Is the Hard Drive faulty?

Freedom · 2 Apr 2009 at 23:38

I got a WD WD2500YS 250gb, I ran HD Tune and I get speeds at a maximum of 50mb/sec with the speeds test, the hard drive also fails on the Health Test, on the Spin up time. I got a Samsung F1 1Tb drive and it gets speeds off around 120mb/sec.

Is the drive faulty?

goujon945 · 2 Apr 2009 at 23:44

The speed difference is to be expected. The 1TB is a faster drive but I would be worried about the drive failing a health check. Is it locking up, clicking etc?

KingZeddy · 3 Apr 2009 at 00:06

apin up time failure points to a motor or bearing failure...........back up your files !

J.B · 3 Apr 2009 at 00:26

Doesnt sound too promising mate.

Freedom · 3 Apr 2009 at 12:25

I downloaded the Western Digital Drive test tools, It reports a Smart Failure and it never seems to be able to complete a quick test, Should I RMA this drive now before it fails, or will they not accept it?

braveheart · 3 Apr 2009 at 15:38

either faulty or your mobo support SATA-II so you may remove the jumper pin at the back which is SATA-150 as default (remove it then it enable as SATA-II) check it again...