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Originally Posted by yashom  I had a ST3500820AS-Seagate sata with firmware version SD25.
I downloaded Diskeeper.ProPremier.2008_12.0.758.0 and kept it on "auto-everything" (I-fast,auto-defrag etc).
The computers is powered 15 hrs continuously. Usually downloading & seeding.
After a week the drive crashes.. i mean the computer does not boots with it connected to it. Same results on different computers.
When diskeeper was on..the orange light was always bright. Not going off even once.
I had not opened my cabinet. I had not moved my computer. I woke up one morning to find my hard drive failed. 
So did my harddrive crash coz diskeeper kept "spinning" it too much for too long  ?
or its just a co-incidence.  |
Seagate drives have been in the news recently for a slew of failures; yours was probably a victim too. A couple of my Seagate 7200.11 500GB drives in another secondary system failed within 2 weeks of purchase, and very light usage, last year. It was a basic windows machine without much additional software or even Diskeeper on it.
Under normal circumstances, the HDD is always spinning once it's powered on, regardless of what program you are running. Diskeeper has nothing to do with it.
I have been using various versions of Diskeeper on SATA drives for a long time (>2 years) now, and currently using Diskeeper 2009 pro, on auto everything, and it's never caused a single problem. All my 4 drives are running in top shape, thanks to Diskeeper eliminating fragmentation.
BTW, are you using the legal version of Diskeeper?
If you torrent a lot, you should pre-allocate the space for the downloaded files; it will reduce fragmentation. And d/ling and seeding off the same drive is not such a good idea. Move the files to a different drive and seed.