Last night after finally rebooting from whatever last weeks Windows Update was my 3.5 year old Samsung F1 HD103UJ seemingly crapped out. Windows would take maybe 10+ minutes to boot despite the fact that the only thing loading from that drive was Steam. Once I unplugged the drive Windows booted from my SSD faster that I had ever seen, the Windows logo doesn't even have time to come together in the boot screen.
So now I had the drive plugged in over USB (even this would slow down Explorer) and tried to run chkdsk but that got stuck on stage 4. I then power cycled the drive and it couldn't even spin up and was beeping every second or so. I figured it had snuffed it and ordered a 3TB Seagate Barracuda because 1TB was becoming too small anyway.
This morning I decided to try the drive again since it had cooled down and it spun up fine, chkdsk ran fine (and fixed some errors), and now the drive is working fine. SMART shows no problems and I can't actually find anything wrong with the drive. Any ideas what is actually wrong with it and is it still worth using? If it's a heat issue then there's some cooler systems it could serve in.
So now I had the drive plugged in over USB (even this would slow down Explorer) and tried to run chkdsk but that got stuck on stage 4. I then power cycled the drive and it couldn't even spin up and was beeping every second or so. I figured it had snuffed it and ordered a 3TB Seagate Barracuda because 1TB was becoming too small anyway.
This morning I decided to try the drive again since it had cooled down and it spun up fine, chkdsk ran fine (and fixed some errors), and now the drive is working fine. SMART shows no problems and I can't actually find anything wrong with the drive. Any ideas what is actually wrong with it and is it still worth using? If it's a heat issue then there's some cooler systems it could serve in.
