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09-30-2009, 11:41 AM
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Is this an HDD problem or not?
I just added a new HDD to my deskop (have been slowly replacing my smaller drives with terrabytes and selling the old ones).
I got one of the new Seagate 7200.12s since it was at a very good price on newegg. Based on the feedback I saw, the 7200.12s (so far) have been getting DOAs roughly as much as the Caviar blacks and seem to have taken care of the issues with the 7200.11 generation. At first I noticed the drive was very fast, but a few days later I noticed its sort of a loud drive compared to the Blacks and I'm not sure if this noise is just part of how the drive operates or if it's a sign that this one is bad already. Apparently the way newegg is shipping the drives (with UPS) is causing alot of DOA's or drives failing shortly after buying. Regardless, I ran HDTune - it trasnfers very fast, as expected, but under the "health" tab, It has two entries highlighted in yellow: ID Current Worst Threshold Data Status (0A) Spin Retry Count 100 100 97 0 Ok (B8) (unknown attribute) 100 100 99 0 Ok It says that overall the drive health is fine. I checked the WD blacks and they seem to have the exact same value for these two parameters, but have no "threshold" paramter. I have no idea what this stuff means, so any insight would be great. **also, the drive has two partitions: a 250GB partition for the OS (Windows 7 RC) and the rest holding backups of all my windows CD's and important software as .ISO files. I'm not keeping anything critical on this drive - all important data is stored on the RAID 1, backed up online with dropbox, and also synchronized to my macbook, and (assuming no nuclear explosions) will be intact even if any of my hard drives fails.
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09-30-2009, 12:42 PM
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Run SeaTools and see what it says.
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10-02-2009, 10:32 AM
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SeaTools reports that everything is OK.
I just noticed that from the time it boots to windows 7 it seems to be doing alot of hdd access - the hdd light on the case is going on and off 2-4 times per second. Not sure why it's hitting the drive so much 
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10-04-2009, 04:22 AM
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Have you been transferring a lot of data over to the drive in question recently? Maybe the activity is the indexing service doing it's job?
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