, this is getting a little off topic, so I'm moving it to a thread of its own.

[omegaman7]

I run the heck out of my drives too :) They're RARELY shut down. ALL western digital, except my OCZ Vertex solid state. I have never personally had a WD fail, that was younger than 10yrs old :S It's worth noting, that I don't trust external enclosures, to properly cool them. So the external ran drives that I do have, only run while needed. My 4Tb for instance, is connected to a USB 3.0 dock. It only runs when I'm processing 3D titles. And pretty soon, it'll run more. I just bought a LG passive 3D monitor! :D

My tower is a HAF 932. I believe it to cool my drives quite nicely :p I recently sold the only Seagate on ebay. I've only ever owned two. And both, were exhibiting SMART issues within a short time. Suffice to say, it's pretty obvious where my loyalties are lol.

[QBhd]

I have a 10.5 year old 120 GB SATA-150 drive with 40,000+ hours of power-on time... it still works. I also have a four 5 year old 500GB Caviar Black drives with 43,000+ hours (Mostly RAID0)... ALL WD... never had one fail either. I do have One other drive (Hitachi 2TB), but that is rarely used (long term storage in an external enclose that only gets turned on when needed)... I also have two 2TB Greens and one 3TB Green. I too have a HAF 932, and I am sure it is a factor in this type of longevity.

QB

[omegaman7]

I have a 10.5 year old 120 GB SATA-150 drive with 40,000+ hours of power-on time... it still works. I also have a four 5 year old 500GB Caviar Black drives with 43,000+ hours (Mostly RAID0)... ALL WD... never had one fail either. I do have One other drive (Hitachi 2TB), but that is rarely used (long term storage in an external enclose that only gets turned on when needed)... I also have two 2TB Greens and one 3TB Green. I too have a HAF 932, and I am sure it is a factor in this type of longevity.

QB

A fellow HAF owner! :D Yeah, they really are agreeable. GPU runs nicely, CPU does well(Triple push/pull configured), and I generally average no more than 35C on all hard drives. The seagate ran considerably warmer :( I've got 2- 3TB WD's, a single 4TB, a 2TB (for my picture/music files), and a 1TB WD1001FALS. The 1TB is a busy little bugger. I believe it's pushing well over 30k hours.

Oh wow! Just checked! I think the 1TB is closer to 43K hours :S Might wanna consider backing up that data LOL!

[Capsbackup]

I am a fan of hard drive docks too. I have two Vantec's, one esata/usb 2.0 and one esata/usb 3.0. I use Hitachi and Seagate 3.5" internal drives. The older ones are 1 TB, as that was the better price point back then, and the newer ones are 2 TB. I back up all my Blu-ray rips to these.
This method is the best for me for storage and access, as it takes up much less space than external drives or enclosures. I have a list of all movies on each drive.
I don't use these drives all the time, so life expectancy should be good too! :cool:
One day someone in my family will have a pretty good movie library, or plenty of storage if that's their choice. :p :eek: ;)

[soneca]

I run the heck out of my drives too :) They're RARELY shut down. ALL western digital, except my OCZ Vertex solid state. I have never personally had a WD fail, that was younger than 10yrs old :S It's worth noting, that I don't trust external enclosures, to properly cool them. So the external ran drives that I do have, only run while needed. My 4Tb for instance, is connected to a USB 3.0 dock. It only runs when I'm processing 3D titles. And pretty soon, it'll run more. I just bought a LG passive 3D monitor! :D

My tower is a HAF 932. I believe it to cool my drives quite nicely :p I recently sold the only Seagate on ebay. I've only ever owned two. And both, were exhibiting SMART issues within a short time. Suffice to say, it's pretty obvious where my loyalties are lol.
My two towers are Cooler Master Haf 932, excellent staff, extremely airy and quiet. Low temperatures are critical to the durability of hard drives. ;)