What's up with this Raptor?

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fornowagain

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I presume that this Raptor is a bit sick. Its been reformatted and any caching tried on/of, all the same. Any ideas, RMA time?





Its not the controller, the other Satas are quite happy on the same port/cable.
 
I'd say it is more than a bit poorly, I can't remember seeing any drives getting 1.4MB/s unless they are running in PIO mode and even then it is still pretty low. Maybe run the testing tools from Western Digital (not sure what they are called) as normally they can confirm the drive is faulty and often give a code to supply to the manufacturer so they know you have tested it. :)
 
That drive is very obviously having major problems reading - the very fact that you're still using it successfully is rather astonishing imo. The poor drive is probably doing its level best to still read and reallocate/move bad sectors (of which there are probably an increasing number as time goes on) but this is hitting its performance hard. (Needless to say, get everything off there ASAP and then RMA the drive. Running a full diagnostic as already suggested is also a very good idea, but the outcome/diagnosis is already pretty certain.)
 
ByteJuggler said:
That drive is very obviously having major problems reading - the very fact that you're still using it successfully is rather astonishing imo. The poor drive is probably doing its level best to still read and reallocate/move bad sectors (of which there are probably an increasing number as time goes on) but this is hitting its performance hard. (Needless to say, get everything off there ASAP and then RMA the drive. Running a full diagnostic as already suggested is also a very good idea, but the outcome/diagnosis is already pretty certain.)
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First thing I did was run the WD Diagnostics program. That's the thing I don't understand, first the performance 'feels' fine, all the games are on it at the moment as I don't trust it for the OS. No corrupted files that I can see. But the WD program reports the tests as OK, only reports the SMART error bit. Obviously I don't want to send it off on RMA if its something I'm overlooking. I'd say its knackered based on the transfer rates and something did set the SMART bit. Just looking for conformation really.



 
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RMA it - and you get the added benefit that WD are currently shipping 16MB 74Gb models out as RMA replacements for anything under 150GB (I RMA'd 3 36GB 8Mb Cache Raptors and got 3 74Gb 16MB cache drives back :D )
 
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