Friday, December 03, 2010

Another dead harddisk

I realized that I have yet another dead harddisk on hand when I came back from Hong Kong, arrived home, checked the home server, and found that the drive which used to host downloaded files was not showing up in Windows Explorer.  I leaned toward the hard disk, and heard clicking sound.  Yep, the classic click of death.

It was not such a huge lost since the harddisk is just 40Gb in size, and stored only the temporary downloading files.  As far as I remember, I wasn't downloading anything anyway, so I am good. 

Just for the safe side, I spent some time disassembling the hard disk and make sure the hard disk can never be used (or re-used) again. 

Guess it's about time to shop for another 1Tb harddisk.