I've had many many MANY experiences with HD's blowing up in my face due to one thing or another, but never this badly.

 

Brand new Hard Drive, barely in my computer a week, no problems with it at all. Untill I started to play SWTOR, constant unresponsiveness caused by the client, which eventually lead to my HD crashing alltogether.

 

I was barely, BARELY, able to recover the HD. For those of you, like me, who can't afford to waste £100 because some post-Beta pre-launch tester didn't do his *********** job properly, be warned.

 

FYI: Running on low settings across the board, with shadows turned completely off, Vsync enabled and nothing running in the background. GTS450 1gb HD GFX, 4G Ram, SB 2400 I5 + 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM, 32MB cache.

You have a lightsaber in your sig, you must be cool can we be friends?

I've had many many MANY experiences with HD's blowing up in my face due to one thing or another, but never this badly.

 

Brand new Hard Drive, barely in my computer a week, no problems with it at all. Untill I started to play SWTOR, constant unresponsiveness caused by the client, which eventually lead to my HD crashing alltogether.

 

I was barely, BARELY, able to recover the HD. For those of you, like me, who can't afford to waste £100 because some post-Beta pre-launch tester didn't do his *********** job properly, be warned.

 

FYI: Running on low settings across the board, with shadows turned completely off, Vsync enabled and nothing running in the background. GTS450 1gb HD GFX, 4G Ram, SB 2400 I5 + 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM, 32MB cache.

 

out of a million so far, and you are it? Id say its a hardware issue, or the online dirties infected it. You will go blind you know if you watch too much of that.

I've never heard of software causing a problem with a hard-drive ... I think you just got a defective hard-drive

Sounds like a problem with your HDD, not the game, especially since the HDD you got is new (ergo more likely to be faulty prior to use). Nobody else has had your problem.

No offense dude, but you said that you've had many experiences with hard drives dying.......could it be that it's something that you're doing and not the game?

WARNING: OP blames own problems on others.

I'm speachless.. really, PEBKAC

I wonder what it is you do with HDD's that you got that many experience with them blowing up in your face

No offense dude, but you said that you've had many experiences with hard drives dying.......could it be that it's something that you're doing and not the game?

 

^ this ^ I still to date have yet to fry a HD,

I wonder what it is you do with HDD's that you got that many experience with them blowing up in your face

 

Nitroglycerin cooled rig, no doubt.

WARNING: OP has no clue what he's talking about.

If TOR really did make your HD blow up I would think BioWare would put that in commercials as a badge of pride.

 

TOR - blowing up computers since 2011

ohhhhh hard drive!!! not high def =P

I've had many many MANY experiences with HD's blowing up in my face due to one thing or another, but never this badly.

 

Brand new Hard Drive, barely in my computer a week, no problems with it at all. Untill I started to play SWTOR, constant unresponsiveness caused by the client, which eventually lead to my HD crashing alltogether.

 

I was barely, BARELY, able to recover the HD. For those of you, like me, who can't afford to waste £100 because some post-Beta pre-launch tester didn't do his *********** job properly, be warned.

 

FYI: Running on low settings across the board, with shadows turned completely off, Vsync enabled and nothing running in the background. GTS450 1gb HD GFX, 4G Ram, SB 2400 I5 + 1TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM, 32MB cache.

 

I've never had a HDD blow up on me. You either don't know how to run your hardware or you buy used.

 

Software rarely causes hardware problems. The only time I've heard of softwear doing damage to a HDD is if you get a virus which causes it to repeatedly write to the disk.

I've fried 5 HD's in as many years.

 

What I meant by "Many experiences, but none as bad as this" is that it's always been a physical issue with the drive, another component in my build, or myself. I've never had a HD crash because of Software.

I heard BW was going to fry ppls hard drives that threatened to cancel their pre orders.

You don't really know a whole lot about computers do you?

You don't really know a whole lot about computers do you?

 

Google.

I'm speachless.. really, PEBKAC

 

1D10-T Error? That's what we called em in my day.

Anyone referring to an HDD as an HD is a fail noob tbh.

Brand new Hard Drive, barely in my computer a week, no problems with it at all. Untill I started to play SWTOR, constant unresponsiveness caused by the client, which eventually lead to my HD crashing alltogether.

 

A game will not break your hard drive. If it broke, it was a bad drive.

 

It's ridiculous to think it has anything to do with SW:TOR. If it blew in a week, it was a lemon and would have died anyway. Stop trying to spread false rumors (or trolling, if that's what you're doing).

whats a computer im playing on my xbox5000

WARNING: Sony CD players are unstable. I just installed one in my car and the engine died.

I've fried 5 HD's in as many years.

 

What I meant by "Many experiences, but none as bad as this" is that it's always been a physical issue with the drive, another component in my build, or myself. I've never had a HD crash because of Software.

 

.....then it's a good possibility that the drive itself was faulty if you're positive that it was nothing that you were doing this time....

 

Sorry dude