I've been hit with not one, but two HDD failures over this week. Seagate and WD can both cop a smack on the backside with a wooden spoon here. The PC was my brother's. It sees a few hours of use daily, either on the net or light gaming. Since he doesn't store much on it, 80GB HDDs have been enough. A few days ago, the PC wouldn't boot (started boot-looping), so I ran a HDD test with Seatools and it failed. The HDD was a Seagate 7200.9. I was able to Ghost it to another HDD. The only spare one I had on hand was an 80GB WD Caviar SE (WD800AAJS). The next day, it died also, with a similar problem - The PC was boot-looping and it failed a diagnostic test, although this time around, I couldn't ghost it, so I replaced the HDD with the 320GB WD that used to be in my main rig until about 2 months ago, and ghosted it from the Seagate. The PC has been OK since. The PSU is a Re-capped CWT PSF400S, and I don't think it's responsible.
I originally acquired the Seagate drive (the first one to die) a while back after the PSU in a customer's PC failed and destroyed the board, but the HDD survived. Considering its history, I don't blame it too much for failing.
The WD used to be in my main rig (a Socket A at the time) until about 3 years ago, when I upgraded, and gave my old PC to my parents. It was used in there for about another two years, when they got my old s775 PC and I got a s1156. I've already had to return it once aver a similar issue - data corruption, failed diagnostics tests and the PC boot-looping.
All I can say is
HDDs
I originally acquired the Seagate drive (the first one to die) a while back after the PSU in a customer's PC failed and destroyed the board, but the HDD survived. Considering its history, I don't blame it too much for failing.
The WD used to be in my main rig (a Socket A at the time) until about 3 years ago, when I upgraded, and gave my old PC to my parents. It was used in there for about another two years, when they got my old s775 PC and I got a s1156. I've already had to return it once aver a similar issue - data corruption, failed diagnostics tests and the PC boot-looping.
All I can say is
HDDs
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