My Maxtor Hard Drive Just Caught Fire!

Dracos writes "Dell batteries you say catch fire? Well don't worry about that Dell battery, look inside your PC case at your HDD, mine just went up in smoke and flames..." Could be worse. It could be ball lightning. I hear there's a lot of that going around inside servers these days.

Comments

What?

[eebra82]

This is totally cool. The world's first Hard Drive Burner?

Re:Overblown Drama

[xtracto]

Well, it surely caught fire now haha

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Missing the "It's funny. Laugh".

[ettlz]

From TFA:

when I hit the power button flames..LITERALLY shot out of the bottom of the HDD, I was like F**K!!

when I clicked on the link flames..LITERALLY came out of my head and into this text area. I was like, F**K, Dude?!

BUT FLAMES SHOOTING OUT OF IT?!?!?!?! Damn, first dell batteries now Hard Drives... What's next?!?

OMGWTFSATAHDD!!!!11! Tubular!!!!1111one

DIGG IT!!!!

Ughnnn...

Could be an interesting tech support call

[nizo]

Customer: My new drive is smokin!

Tech Support: We are pleased that you are happy with the speed of your new drive.

Customer: No, I mean smoke is pouring outta my harddrive man! (Screams of panic and someone saying "get the fire extinguisher!" in the background)

Re:Many people say maxtor hdd is bad

[Professr3]

My condolences for your untimely death... I'm sure it was a beautiful funeral?

Re:Attack of the soldering iron & needle nose

[LouisZepher]

"MOVE OUT OF YOUR PARENTS BASEMENT!"

Because the rent is cheap, and the attic is too hot.

Use SMART to avoid such occurances

[cortana]

I'm pretty sure if he paid attention to his drive's SMART data then he would have been able to replace the drive before it burst in to flames.

# smartctl -Asmartctl version 5.36 [i686-pc-linux-gnu] Copyright (C) 2002-6 Bruce Allen
Home page is http://smartmontools.sourceforge.net/

=== START OF READ SMART DATA SECTION ===
SMART Attributes Data Structure revision number: 16
Vendor Specific SMART Attributes with Thresholds:
ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED  WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
  3 Spin_Up_Time            0x0027   192   190   063    Pre-fail  Always       -
  4 Start_Stop_Count        0x0032   253   253   000    Old_age   Always       -
  5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   253   253   063    Pre-fail  Always       -
  6 Read_Channel_Margin     0x0001   253   253   100    Pre-fail  Offline      -
  7 Seek_Error_Rate         0x000a   253   252   000    Old_age   Always       -
  8 Seek_Time_Performance   0x0027   241   225   187    Pre-fail  Always       -
  9 Spontaneous_Combustion  0x002b   232   232   020    Pre-fail  Always       -
10 Spin_Retry_Count        0x002b   239   232   157    Pre-fail  Always       -

and so on

Re:Use SMART to avoid such occurances

[200_success]

You don't need SMART. If he had looked in /var/log/messages just before the incident, he would have seen

/dev/hda on fire

Re:Overblown Drama

[ThatsNotFunny]

Well done... you used "Overblown" and "reproductive organs" in the same thread without giggling. :D

Re:Overblown Drama

[bladesjester]

Seeing everyone in the lab where I used to work jump and hit the floor when a cap blew loud enough to sound like a gunshot was just amusing.

Ball lightning

[Kohath]

Ball lightning - the most painful kind of lightning.

Re:Smoke from the webserver

[R_Ramjet]

If you're going to post a comment that looks like Haiku, at least make it a Haiku....

If his hard drive flames
I'll bet the slashdot effect
toasts his web server

Re:Blown Out of Proportion

[Anonymous Coward]

nothing but a insulator between the two negative and positive charges

Well, what else are you going to put between them -- a chaperone?

Read the warning label

[rspress]

You should have read the warning label. It think they still print it in big letters on the box. MAXTOR.

Re:Smoke from the webserver

[Iamthefallen]

To mess with your head this haiku is written on just a single line

Re:Overblown Drama

[Columcille]

did you see all the adverts on that page?

Firefox + adblock...
There were ads on that page?

Now you're screwed.....

[Namlak]

All electronics operate with an internal supply of magic smoke,

If you let the smoke out, it stops working!

Re:Overblown Drama

[spun]

Hehe, I nearly fell off a ladder while pulling Cat5 through a drop ceiling once, due to an exploding Linux CD. Seems a co-worker wanted to give it a try and bought one of those Linux books with the CD in the back (remember when a Linux distro came on one CD?) You know the books I mean, the nice soft cover books that weigh like five pounds and pretty much gaurantee the CD is going to be at least a little stressed. He had one of those older super-fast CD drives that could rev up to dangerous velocities. Poor guy put in the CD, the drive spun up, and the CD just flew apart, shredding his CD drive and shooting an inch wide wedge of CD out the front, six inches from his nuts, and across the room where it buried itself half an inch in the wall. Sounded like a gunshot. I nearly fell, turned it into a controlled leap and ran into his office. Poor guy was white faced as he showed me just how close he'd come to an involuntary vasectomy.