Goodbye TB

A long time ago (2004?) I bought a LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 1 TB. At that time it was quite a huge hard drive (by size and capacity), the biggest single disks were about 250 GB (given the size I supposed that the LaCie was made of four 250 GB disks in some RAID-0 or JBOD array).

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So five years later (last week) it died. But even now, losing 1 TB of data is a bit disappointing. Hopefully there was not much important data on it (I store important data on a RAID-5 array or on a TimeMachined part of my Mac).

So, what to do with a dead disk? Dismantle it, of course.

First, unscrew the back panel:

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Push the content / pull the case:

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Unscrew everything else:

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So yes, there were four Maxtor MaXLine Plus II 250 GB hard disks inside. I already tested two of them, one is dead, the other one is fine. I hope only one is dead, so I will be able to reuse 750 GB of the original 1 TB.

In the overall I think it’s the third hard drive dying this year. Last year it was two motherboards. Why is electronic hardware so unreliable lately? (and I try to do my best to take care of it, but it looks like it’s not enough, hardware is still failing at some point)

I still have somewhere an old Victor computer from the 80s (I can’t find it on the internet, it’s not a Victor 9000), and it’s still working (at least last time I plugged it in).

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