WD GREEN SOS!

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My WD Green 1TB of 3 months has just stopped being seen by my OS windows 7 on my HTPC


It spins up cause I can hear it but then after about 30 seconds it spins down again.

Any idea if I can get the 200 DVD rips off it?:eek:

Would swapping a PCB from another drive work?

Is it worth it?


Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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This happened to 2 of my seagate drives a while back.

You could hear them spin then about 5/10 seconds later they just turned off both drives were dead as a dodo. Tried replacing the PCB with another one which was exactly the same firmware but nothing so I sent them back.

I phoned seagate up to ask what was wrong with the drives and all they said it looks like they had some sort of power failure which just killed both drives.
 
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Oh dear, I had a similar thing happen to my drive back in March!

My 1TB Western Digital Green Power WD10EADS - Dead within Three Months!

The replacement has been working fine since . . .

I got my RMA replacement and fitted it to my WHS.

I took another 1TB green out to back up and saw eactly this
wdcwd10eadsgreen1tb17.jpg


Looks like burning and tarnish on the PCB in exactly the same place.:eek:

Its going straight back to WD even though its working correctly.

I am demanding a WD black 1TB in return:mad:
 
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oh dear - i was waiting for one of these to get back in stock - 2Tb version. Think i'll go for a sseagate!

My head is spinning I have 3TB of data over about 7 disks some external.

I have finally got to the stage were I can begin copying to the homes server.

Losing this 1TB drive has been a nightmare...

never mind backing up this one that is about to die on me.

I'm not even risking putting it back in the WHS..its straight off to WD..I'll take a pick of the PCB area thats affected.:(:eek:
 
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Ye easy it sucks but that's the problem with bigger dives - you have more data to loose.
I've started backing all of my stuff up now as i recently had a scare with my 1.5Tb HDD which wasnt pretty but luckily it was just corrupt partition table which i fixed!

When i get a 2Tb HDD i will also be getting a 2TB Ext.HD to back it up to. Means spending twice the money on storage (£330 for 2Tb Int and 2Tb Ext) but it gives peace of mind should it all go wrong
 
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Use RAID 1 or backup with a program (or just manually copy stuff)

If you use 2 drives in RAID 0 and a drive dies, do you lose all your stuff?
 
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