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Hard Drive Failures
19 years ago
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Normally I'm great at handling computer and hardware issues on my own, but I want some input on this one.
Two of my SATA Samsung SP1213C 120GB hard drives have 'failed' within two months of each other. The first one showed random delayed write failures in increasing frequency, I saved what I can from it and removed it. It showed no problems in the SMART codes.
Two months later, today, my other Samsung was doing the exact same thing, again with no SMART code warnings. I've tried updating the device drivers (They're on an integrated VIA raid controller, although they aren't being used in raid mode) and that didn't seem to work.
I am currently running memtestx86 on my desktop as I write this, a sign I'm at my wits end.
EDIT: http://www.gpknow.com/badmem.jpg Hooray! x.x Now I just have to figure out which of 4 DIMMS that is.
Two of my SATA Samsung SP1213C 120GB hard drives have 'failed' within two months of each other. The first one showed random delayed write failures in increasing frequency, I saved what I can from it and removed it. It showed no problems in the SMART codes.
Two months later, today, my other Samsung was doing the exact same thing, again with no SMART code warnings. I've tried updating the device drivers (They're on an integrated VIA raid controller, although they aren't being used in raid mode) and that didn't seem to work.
I am currently running memtestx86 on my desktop as I write this, a sign I'm at my wits end.
EDIT: http://www.gpknow.com/badmem.jpg Hooray! x.x Now I just have to figure out which of 4 DIMMS that is.
Commissions to finish: 
pmoss
pmoss 
Otherwise, I don't know. I could take some stabs in the dark but I'd prolly just hurt myself.
Thanks for the input
I mean, you could.
You could have some fascination with numbers, or be some kind of math whiz writing a book...
Or it could be your job, or....
monday, tuesday, happy day.
Also, can you put the drives into another computer to test them?
I will probably call Samsung soon.
just a though
Nforce 4 chipsets have a HUGE ERROR dealing with certain types of harddisks, specially with "command queing" enabled drives, wich makes HDDS to fail, crash, erratically transfer speed, get slower.. or even corrupt the data.
there is no solution for this problem.
I think only drivers and disabling command queing fixes the problem.
a8N uses "Nforce 4 " :o
btw, another thing could be...hmm.. too much vibration, or temperature in your room?
some fast hdds (over 10,000 rpm ) are very delicate on these therms
thats why IBM got sued hard because their ultraDextar drives only were "were garanteed" when used less than 4 hours daily for 1 year of total garantee, wich is ridicoulous.
maybe the ship of your mobo came fried or similar stuff.. :/
or try a SATA to IDE transformer and see if it works..
because its weird.
Also, don't be surprised if the shit fucks up after a year if you have one of those super high access speed ones. The faster they spin, the harder they fall.
Ironically my 10,000 RPM Raptor swap drive is also the most reliable drive I've owned, and the only WD drive I ever had that didn't ultimatly fail (its also a lower density, only 37.4GB or something)
Is it possibile that a hardware change on another device is conflicting with the two drives? I know a while back I changed out my graphics card without updating the rest of my machine to be able to run with it - nearly fried some of the machine.
Of course, the card I replaced got fried to since I kinda overclocked it... lmao
If I had overclocked my system, I would expect problems like this x3.
I'll ask around at a couple of the local PC Custome shops I frequent. See if maybe they know of have heard something similar to this. Maybe they know what's up...