Hard Disk probably on the verge of crashing

[Sushubh]

https://imgur.com/JeIJI

was referring to this. and no i did not clean up the cabinet. it looked like chernobyl when i opened it up. took quite a lot of effort to find the power and data cable to reach where i loaded the third hard drive. broke a couple of plastic parts which would cause problems in the future. the plastic tray for the HDDs have become brittle and they break on little pressure. i guess my next desktop upgrade would include a new cabinet. this one has served me well. i guess it had to considering i spent around 6-7K on it umpkin:

i did manage to inhale a lot of dust while installing the hdd. man. it is a painful process. and thankfully i did not damage anything during the whole process! my cabinet is a hilarious mess of wires and dust and god knows what. ;D

i am assuming that this wd green is a 5400rpm drive? only that can explain the low temperature

the seagates are barracuda 7200.11 and 7200.12

should have followed the same path and got myself the 7200.14 disk this time around. let's hope it does not end up becoming a htc one x for me

 

[xyx2000]

WD Green is probably 5400 rpm, so will run cooler than 7200 seagate

 

[Sushubh]

righto. i did get faster than 100 MBps write speeds when i was copying data on it. so i guess it is not that bad. i imagine reading speeds would be low. but then i just watch video content from it.

 

[xyx2000]

Green is designed for storage not for running OS

 

[Sushubh]

righto. i plan to use a hybrid or a ssd when i need to replace my primary drive running the OS. it is older than the 1TB that went bad yesterday!

 

[Sushubh]

ok. weird problem. i moved all the data from this 1TB drive and formatted it. now seatools do not show any problems with the drive i imagine the bad sector detection utility hid the bad sectors? is this drive still eligible for warranty replacement?

 

[manu1991]

if seatools doesnt show any error, then no.

 

[Sushubh]

lol. what a mess.

 

[manu1991]

got a call from my computer guy, he finally got the hard drive from Rashi yesterday. One month after it was submitted for RMA. lets see how long this one lasts.

 

[sachins]

I have not read the complete thread but I have used many hard drive test utilities over the years and the ONLY utility I would recommend you is the "Test Hard Disk Drive 1.0" which comes in a bootable package from hiren - Hiren's BootCD 15.2 - All in one Bootable CD » www.hiren.info

the current version is 15.2 but many people like me prefer the versions before 10.6 - Hiren's BootCD - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia