What kind of things increase data corruption...?

[stix_kua]

What kind of things increase the chances of data corruption?

I was just curios becuase my last WD drive is starting to go flaky......:(

[NDD]

Heat, o/cing (o/ced PCI bus), bad people :)

[Philip1952]

Bad IDE cable

Bad memory

[BipolarBill]

Too much red meat in the diet. Supplement with garlic. :D

(In the case of a WD drive, incorrect jumpering will do it too.)

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Heat is the biggie, especially if your runnign severla drives, get soem sort of HDD cooler. If your gonna be overclockign make sure you get a board with decent PCI dividers or even better something liek the Nforce 2 which locks the PCI bus

--Jakk:t

[stix_kua]

What about old age?

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Thats an obvious one, but if you look after em they should last an age. Im running a 5 year old Seagate Medalist 4.3gb in a machine thats on for about 12 hours per day on average and its not given any bother yet

--Jakk:t

[$1500-P4 gamer]

"What about old age?"

The old way (well not that old) was to not let pci get over 40mhz thats were data corruption and non booting happens. ;) So you do the math with yer divider to ensure you dont go over with that fsb. Like this 133mhz is 1/4 divider to pci. Thats 33.25mhz. Now if you go the safe 10mhz fsb increase its....143/4 for 35.75mhz. 20mhz is usually safest higher setting. That gives you 38.25 pretty much as high as you can go without pushing pci and agp bus too far. I run 20mhz over on my P4 for 2 years with no hdd problems ever.;) :t

[Bigjakkstaffa]

With mobo's allowing for the locking of the PCI bus now though, it isnt as much of an issue today. Hurrah :)

--Jakk:t

[AllGamer]

contact re-SET buttons and on-off switch

power outtage

too many Simultaneous writes from multiple programs

:t

[stix_kua]

I guess the old age has taken out that drive the becasue ther were never any heat problems or over-over-clocking

[strat1]

Raid 0 setup with my Virtual Drives and OS on the Raid O is fun and leads to Corrupt data often! .

[Ankerson]

Lots of good reasons here sofar.:D

And all true.:)

Let me add:

Viruses

The registry being too big.

Not defragging the HD often enough.

Too much data on the drive...over 75% full.

[stix_kua]

Originally posted by Ankerson
Too much data on the drive...over 75% full.

This drive I'm talking about it about 97% full...only 122 MB free.:eek:

[BipolarBill]

Someone needs a bigger hard drive. :eek:

[gjimene2]

:eek: 122mb left? Man, you do need a bigger drive. I have 200gigs from three drives and I can't even fill more than 60!

[stix_kua]

Originally posted by BipolarBill
Someone needs a bigger hard drive. :eek:

Well it is only a 4 gig hard drive....:D

My 40 Gig drive is now 86% full.....

I guess then I do need a bigger hard drive.....

[stix_kua]

Originally posted by gjimene2
:eek: 122mb left? Man, you do need a bigger drive. I have 200gigs from three drives and I can't even fill more than 60!

Then you should hand one over to me...:D ;) :t