ok, as some might recall..... i posted here a few weeks ago about my 15 day old 250gig Maxtor drive giving up in a BIG way.... much like the way the old IBM drives used to die
well with the RMA and refund, i decided to buy a 150gig raptor instead, as being a server HDD id expect better reliability
the first thing that hit me was the fact it felt almost totaly the same speed as a normal 7200rpm drive... well after a week, ive found it has a "smart failure" Seek Error rate is at -1 instead of +60. The drive seems to get stuck seeking when in windows, and you can randomly hear it seeking when im idle as well.
Running GRC's Spinright on the drive showed no errors at all, and fixed the smart data back to +60.... but as soon as i got in windows again it was back to -1.... So what is going on here?!?! is the drive dying or have i messed up somewhere?
well with the RMA and refund, i decided to buy a 150gig raptor instead, as being a server HDD id expect better reliability
the first thing that hit me was the fact it felt almost totaly the same speed as a normal 7200rpm drive... well after a week, ive found it has a "smart failure" Seek Error rate is at -1 instead of +60. The drive seems to get stuck seeking when in windows, and you can randomly hear it seeking when im idle as well.
Running GRC's Spinright on the drive showed no errors at all, and fixed the smart data back to +60.... but as soon as i got in windows again it was back to -1.... So what is going on here?!?! is the drive dying or have i messed up somewhere?
