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Time for a new HDD?

Aquinus

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OverClocker12 said:
I never had a hard drive failure yet. Usually the mb or cpu gives out first. At least you got to back your files already.
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Really? This is my last HDD failure.
WD Hard Drive - Bad motor - YouTube

Clearly an animal or something got stuck in there. :roll:
Believe it or not, it did start to spin up normally again but a long SMART test gave me a particular LBA that it was failing on so I sent it back with a print out of the SMART failure. Got the drive back in 6 business days from the day I sent it out.
 
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Aquinus said:
Really? This is my last HDD failure.
WD Hard Drive - Bad motor - YouTube

Clearly an animal or something got stuck in there. :roll:
Believe it or not, it did start to spin up normally again but a long SMART test gave me a particular LBA that it was failing on so I sent it back with a print out of the SMART failure. Got the drive back in 6 business days from the day I sent it out.
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That sound was hilarious :laugh:

Anyway, I bought the Seagate drive I was talking about - it's working superb.

I plugged the Samsung drive back to my controller a few days ago and ran benchmarks again - with same results.
Today I was checking the Seagate for SMART errors again and ran the benchmark on the Samsung again with this result:


WTF is going on here, the seeks are almost normal now (a few spikes here and there but nothing close as it previously was), compared to the last benchmark run:
 
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RCoon said:
Download Hiren's Boot CD, and run HDAT, it will check and repair all bad sectors on a HDD, but be prepared for it to take a while. Spinpoint F3's are good drives, if HDAT and Seatools will run and possibly fix em, give it a go.
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Good advice. HDAT didn;t work for me though, I used Vivard and HDD regenerator to fix my bad sectors. I had a bunch and the drive was totally dead.

Since fixing it, i have been using it for about 3 or 4 months with no problems.
 
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Ok so after a few days of waiting if the drive will totally fail....the drive decided to work normal :laugh:

There are no new read errors and the performance is back as it was when I first bought it.
I'm really clueless of what was going on, I'm 100% sure it wasn't the cable since I'm running the new drive plugged into it with no issues.
It's not the southbridge either because I was still getting read errors when I plugged the drive on my controller :shadedshu
 
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