R.I.P 2x Only 4 Hours old 300GB HDD

hi_tech_guy_18 · 27 Jan 2006 at 20:30

Two Brand New Maxtor DiamondMax 300GB 6L300R0 ATA-133 16MBs
Both Died within Hours of getting them!

Both now are Dead – Bios refuses to pick them up and one of the HDD is having a fit

Put my old HDDs back in and no Problems (oddy Both Maxtor)

Tested both of them on my other PC with spinright 6 it could not see them or even recover them

Spec 1: Main PC
AMD 64 FX-55 - 1 GB Ram - Motherboard Gigabyte GA-K8NXP

Spec 2: Workbench PC
AMD K7 XP +2200 - 512MB - Nforce 2 Ultra

Put forward an RMA Request to OC
Fingers Crossed I Hope my 2 HDD are not Part of a Bulk Bad batch

hi_tech_guy_18 · 27 Jan 2006 at 22:10

"is having a fit" At Post the Bios searches for the HDD (bios is set to auto detect HDD)

At that moment you hear the Hard drive Scratch around a load of times (Something it didnt do in the first 40 mins) sadly the bios cant detect it and gives up however the drive is still going nuts

I know for a fact the IDE-133 Cable is fine due I have my Working 200GB Maxtor Connected to it at the mo

hi_tech_guy_18 · 28 Jan 2006 at 00:32

Its happened before now I did work in a shop and use to build PCs and we got a bad batch of HDDs now and again

Voltage rails are fine sitting at 12.3Volts

If there was a hardware fault it would have taken the whole system down.
And also my old HDD 200GB when I put it back in

hi_tech_guy_18 · 28 Jan 2006 at 01:16

I will do if it happens again However my last 2x 200GB Maxtors have been rock solid stable.

hi_tech_guy_18 · 28 Jan 2006 at 01:52

The Drives serial No's are Very close
and the Drives are dead Not even the Bios will pick them up

2 PC Confirm it since I'm going over to a friends house on sunday I will test them both with his PC since I'm working on his anyway

hi_tech_guy_18 · 12 Feb 2006 at 05:20

Good News everyone:
I RMA the Hard Drives back to OC (They got there Monday)
Within 3 days 2x New Maxtor DiamondMax 300GB 6L300R0 ATA-133 16MBs where shipped out (arrived Thursday)

Must Thank OC for a Rapid Replacements was at lest expecting 7 days unto 6 weeks

More Good News: They both have been running longer than 48 Hours (Touch wood) with no problems yet

One thing I did notice on both drives is the Control Chip / Memory / Firmware Bios chip was of a different company (commpared to the Control Chip / Memory / Firmware Bios chip of the too the two drives that failed)