Hard Drive Damage…2x

[daveleau]

Hopefully they won't come back. If they do, we'll know it was something else and go from there. Please keep us up to date as I am interested to see if the app was at fault.

[PyroSama]

Glad it worked for ya.


PyroSama

[Zotzmein]

Sorry, I wrote that response after a long day, I'm not going to undelete, I'm going to delete Y! Messenger.

Regards,
Zotz Mein

[Zotzmein]

Twenty-four to forty-eight hours after this post the problem started up again. I haven’t done much troubleshooting, I’ve been out of town until yesterday evening. Any thoughts now?

Regards,
Zotz Mein

[MDS]

are you running any DC's ? Also do you have any speakers close to your case where the HD is located?

[Zotzmein]

I'm showing my ignorance but DC? I’ve got a small pair of cheapo speakers. The magnets in the speakers would need to penetrate the case, the computer is to my left, so it would need to penetrate the mounting plate of the motherboard and the motherboard itself. What you think? Unplug the speakers?

Regards,
Zotz Mein

PS – The speakers are about three inches away from the exterior of the case.

[MDS]

DC=Distributed Computing
I was thinking more a long the line of a unsheild sub for a pair of low $ speakers I wouldn't think that the magnets would be stonge enough.

Another ? that comes to mind is the power supply what rating is it. I wouldn't think the ps would cause the problem as your not really drawling that much current.
Other then windoze what else do you have installed software wise?

[Zotzmein]

I should have known that, I’ve been running SETI for the last five or six years on various computers. Having been out of town for a week, I’ve still got a lot of thing on my plate and have not had the time to address this situation. I ran passmark.com’s DiskCheckup below are the results. Since this is a relatively fresh install, all I’ve got loaded is Office 2000, Adobe Acrobat 5.0 full edition, and VNC viewer.

Drive SMART enabled



IDE REGISTERS:

Features: 0x0 Sector Count: 0x1 Sector Number: 0x1

Cylinder Low: 0x0 Cylinder High: 0x0 Drive Head: 0xA0

Command: 0xEC



DRIVE INFORMATION:

Serial Number: Y2SPYRXE

FirmWare Rev: YAR41VW0

Model Number: Maxtor 6Y060L0

Cylinders: 16383 Heads: 16 Sectors per track: 63

Cur Cyls: 16383 Cur Heads: 16 Cur Sectors/Track: 63

Bytes per track: 0 Bytes per sector: 0

Gen Config: 64 Buffer Type: 3 Buffer Size: 4096

Vendor Unique: 0 0 0 More Vendor Unique: 0x8010

ECC Size: 57 Double Word IO: 0 Capabilities: 12032

PIO Timing: 512 DMA Timing: 0 BS: 7

Current Sector Capacity: 16514064 Total Addressable Sectors: 120103200

Mult. Sector Stuff: 272 Single Word DMA: 0 Multi Word DMA: 7



SMART ATTRIBUTES:

ID Description Raw Value Status Value Worst Threshold

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3 Spin Up Time 5188ms OK 221 221 63

4 Start/Stop Count 39 OK 253 253 0

5 Reallocated Sector Count 0 OK 253 253 63

6 Read Channel Margin 0 OK 253 253 100

7 Seek Error Rate 0 OK 253 252 0

8 Seek Time Performance 42400 OK 253 247 187

9 Power On Hours Count 9021 OK 253 253 0

A Spin Retry Count 0 OK 253 252 157

B Calibration Retry Count 0 OK 253 252 223

C Power Cycle Count 41 OK 253 253 0

C0 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

C1 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

C2 Temperature 42 C OK 253 253 0

C3 (Unknown attribute) 818 OK 253 252 0

C4 Reallocation Event Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C5 Current Pending Sector Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C6 Offline Scan Incorrect. Sector Count 0 OK 253 253 0

C7 Ultra ATA CRC Error Count 0 OK 199 199 0

C8 Write Error Count 0 OK 253 252 0

C9 (Unknown attribute) 10 OK 253 252 0

CA (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 252 0

CB (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 252 180

CC (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 252 0

CD (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 252 0

CF (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 252 0

D0 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 252 0

D1 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 192 192 0

63 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

64 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

65 (Unknown attribute) 0 OK 253 253 0

[tacsplace]

May be totally off base here but you may need to check your power supply.

I fried 3 hard drives within a month due to my power supply underpowering my system.

Moved up to a 480 Watt Antec and haven't had a problem since.

[Zotzmein]

Please explain check. Are you saying just to make sure it’s a particular wattage or is there some kind of test I need to perform?

I see what your saying. I’ve got a full compliment of peripherals installed and I’m sure the power requirements of one of these large capacity, higher RPM drivers is greater than the old Seagate 6.8 gigabyte drive that was originally installed in this system.

Warmest Regards,
Zotz Mein