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Hi all,
Has anyone using sandy bridge recently had any HDD failures?
Since using SB I have now had 2 HDD (of my 3 HDD's) fail on me.
Originally they were both running on the SATA II ports:
- 1TB Samsung spinpoint F3.
- OCZ Agility 30GB SSD.
Both were less than a year old (Samsung - 8months, OCZ 6months).
The Agility died whilst plugged into the SATA II's about 3 weeks ago (prior to Intel releasing info on the problem and had been running on my SB setup maybe 2 weeks at most).
The F3 has failed around 20 mins ago. I noticed that it was taking longer than usual to access when it was in the SATA II port. I switched it to the SATA III ports around the time intel announced the news...
SInce then it has had the same long access times, however about 20mins ago when I turned on my PC I found that it was making mechanical (death) noises. Those who know the noise know what I mean - the sound that indicates its trashed.
Its not found in bios, not found in windows.
Remove drive, place in caddy, reboot and plug caddy in - not found there either although drive spins up without making any bad noises...
Freezer time methinks... All my work, course work, dvds and file backups are on there...
soooo... I'm shafted...
Has anyone using sandy bridge recently had any HDD failures?
Since using SB I have now had 2 HDD (of my 3 HDD's) fail on me.
Originally they were both running on the SATA II ports:
- 1TB Samsung spinpoint F3.
- OCZ Agility 30GB SSD.
Both were less than a year old (Samsung - 8months, OCZ 6months).
The Agility died whilst plugged into the SATA II's about 3 weeks ago (prior to Intel releasing info on the problem and had been running on my SB setup maybe 2 weeks at most).
The F3 has failed around 20 mins ago. I noticed that it was taking longer than usual to access when it was in the SATA II port. I switched it to the SATA III ports around the time intel announced the news...
SInce then it has had the same long access times, however about 20mins ago when I turned on my PC I found that it was making mechanical (death) noises. Those who know the noise know what I mean - the sound that indicates its trashed.
Its not found in bios, not found in windows.
Remove drive, place in caddy, reboot and plug caddy in - not found there either although drive spins up without making any bad noises...
Freezer time methinks... All my work, course work, dvds and file backups are on there...
soooo... I'm shafted...