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Posted on 6/12/25 at 7:57 pm to Joshjrn
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Posted on 6/12/25 at 8:59 pm to deeprig9
Probably. It's easy if you get it. But I understand not wanting to screw with it. It's just money
Posted on 6/12/25 at 9:58 pm to deeprig9
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ST3500414CS
So spinning rust. If I’m throwing a dart, a jolt to the chassis either knocked a connector loose (either between the psu and the drive or the drive and the motherboard) or the drive has failed, either randomly or, again, due to physical shock.
If you’re making it into bios/uefi, that means your other components are functioning at least at a base level.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:06 pm to Joshjrn
I went ahead and cracked it open, that 500gb drive doesn't seem to be doing a damn thing. The connectors to it are all very well seated. Taking it to geek squad Saturday morning in Athens. I know how to hot swap hard drives from the front of a server in a data center but once tools have to come out, I'll pay someone who has done it a thousand times. It's also dusty as a motherfricker in there, maybe they'll give it a blow job.
Posted on 6/12/25 at 10:10 pm to deeprig9
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I went ahead and cracked it open, that 500gb drive doesn't seem to be doing a damn thing. The connectors to it are all very well seated. Taking it to geek squad Saturday morning in Athens. I know how to hot swap hard drives from the front of a server in a data center but once tools have to come out, I'll pay someone who has done it a thousand times. It's also dusty as a motherfricker in there, maybe they'll give it a blow job.
What’s the exact sku of the motherboard? Unless you pay for a service membership, I’d rather you pay for a new drive than for some kid to tell you your drive is dead.
And I very much doubt they are going to really dust the pc. That’s a very messy, very outside, job
Posted on 6/13/25 at 8:03 am to deeprig9
you can get new drives for $50 or less. Is the hope just for data recovery?
Posted on 6/13/25 at 4:01 pm to deeprig9
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I went ahead and cracked it open, that 500gb drive doesn't seem to be doing a damn thing.
If you do not hear it or feel it spinning, then its dead. More than likely a stuck seek arm. I have done this before and it work. Slap it with your hand on the top; sometimes a bit of percussive maintenance will free the joint. But if it does spin up, copy every off it before shutting down the computer.
Posted on 6/14/25 at 6:25 am to deeprig9
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Maid
Pics?
Posted on 6/14/25 at 4:44 pm to deeprig9
Update-
A family member who knows this stuff and actually built this box for himself before upgrading and giving it to my son was kind enough to drive an hour to my house today and troubleshoot. Yes, the drive shat the bed. But a new drive was installed, windows loaded, and after a million updates, it's working normally. But during the process, the "good" drive shite the bed, and bios and windows can find it anymore, so he took it back home with him to continue troubleshooting. The initial drive that went bad was OS and some other shite, but the big drive is where my kid has all his actual media, projects, recordings, movies, and graphic design work. Whether he gets this all up and running again and recoverable notwithstanding, I'm now looking for an at home NAS RAID1. Is there a tech board consensus on a good one out of the box? Seeking minimum of 1TB in a RAID1 configuration. I know enough about RAIDs to know what they are and how they work at a high level, and that's it.
A family member who knows this stuff and actually built this box for himself before upgrading and giving it to my son was kind enough to drive an hour to my house today and troubleshoot. Yes, the drive shat the bed. But a new drive was installed, windows loaded, and after a million updates, it's working normally. But during the process, the "good" drive shite the bed, and bios and windows can find it anymore, so he took it back home with him to continue troubleshooting. The initial drive that went bad was OS and some other shite, but the big drive is where my kid has all his actual media, projects, recordings, movies, and graphic design work. Whether he gets this all up and running again and recoverable notwithstanding, I'm now looking for an at home NAS RAID1. Is there a tech board consensus on a good one out of the box? Seeking minimum of 1TB in a RAID1 configuration. I know enough about RAIDs to know what they are and how they work at a high level, and that's it.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 8:36 am to deeprig9
In an era of blazing vast internet speeds, are you sure you want to go RAID1 instead of just using cloud backup?
Posted on 6/15/25 at 9:15 am to Joshjrn
I use both but I have a Raid 5 NAS.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 9:59 am to deeprig9
I would not recommend building a RAID using the motherboard controller. I did that for years and regretted it about every two years. I have two Synology five bay units, as well as a synology router. The DSM software is very pretty and easy to use. Beware that if you buy one of the most recent (last 90 days) models, they apparently try to force you to buy synology drives to receive support.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 11:17 am to Chromdome35
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I use both but I have a Raid 5 NAS.
And you likely have a use for it, but the average home user is rarely, if ever, going to have a use for speeds beyond what a decent NVME drive can provide.
Posted on 6/15/25 at 11:50 am to deeprig9
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I'm now looking for an at home NAS RAID1. Is there a tech board consensus on a good one out of the box? Seeking minimum of 1TB in a RAID1 configuration
In the era of Copilot, there is no need to get a fancy branded NAS system anymore. Just get an old $40-$50 mini PC on eBay and a couple $50 1TB SATA SSDs and have Copilot walk you through installing OMV(easy) or TrueNAS(less easy) operating system. I’d just make sure the processor supports AES instructions which most all within the last ten years will. Intel quicksync is a bonus if you ever decide to make it a media server one day.
Posted on 6/20/25 at 8:48 pm to deeprig9
If you can afford a maid, you can afford to take it to a shop
Posted on 6/21/25 at 5:59 pm to deeprig9
I would hope, for all this trouble, that you're at least banging the maid.
It's only fair. And if you are, you should just tell the wife. I'm sure she'd fire her then.
Modern problems sometimes require old-age solutions. You're welcome.
It's only fair. And if you are, you should just tell the wife. I'm sure she'd fire her then.
Modern problems sometimes require old-age solutions. You're welcome.
Posted on 6/24/25 at 2:03 pm to KCRoyalBlue
Years ago the thing to try with a stuck spinning HD was to put it in the freezer for a few hours. I guess it was the bag of rice of its day!
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