Hard Drive Failure

[QueOnda]

Hello,

I have a hard drive which gotten too hot but didn't die (i got to it before it did) because my fan died. I am able to use software to get most of the files but don't see any sage recorded files. Is there a way to check which files were recorded to a specific drive? I need to find out if there was anything (maybe there wasn't.

Thanks for the school'n.

[Brent]

You can use the web interface to search for recorded shows. In the details it shows the location on the network.

[QueOnda]

Thanks. Couldn't find anything. I guess nothing was ever recorded on that drive. Thanks for the help.

[autoboy]

How hot did it get? Sounds like it still works. Most of my drives don't even have fans. In fact, just about every retail computer doesn't have a fan on the drive. It is just an overclocker's myth perpetuated on the internet by naive people who figure that cold is better when in fact, drives are designed to run warm, not cold and google proved in a massive test that anything less than 55C and higher than 30 is perfectly fine and drives that run at 25C are twice as likely to fail as one at 50C.

[QueOnda]

Autoboy,

It was an external case with a fan. The fan went out and the case was extremely hot to the touch. I almost burned myself.

Before I found it was over-heating, I was actually trying to play video, but couldn't find it. Then I was looking for other videos on that same hard drive....nada.

That lead to the discovery. I'm not sure how most of the files disappeared. Maybe some bad sectors or something. I was able to recover most of the files. I need to see if the hard drive still has a manufacturers warranty.