Post your system.......

[RJARRRPCGP]

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40GB Maxtor 6E040L0 (I was originally going to use a Samsung SP2504C 250GB SATA but that would be ridiculous)

You may be forced to chuck the one you plan to use anyway, due to being prone to fail... I still not sure how you can keep the Maxtor Diamond Max 8 from lagging and going to a click-of-death???

It actually seems that some HDD repair businesses are elated because of that HDD series, LOL. They apparently want to sell a firmware fix for them as well...

[Dan81]

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I still not sure how you can keep the Maxtor Diamond Max 8 from lagging and going to a click-of-death???

I guess the PC it came from (a PCChips M825G/Linkworld PSU combo) didn't see a lot of use. That,or 6E040L0s don't break that easily .

[momaka]

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That,or 6E040L0s don't break that easily .

Oh, they do! Just wait for it.
Slimline Maxtor HDDs have always been very prone to failure. I'm not sure what causes it (whether it's bad disk surface media or the heads themselves), but once they start racking up bad or pending sectors, it's only a matter of time before click of death. Funny thing is, sometimes they can take up to a year or two to die from that. Still more reliable than Toshiba 2.5" HDDs, I suppose.
So yeah, with any luck, you may be able to get 2-3 years of use out of that HDD, or more if you only used it once in a while.

[TechGeek]

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Crashtor DiamondCrash drives at their best.

[Dan81]

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Oh, they do! Just wait for it.
Slimline Maxtor HDDs have always been very prone to failure. I'm not sure what causes it (whether it's bad disk surface media or the heads themselves), but once they start racking up bad or pending sectors, it's only a matter of time before click of death. Funny thing is, sometimes they can take up to a year or two to die from that. Still more reliable than Toshiba 2.5" HDDs, I suppose.
So yeah, with any luck, you may be able to get 2-3 years of use out of that HDD, or more if you only used it once in a while.

Dunno. I actually did happen to come across a Maxtor 60GB drive that said SMART was bad,but after I formatted it with the original Xbox's filesystem (FATX,accesible by a special Linux disc apparently) and back to NTFS/FAT32,it worked fine.

And for the record,I actually had a bad 6E040L0 that still ran without clicking or anything.

However,what makes me believe I might get more than 2-3 years out of this is the fact that I still haven't got a bad sector out of it,and imagine most of the stuff inside it was dated 2003-2004. (even the case!)

As for the SP2504C... should I expect that to fail? It's one of those weird shaped black-coloured Samsung Spinpoints,and not the flat HD version (like my HD103SI that still holds strong.)

[RJARRRPCGP]

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And for the record,I actually had a bad 6E040L0 that still ran without clicking or anything.

They're apparently not good like the DiamondMax 9 series are...

I had 2 of them that failed... The second one I had the same one as what you're planning to use, started having a lag problem, I was like, "what the bleep?!" when it noticeably took longer to load the boot loader...

[momaka]

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And for the record,I actually had a bad 6E040L0 that still ran without clicking or anything.

Like I said, they do that, until they rack up enough bad sectors. This can happen overnight or in the course of a few years. But they *always* end up racking up bad sectors.

However,what makes me believe I might get more than 2-3 years out of this is the fact that I still haven't got a bad sector out of it,and imagine most of the stuff inside it was dated 2003-2004. (even the case!)

Older HDDs in general are still more reliable than some modern low-end drives.
So as long as you don't put any data on that 6E040L0 that is important, keep on using it. I have one myself (a 40 GB). Ironically, I used to use it for data backup.

As for the SP2504C... should I expect that to fail?

I don't know, but it looks like the older PATA Spinpoints, which were excellent HDDs.

[DoctorJO]

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I have a laptop MSI GT80S actualy i also want to sell it him and switch to new MSI GT83VR.

My Spec's:
CPU: intel i7 6920HQ SkyLake
RAM: 32Gb DDR4 2133 MHz
GPU1: Nvidia GTX 980m SLI 4GB
GPU2: Nvidia GTX 980m SLI 4GB
Msata SSD: 128Gb + 128GB Raid 0
HDD: 1Tb
Blu-Ray
Windows 10 Home 64Bit EN

[RJARRRPCGP]

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Oh, they do! Just wait for it.
Slimline Maxtor HDDs have always been very prone to failure. I'm not sure what causes it (whether it's bad disk surface media or the heads themselves), but once they start racking up bad or pending sectors, it's only a matter of time before click of death.

Actually, here's another symptom to look for:

When wiping the HDD, you see program's progress appear to stumble, you see it look jerky or skippy.

