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Hi guys,
I have in my possession a HD103UJ hard disk and for some reason I'm getting a lot of CRC errors when extracting rars, installing games and so on.
These errors do not seem to appear on another system.
I have formatted my PC 2 times now, ran MEMTEST for 10 hours and found nothing, ran ESTOOL to test the drives and it passed every test.
I don't know what could be wrong!
 
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Is the drive making any loud clicking. Just asking, because looking thru Newegg's reviews by customer who purchased the drives, there seems to be a higher than usual failure rate for them.
 
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the drive could be faulty, or the power supply could be feeding it bad voltage.

hell, have you tried replacing the SATA cable yet?
 
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Everything is okay according to DiskCheckup, I attached the detailed log.
The drive doesn't seem to make any loud clicking, I mean you can hear it when its working but I don't think its unusual, and yes I tried to switch SATA cables but that didn't help.
Could a temperature of 31c be too much? In the other PC, it was 26C, is that significant?
 

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skinnyq said:
Everything is okay according to DiskCheckup, I attached the detailed log.
The drive doesn't seem to make any loud clicking, I mean you can hear it when its working but I don't think its unusual, and yes I tried to switch SATA cables but that didn't help.
Could a temperature of 31c be too much? In the other PC, it was 26C, is that significant?
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Your temps are great. 26c is perfect. I see some Write error counts but that's not uncommon. It doesn't seem to be the drive at fault.

Have you ran the manufactures testing utilities on it?

I dont see any firmware updates for it that may have addressed any issues. Here is the utilities page.
http://www.samsung.com/baltic/consu...ia_cd=05043000&model_cd=HD103UJ&menu=download

As far as RAR CRC errors, that doesnt necessarily mean a bad harddrive. Test your RAM and verify the RAR file size after you download it.
 
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I get CRC errors from too high of a CPU clock when I do benching runs with PC mark, I believe the registers in use occasionally bomb out.
 
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mmm, if the drive works fine in another pC - its obviously the PC at fault and not the drive.
 
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Mussels said:
mmm, if the drive works fine in another pC - its obviously the PC at fault and not the drive.
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yeah but if its not the RAM, which I tested using MEMTEST for 10 hours, what else could it be?
 
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skinnyq said:
yeah but if its not the RAM, which I tested using MEMTEST for 10 hours, what else could it be?
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sata controller, north/southbridge... theres lots of things.
 
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skinnyq said:
can I test for any of it?
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not really. you can try it in another PC, and if it works there you can pretty much narrow it down to the motherboard or PSU.
 
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skinnyq said:
Hi guys,
I have in my possession a HD103UJ hard disk and for some reason I'm getting a lot of CRC errors when extracting rars, installing games and so on.
These errors do not seem to appear on another system.
I have formatted my PC 2 times now, ran MEMTEST for 10 hours and found nothing, ran ESTOOL to test the drives and it passed every test.
I don't know what could be wrong!
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I did have a similar problem on one of my PC. On Other system, the same installation package did not produce any crc error. On a specific system with ASUS motherboard, the crc error was persistent. So I went to ASUS website, downloaded the BIOS and the utility for writing the BIOS and upgraded my system. I never had another crc error with that machine again.

Warning! This is a very dangerous procedure. If the upgrading is incomplete, the BIOS eprom will become useless and you need a special eprom writing-device to rectify the complication. So you do also need an UPS.

Hope this is educational.
 
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I have already updated my bios.
Downloading large iso's - corrupt.
Downloading large number of rar's/zip's - CRC.
Downloading games from Steam - works...
Moving files from different drives - works...
what the hell...
 
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