
What is the Hard Drive? That’s an easy one. The Hard Drive is the part of a device (be it PC, Mac, Android, IPhone, Tablet, IPad) where all of your important data is stored. Today data is everything. Desktop, documents, downloads, music, pictures and videos to name a few examples.
What we don’t realise is how much we rely on these machines and this data until it’s gone.
And yes, Hard Drives do die.
How do we know when a Hard Drive is dying?
Some signs of a dying Hard Drive.
- Frequent but irregular crashes, especially while booting up Windows®
- Frequent and cryptic error messages while performing typical activities like moving files
- Folder and file names that have been scrambled and changed
- Disappearing files and folders
- Really long wait times to access folders and files
- Hard disk is silent for a long period after you request data by opening a file or folder
- Garbled output from open files or printing
- Hard drive grinds away constantly because of noisy bearings