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Phaelax
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Posted: 1st Mar 2007 22:08
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Some already know that I had a Seagate 200gb sata drive go bad on me. Since Seagate's tools says its working perfectly fine, and windows tells me its unformatted(which its not) I checked up some other things. SMART has been tripped so I ran HD Workshop. It says "SPIN_RETRY_COUNT is below threshold, immediate action is necessary". Hmm ok, but anyone know what I'm suppose to do about it? Perhaps a way to reset it?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 1st Mar 2007 22:18
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Jammed motor, by the sound of it.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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GatorHex
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2007 18:59 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2007 00:51
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I learned my lesson a long time ago i never buy Seagate, they are cheap for a reason!

My recommendation is for buying a reliable hard drive is the...

Western Digital RAID Edition range (RE2)

They cost a few pounds more (only about £10-£20) but they are built with higher spec parts designed for RAID arrays that do not fail! Thier latest Mean Time to Failure figure is 1.2 million hours.. which if my math is correct is 136 years!!!

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2007 00:11
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What, they've been tested for that long!?


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GatorHex
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2007 00:50
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Not realy they use Accelerated Life Testing Analysis (ALTA)http://www.weibull.com/acceltestwebcontents.htm

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Phaelax
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2007 04:19
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well I'd like to get a Raptor, but I ain't got that kind of dough!

I've always preferred Seagate because they were among the best, at a time. But now they own Maxtor so who knows what their goal on quality is anymore. I have several WD 40GB.

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