I bought a Seagate Barracuda from an online shop and had a few problems with it (nothing to do with OC at all). The problems SEEM to have gone away, but what happened really made me nervous and I'm thinking of sending it back anyway? I wonder what you guys would do?
When I first hooked it up and formatted it, the drive was very slow and unresponsive and took ages just to format. Then I tried copying 1.5 gig of test data to it and it took 10+ minutes (would normally be a few seconds)! Then I tried copying 20 gig and it estimated 3+ hours!
Then I tried accessing the files I had copied onto it and some of them didn't open. Other files, I tried deleting, and they wouldn't delete.
Soon after, my system ground to a halt (including system sounds stuttering and Windows recommending I turn off Aero to speed up performance) - this has never happened to my computer before! Is this a sign of a faulty disk drive?
Then I tried shutting down, but it hung. I eventually got it to shut down, so I booted with the drive disconnected, to test, and everything was 100% fine as normal. Then I tried hooking up the drive again and this time it made a lot of horrible noise, and the BIOS didn't recognise the drive.
I unplugged, let everything cool down, reconnected and this time the drive seemed to work OK.
The drive STILL seems to be working OK. So maybe the problems were just "teething problems"? But what happened has really made me nervous. I don't like the idea of sending stuff back that "seems" to be working, but I wonder what you would do?
When I first hooked it up and formatted it, the drive was very slow and unresponsive and took ages just to format. Then I tried copying 1.5 gig of test data to it and it took 10+ minutes (would normally be a few seconds)! Then I tried copying 20 gig and it estimated 3+ hours!
Then I tried accessing the files I had copied onto it and some of them didn't open. Other files, I tried deleting, and they wouldn't delete.
Soon after, my system ground to a halt (including system sounds stuttering and Windows recommending I turn off Aero to speed up performance) - this has never happened to my computer before! Is this a sign of a faulty disk drive?
Then I tried shutting down, but it hung. I eventually got it to shut down, so I booted with the drive disconnected, to test, and everything was 100% fine as normal. Then I tried hooking up the drive again and this time it made a lot of horrible noise, and the BIOS didn't recognise the drive.
I unplugged, let everything cool down, reconnected and this time the drive seemed to work OK.
The drive STILL seems to be working OK. So maybe the problems were just "teething problems"? But what happened has really made me nervous. I don't like the idea of sending stuff back that "seems" to be working, but I wonder what you would do?