HDD errors on 3 different drives?

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Seagate Momentus XT 250GB

Corsair Nova 64GB SSD

Samsung F4 This drive is only a few days old?



What is going on i can understand getting errors on 1 drive but 3 different drives?

Ive changed all the drives sata cables with brand new leads.

Are these errors serious or nothing to worry about,im not that familar with HDDs errors.

Im in the process of filling out RMAs with Seagate,Corsair and OCUK just want some info from here frist please guys on these errors ?
 
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The CRC errors on your seagate and corsair drives indicate that comms errors have been detected between the (normally) motherboard sata controller and the disk, so could indicate a problem with either controller, cable or disk.

There's only 1 error on the seagate, so could be a one-off but suggest you keep an eye on this one to see if more errors occur over time. Run the manufacturer's diagnostics if you want to check the disk out, but I don't think this would be grounds for an RMA.

The corsair ssd seems to have thousands of crc errors, which if hdtune is reporting it correctly indicates a bigger problem. I wouldn't be suprised if windows had dropped the disk to pio mode and giving terrible speeds as a result. Does you windows event log show disk-related errors? Again, as this could be a sata port problem it would be best to prove it's the disk at fault before RMAing (e.g. by moving to a known good sata port and seeing if the count keeps increasing).

The warning on the samsung means that a calibration attempt failed, and could be a sign of a disk problem - as the disk is new I'd run samsung's ESTOOL diagnostics (which should say if the disk is RMAable), and keep an eye out for this value increasing.

Hope this helps - the Acer laptop is still working well by the way!
 
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Not sure how to find out what disks these errors relate to mind,the error says HDD 2 so im assuming thats the drive in Sata 2?

Ive since taken out 2 of the disks out the machine which are the Corsair and Seagate.

Im got a feeling these errors are related to the Corsair SSD.

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Time for RMAs on atleast 2 of the drives which i suspect are the Corsair and the Seagate,i dont think the calibartion error of the brand new F4 are showing in the event logs.
 
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Time for RMAs on atleast 2 of the drives which i suspect are the Corsair and the Seagate,i dont think the calibartion error of the brand new F4 are showing in the event logs.

You wouldn't expect to see a calibration retry error in the windows event logs - it's not something that the OS would "see".

I would try to find out what's going on with the corsair crc errors, and least run the manufacturer's diagnostics before RMAing any drives - otherwise you may get them back as 'no fault found' and possibly incur a charge.

Edit: Looks like your ssd probably uses smart param c7 for something other than crc error count: http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=89316, i.e. hdtune is giving a false warning. This doesn't explain the errors in your windows event log though
 
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