Hard drive on the way out? - 01/13/16 09:30 AM
One of my four internal hard drives "failed" yesterday. In Bay 2, I have a Seagate 3 Tb drive with three partitions. The first two are 100 Gb partitions with system backups. The third partition is my main storage for all files, including music, photos and my Microsoft User Data folder. So, It's VERY important. I do a daily backup to the drive in Bay 3, and weekly backups to a couple external drives.
On booting, the first indication something was wrong was there was no information in my Outlook window. I opened a Finder window to see what was wrong and none of the three partitions on the Bay 2 drive showed. Disk Utility did not see the drive, nor did DiskWarrior.
I replaced the drive in Bay 2 with a new drive and shove the "failed" drive into a dock. I was surprised to see the first two system backup partitions mount on the Desktop, but not the Data partition. In Disk Utility, the drive was now visible, but the Data partition was greyed out. I clicked the mount button and Data appeared. I ran Repair Disk and DiskWarrior successfully, then put the drive back into Bay 2.
It has been performing as normal for 24 hours now.
Finally, the questions: what happened? The drive is 18 months old, should I trust it? It does not make any odd noises - runs normally.
The only unusual activity is that I have been upgrading Suitcase Fusion on three different systems and doing a lot of system boot changes via the alt key on startup.
Thanks for reading this far.
On booting, the first indication something was wrong was there was no information in my Outlook window. I opened a Finder window to see what was wrong and none of the three partitions on the Bay 2 drive showed. Disk Utility did not see the drive, nor did DiskWarrior.
I replaced the drive in Bay 2 with a new drive and shove the "failed" drive into a dock. I was surprised to see the first two system backup partitions mount on the Desktop, but not the Data partition. In Disk Utility, the drive was now visible, but the Data partition was greyed out. I clicked the mount button and Data appeared. I ran Repair Disk and DiskWarrior successfully, then put the drive back into Bay 2.
It has been performing as normal for 24 hours now.
Finally, the questions: what happened? The drive is 18 months old, should I trust it? It does not make any odd noises - runs normally.
The only unusual activity is that I have been upgrading Suitcase Fusion on three different systems and doing a lot of system boot changes via the alt key on startup.
Thanks for reading this far.