Seagate HDDs keep dying...

leoncc · 27 Jan 2008 at 20:31

well i purchased 2 seagate 500gig 32mb cache hdds this week, they were both fine in my IcyDock hdd caddy for a few hours, and then i get a internal continous beep and one of them dies... restart check in bios and it sees the hdd but showing it as 0gig... now the other has done the same thing about 24hrs after... i have no idea what the problem is!? well annoyed!

any ideas anyone? surely i can't be this unlucky something must be wrong? though my 2 raptors and maxtor 160gig hdds are fine... so far...

any help appreciated...

fobose · 27 Jan 2008 at 20:33

Have you tried connecting them to your motherboard directly rather than using a external caddie?

leoncc · 27 Jan 2008 at 20:40

Yes, it is still showing them as 0gig

I have even tried them in a different PC as well, same problems... :mad:

leoncc · 27 Jan 2008 at 20:49

Could it be because they are SATA-II and my other HDDs are SATA-I?

The raid post screen it shows them all as SATA-I

leoncc · 27 Jan 2008 at 20:54

And I can't see them as overheating... theres a fan running on the back of them as well

ubern00b · 27 Jan 2008 at 22:29

They should show as SATA1 if you havent set the jumper on the drive. Seagate drives ship from the factory with the jumper set to limit the drive to SATA1 for compatability reasons.

ByteJuggler · 27 Jan 2008 at 23:47

leoncc said:
And I can't see them as overheating... theres a fan running on the back of them as well

What does the temp sensor say or can you not get a temperature reading?

leoncc · 28 Jan 2008 at 13:29

They were all running at 41c :confused:

Hopefully a bad batch, *** are sending out CityLink tomorrow to come collect them for a full refund, think im going to go with some WDAAKS... WD have never let me down :rolleyes:

Sareth · 28 Jan 2008 at 13:38

Are your other hdd's in the same caddy ? Two drives failing with the same symptoms like that so quickly would have me worried about it.

(I am worried actually, hence the question, I think I have a hdd that would probably be from the same batch).

leoncc · 28 Jan 2008 at 14:12

Yeah they were both in the same caddy, with 2 raptors and 1 maxtor, these 3 have had no problems at all, all points to these Seagates being faulty!

The fan on the back of the IcyDock caddy is crap, I loved the hotswap of drives and they look great but I have decided to take them all out and use the normal bays with 120mm fans in front of them from now on.

After running a diagnosis with SpinRite I did find quite a few errors on these Seagates as well :mad:

rpstewart · 28 Jan 2008 at 14:31

Can I suggest you remove the competitor references as per the rules before someone decides to break your account.

Sareth · 28 Jan 2008 at 14:37

Hmm, I'll maybe pull this one I got out of my NAS and stick it in my PC for a more thorough check before I put any more data on it.

P.s. if I were you I'd heed rpstewart's advice and remove the offending word.

leoncc · 28 Jan 2008 at 14:53

Done, sorry