2. If you dont want bad sectors, never move your PC while it is on.
Kahit na 2 inches lang ang iuurong. Never NEVER. Ito ang palagay kong
exception to the rule ?Never say Never?. Shutdown. Shutoff. Move the PC.
Then turn it on.
3. Do not make "patung-patong" your HDD, one on top of the other. Make sure they are in proper packaging (anti-static bags and clamshells or styro boxes) if you have to store them;
4. Only hold or handle your HDDs by their edges, never touch the printed circuit boards or electronic parts.
5. If you have to put the HDD down on, lay it down on an anti-static bag
6. When mounting HDDs use the proper screws (coarse thread and
shorter screw) as opposed to the screws for CDROM drives and Floppy
Drives which are fine thread, and the case screws which are coarse
thread but longer;
7. Use as many screws to mount your HDD as possible, usually 4.
Some techs will use only 3, I have seen HDDs mounted using only 1
screw. Why? the 4 screws will ensure proper heat transfer
from the HDD to the case;
8. Tighten but not overtighten the screws. Your screws are steel, the HDD case is aluminum, you are in danger or damaging the thread in your HDD if you overtighten;
9. You may mount the HDD in any way (level, un-level, upwards,
downwards, vertical) whatever it takes to make it fit your casing.
There will be no problem performance-wise.
But, mind you, if in the future say 2 years, you have to unmount and
reinstall the HDD in a configuration different to what it has been
accustomed to, the HDD might die on you just like that. Example ?
vertically mounted for 2 years, then i-reinstall mo horizontally.
Maaring pag-on mo pa lang ng PC, dedo na ang HDD. It happened to me 3X
already. Perfectly working HDD, then remounted in a different attitude,
patay. Most probably the bearings have gotten used to the old mounting
and seize up when mounted differently.
10. Keep your HDDs cool. Blow fans on them, use coolers. At the very least make sure your casing is properly ventilated. Heat shortens the life of HDDs.
11. Cables? Make sure your cables are good and connected correctly.
I have had bad cables (may gasgas or may kagat kagat ng daga o ipis)
kill HDDs one after the other. Lungkot. Akala ko sira hard disk yun
pala cable, kinabitan ko ng ibang HDD, patay din.
12. Power Supply? Make sure your power supply is up to snuff
(ibig sabihin maganda ang boltahe). This is where most HDDs fail after
serving you for a long time. Low 12-volt rails kill HDD motors. Bad 5V
kill HDD electronics.
13. Power connectors. Make sure your power connectors (those
white plugs with yellow, black and red wires) fit well. Loose connectors
provide bad power. After running your PC for a while, say 15-30
minutes, touch your connectors, if they are hot, then there?s something
loose, replace with a spare connector and label the bad connector. If
you do system checkups, it is good to take note of heat discoloration on
power connectors and replace those bad ones;
14. Brown outs do not just kill lights, they kill HDDs. Brown
outs are sometimes accompanied by bad power spikes and deadly voltage
fluctuations. If you can afford a good UPS, buy one.
15. When transferring HDDs between systems don?t just take one and install into another and fire it up just like that.
Please make sure you get into BIOS first and make sure that your new
system is set to ?auto?. If your old system detected the HDD using
manual or non-standard parameters, then duplicate the parameters first
in BIOS in the new system before booting up. You might scramble all your
data if your new system tries to read the HDD using wrong parameters.
16. If you use your PC a lot, defrag your partitions once a month. If not, a defrag once every 3 months will be fine.
For those of you who think that defragmention speeds up your HDDs
death, may I give a small explanation. If your partition is quite
defragmented, your HDD will be doing a lot of unnecessary work by
default, its head going back and forth trying to get to the different
parts of your files scattered all over your disk. Besides with a
defragmented disk, you will have a more responsive PC.
17. Install enough RAM. You dont want your HDD swapping files back and forth from system RAM and the swap file. Lots of work for the HDD, slow PC.
18. Partition your HDD. At least 2 partitions. One partition for
your Operating System. The other one for your data. This way if your OS
gets corrupted (and it happens) you don?t have to perform PC acrobatics
to get your data back. You can reformat your OS partition and be assured
that your data is safe in a separate partition.
credits to Computer Open House
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