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  • Per Hansson
    Super Moderator
    • Jul 2005
    • 5895
    • Sweden
    #21
    Re: Looking for some low profile hard drives

    Maxxarcade; Try another cable. A bad cable can cause such errors...

    And also poor power supply, measure with a DMM at the drive's molex connector when it's running
    "The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it."

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      • Maxxarcade
        Badcaps Veteran
        • Jul 2006
        • 973
        #22
        Re: Looking for some low profile hard drives

        Will do, next time I open the server to upgrade the fans. Though I doubt it is the problem; all the hardware in the system is new.

        I think the one that is a symptom of a bad cable, is the "UDMA CRC Error Count", which still shows 0 on this drive. Though I do have some of those errors on one of my main PC drives... Hmmm, another excuse to open it up and upgrade some stuff

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