I've read that hard drives have software on their motherboard that periodically checks data integrity because of the density. It may just be self repairing/reinforcing the data on the drive.
They will even move the data to a different area if the sector is compromised.
Question About External Hard Drive
Re: Question About External Hard Drive
I think you may be right. Yesterday, I was backing some stuff up to the external and I thought it would settle down after a few minutes and was concerned when it didn't. Today, I plugged it back in and it did settle down like it normally does, so it was probably just scanning/fixing/whatever. For the longest time, I was a bit paranoid about backing all my stuff up to data DVDs so I'd have a hard copy if anything happened to the drive, but since that's not really feasable anymore, now I'm doubly paranoid because, as I said, I have a lot of stuff that I don't want to lose, primarily because some of it took me years to find (yes, literally) and I may never be able to find it again. I've thought about compressing stuff into zip/rar archives so it would take up less space and be easier to back up, but I don't know anything about how to do that in terms of how much data could be in each archive, the best archive format to use, etc.
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Re: Question About External Hard Drive
http://www.7-zip.org/Retrodude wrote:I think you may be right. Yesterday, I was backing some stuff up to the external and I thought it would settle down after a few minutes and was concerned when it didn't. Today, I plugged it back in and it did settle down like it normally does, so it was probably just scanning/fixing/whatever. For the longest time, I was a bit paranoid about backing all my stuff up to data DVDs so I'd have a hard copy if anything happened to the drive, but since that's not really feasable anymore, now I'm doubly paranoid because, as I said, I have a lot of stuff that I don't want to lose, primarily because some of it took me years to find (yes, literally) and I may never be able to find it again. I've thought about compressing stuff into zip/rar archives so it would take up less space and be easier to back up, but I don't know anything about how to do that in terms of how much data could be in each archive, the best archive format to use, etc.
it's not a bad idea to invest in a spindle of DVDs and back up some stuff archived at Ultra or whatever. here's an informative thread.
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