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From: Arno on 30 Apr 2010 13:18
Lynn McGuire <lmc(a)winsim.com> wrote:
>>> I swapped the hard drive and put it into my Windows 7 x64 pc
>>> that apparently understands what 4k sectors are. No problems
>>> so far.
>>
>> See the following article.
>>
>> Advanced Format Hard Drive Download Utility:
>> http://www.wdc.com/en/products/advancedformat/

> I knew about that. I just decided not to do it.

> And the drive had a complete failure 30 minutes later after I
> wrote 30 GB to it. Unreal. The BIOS could still see it but
> Windows 7 x64 locked up trying to talk to it. I have ordered
> a replacement (cant return it because of the confidential
> material written to it). The comments on newegg are implying
> a 10% failure rate on these drives.

Consumer trash. Unfortunately there are no real alternatives.
At least it failed before you started to depend on it.

Well, maybe we need to go back to the bad old days were you had to
stress test a new HDD for a day or two to be able to trust it at least
a bit.

Arno
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From: DevilsPGD on 30 Apr 2010 14:55
In message <840hmgFrjqU2(a)mid.individual.net> Arno <me(a)privacy.net> was
claimed to have wrote:

>Well, maybe we need to go back to the bad old days were you had to
>stress test a new HDD for a day or two to be able to trust it at least
>a bit.

Those days never ended, especially if you're writing confidential data
and therefore can't return the drive for repair.
From: Lynn McGuire on 3 May 2010 00:25
>> And the drive had a complete failure 30 minutes later after I
>> wrote 30 GB to it. Unreal. The BIOS could still see it but
>> Windows 7 x64 locked up trying to talk to it. I have ordered
>> a replacement (cant return it because of the confidential
>> material written to it). The comments on newegg are implying
>> a 10% failure rate on these drives.
>
> Consumer trash. Unfortunately there are no real alternatives.
> At least it failed before you started to depend on it.

Definitely. "Thank you sir, may I have another" comes to mind for this
situation.

Lynn


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