Sandy Bridge & HDD's

lollyhayes

lollyhayes

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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...
 
just a footnote - we all know that hard drives fail. I'm not saying SB is to blame, just asking you guys if your have had anything similar...
 
I've been having an odd issue with my C300 on my P67 board. It is not, and never had been plugged into one of the affected ports but it seems to appear dead on a cold boot, however if you leave the machine running for a few mins and then do a soft-reboot it seems to wake up and work fine.

It may be worth trying this on your dead disks, as I'd certainly be interested to see if this issue affects anyone else. Simply plug the dead disk in to a 6gb/s port, boot into bios and leave it there for 5 minutes. Do a save changes and reset, then see if the drive re-appears.
 
I have 2x OCZ Vertex 2e 50GB drives which I had in the SATA II slots and the raid kept failing to come up properly on cold boot. So I switched them to the SATA III slots and the same happened. One of the drives kept reporting as a sandforce and with only half it's size.

MikeHiow said:
I've been having an odd issue with my C300 on my P67 board. It is not, and never had been plugged into one of the affected ports but it seems to appear dead on a cold boot, however if you leave the machine running for a few mins and then do a soft-reboot it seems to wake up and work fine.
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Mike Try this... worked for me... got the idea from an Asus technical person :)

I found that enabling wake from PCIe in the Bios set to enabled solved the issue (well after setting and switching off a few days ago I have not had the problem again)

So the point of the post is that no I have not had a failure due to the SATA II ports although at one point I did think I had.
 
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thanks for the info simon. I can confirm that the SSD drive was dead, I sent it to OCZ and they tested and replaced it with a new one.
As for the HDD - well we will know soon when a certain competitor gets back to me...
At the moment its in the freezer waiting for its replacement tomorrow to get the data off it...
 
SimonMaltby said:
Mike Try this... worked for me... got the idea from an Asus technical person :)

I found that enabling wake from PCIe in the Bios set to enabled solved the issue (well after setting and switching off a few days ago I have not had the problem again)

So the point of the post is that no I have not had a failure due to the SATA II ports although at one point I did think I had.
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Aha! That seems to have done the trick.

Was there any explanation as to why this works? I presume it just powers up the PCI-E bus before anything else?
 
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