I think my Raptor is dying?

Kaiju · 3 Jun 2007 at 00:58

Performance has degraded over last few months despite defragging, clearing programs and an eventual reformat. Ran HDD Health and I have 1 uncorrectable sector count, 14 UltraDMA CRC Error count and 1 Write Error Rate, whatever that all means. I've been told 0 should be the numbers of a healthy drive.

Anyway, does the fact that I have an unhealthy drive (to what extent, I don't know as everything is still functioning) mean cloning everything on the drive to a new drive is a hazardous procedure?

edit: Just ran WD diagnostics and passed SMART test and extended bad sectors test. Hmmm.

Kaiju · 3 Jun 2007 at 16:23

WJA96 said:
Clone it and RMA it. It's not worth the risk.

Roger Wilko WJA.

Kaiju · 4 Jun 2007 at 15:00

Interesting FatRakoon. Out of curiosity what year does your drive lose it's RMA-ability. Mine is set for 2010, so a few more years yet.

Kaiju · 4 Jun 2007 at 17:02

Strange!

I can't really say i've ever had that problem, but I hope it sorts itself out. Sounds like a 64-bit issue to me though, but i'm usually wrong.

Go to: http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/serialinput.asp?custtype=end&requesttype=warranty&lang=en

Type in your serial number found in the WD Diagnostics Tool or on the hard drive itself. You should get the month and year your drive is under warranty for.