so last night, 4 hours of backing up 800+ gig of stuff from my pc to my external hard drive i formatted my main internal drive so it gives it the anuall clean up.
reinstalled windows, plugged in my external and yup it started, i could see the files and then POW

the hard drive died ........ at first i thought it was just the cable, so i tried another cable and nothing.

i took the drive out of the enclosure and plugged it into my hotswap bay and nothing, i plugged it into the inside of my comp and nothing.

the drive is dead, no power at all is starting it.

after 28 hours of trying nothing happend,

so i did the unthinkable ...... i opened the drive and what i saw made me cry ....... the reader heads had scored the platter surface and black soot like stuff was covering the inside of the drive.

games
movies
tv shows
cartoons
pictures
music
emulators
custom game clients

custom game server software

my encrypted file of email addys / passwords ALL GONE FOREVER, the amount of music i had was tipping to 1/2 a terrabyte and took me 12 years to gather everything.

and what happend next really REALLY made me cry, the internal WD drives died one after the other in the space of 6 hours, so 4 x 1600gig of WD drives gone, a 1TB external died, 4 x 250gig drives died,and 1 x 500gig idrive died

so lets add this up

4 x 160 = 640
4 x 250 = 1000
1 x 1000 = 1000
1 x 500 = 500

1000 + 1000 + 640 + 500 = 3140gig

over THREE TB of hard drives ALL DEAD ALL WD ALL DIED ON THE SAME NIGHT

FUCK YOU WD FUCK YOU AND THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON.

thankfully the 1tb samsung drive i have is still going strong, mind you its brand new lol