Date: 09/19/05 (Computer Help)    Keywords: web

About three months ago, my hard drive starting ticking and clicking. Then when I started my pc, nothing happened. The hard drive died. I decided to take it out to check out what the make it was. But when I put it back in, it started working. I must have resuscitated it. It's scary now cause I just bought another Seagate. A 160 GB this time. With the plethora of information and files I have (images, music files from my numerous cds - past and present, actually documents and reports that I've created, and of course my website - http://www.ladiorange.com), I'm scared of something like this happening again.

I was reading a post online, "Death of a Hard Drive", about this guy who put his speakers too close to his hard drive.... I started thinking back to 3 months ago... Did I do something like that? I can't remember, tbh. But what are some things I should avoid doing so that my hard drives to get messed up?

What about Seagates? Do you think they are better than Maxtors? I've read online horror stories about Maxtors. My own 20 Gig at home is a Seagate and, other than that one off incident, I think it's pretty reliable and quiet...

What do you guys think?

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