Is my Raptor dead?

spib · 14 Apr 2006 at 09:20

Hey,

My system has been acting a little wierd this past few days and I think my raptor is to blame. I ran HDTach against it and got the following results

3.2 MB/S is obviously very, very wrong. I rand the WD diagnostics which reports a SMART failure (Raw Read Error Rate) but the scan itself passes.

Would this drive be eligible for an RMA? It's still in warranty

spib · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:25

I was concerned the SATA cable could be faulty so I've just replaced that and I'm still having problems. Anyone got any ideas? I'm getting desperate

Vegeta · 14 Apr 2006 at 12:50

Behemoth · 14 Apr 2006 at 22:21

spib said:
I was concerned the SATA cable could be faulty so I've just replaced that and I'm still having problems. Anyone got any ideas? I'm getting desperate

Looks like it's poorly mate, send it back to WD and get a replacmenet drive me thinks.

Explicit · 14 Apr 2006 at 23:22

SATA drivers maybe? Worth a shot

Mr Mister · 17 Apr 2006 at 14:24

47% cpu usage is pretty nuts.

trojan698 · 17 Apr 2006 at 16:54

especially for 3mb/s, imo its dead.

Combat squirrel · 17 Apr 2006 at 23:57

Dead, deceased, departed, lifeless, finished, obsolete, over, ended, done with, exhausted

yeah reckon its kaputt

spib · 18 Apr 2006 at 07:58

Well, it's an easter miracle - my raptor has risen from the dead.

Turns out that the reason it was running at 3MB/s was the POS Asrock mobo i ws using temporarily since my old IC7 blew up. I put a new ASUS board in yesterday and we're back up to 55-60MB/s. Still getting the SMART error though...