[potatopie17]

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Here are the specs of my system:
built back in 2007 and still going strong
ASUS m2n-sli deluxe motherboard (recapped with all solid state caps in 2012) "59 caps all together
Phenom ii x4 940 processor. (before was an athlon x2 6000+)
COOLER MASTER Real Power Pro RS-650-ACAA-A1 smps (recapped in 2015) with same diameter and height capacitors too keep the same characteristics of originals so I wont have ripple problems
250gb seagate hard drive and 1 terabyte hardrive
Lite-On Model DH-20A4P-04 dvd drive (started randomly opening and closing) weird the eject button was causing it, replaced eject button and now is ok.
coolermaster tx3 pushpull heatsink with delta 92mm 70cfm fans I got from broken dlp TVs
nvidia gtx 650ti graphics (used to be 8800gts)
oh and a coolermaster case centurion 5 I think
8 gigs of memory gskill and kingston
now running windows 7

[Dan81]

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My rigs:

1:

Biostar P4M900-M7 SE
Gainward GT210 1GB
2GB DDR2 (2x1GB)
Pentium E2180 2GHz
Modecom FEEL-400ATX (Deer-built,recapped with Rubycons)
1TB Samsung HD103SI HDD
HL-DT-ST GSA-H55N & GSA-4167B DVD-RW drives
generic Deer-built case that I took care of restoring (they're pretty cool)
Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64
AVerMedia AVerTV Super 009 TV Tuner (Phillips tuner)

2:
Biostar MCP6P-M2
AMD Sempron 3400+
onboard GF6150SE GPU
Spire ATX-500W-E1-PSU (which now hosts the insides of a low to mid-end Deer with PI coils)
2GB DDR2 (1 stick,ADATA)
Western Digital WDC WD800BB-75JHA0 IDE
ASUS DVD-RW
KME CX-5768 case
Windows XP SP3

3:
MSI P4MAM-L
ATI Radeon HD3450 512MB AGP
Pentium 4 2.4GHz
1GB DDR400 (2x512MB PC3200,Sycron brand)
Premier LC-B350ATX (recapped)
Samsung SP0411N 40GB HDD
HL-DT-ST GCR-8481B CD-ROM
JNC RJA-8673 case (built by Deer)
Windows XP SP3

[jiroy]

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Lol , whenever i see this thread title , i become cynically laughing .. I don't know how many systems i have ... As simple as that . I'm sure some systems can be found in any corners or deep in some dark closet . What i know is it is supposed to find a system in every room , for laziness purposes

[Topcat]

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Lol , whenever i see this thread title , i become cynically laughing .. I don't know how many systems i have ... As simple as that . I'm sure some systems can be found in any corners or deep in some dark closet . What i know is it is supposed to find a system in every room , for laziness purposes

I couldn't begin to name off every system that's lurking here either....but the big one at my desk in my office is the one I depend on....most the others are test systems, retro/restorations, lab rats, or door stops.

[jiroy]

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I couldn't begin to name off every system that's lurking here either....but the big one at my desk in my office is the one I depend on....most the others are test systems, retro/restorations, lab rats, or door stops.

I know the pain ... External Hards always do the trick , the usual programs , the same three most boring games in the world and copies of my projects in R language , TV shows , repair logs , political data .
4 GB rams is a priority and should always be there . Two have 8GB and Nvidia is a must , the rest are always for trade or sell , sometimes gifts for cousins .
A big central one is a dream , it need organizing the lot of chaos first of all . Maybe some day when my clients stop nagging , lol ..

[TechGeek]

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Dunno. I actually did happen to come across a Maxtor 60GB drive that said SMART was bad,but after I formatted it with the original Xbox's filesystem (FATX,accesible by a special Linux disc apparently) and back to NTFS/FAT32,it worked fine.

And for the record,I actually had a bad 6E040L0 that still ran without clicking or anything.

However,what makes me believe I might get more than 2-3 years out of this is the fact that I still haven't got a bad sector out of it,and imagine most of the stuff inside it was dated 2003-2004. (even the case!)

As for the SP2504C... should I expect that to fail? It's one of those weird shaped black-coloured Samsung Spinpoints,and not the flat HD version (like my HD103SI that still holds strong.)

That Maxtor drive probably hasn't seen a lot of use. OTOH, I have a Western Digital EIDE drive from 1998 that has Windows 95 on it. It hadn't seen use in so long that the heads literally got stuck to the platters. Violently shook it a few times, heard a 'click' noise, powered it back up... and loaded into Windows 95 with USB 1.0/1.1 SUPPORT!!!

[lbwlow]

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1st main rig:
Intel Pentium III 733Mhz Slot One coppermine (OC to 825Mhz)
Asus 133 Apollo motherboard
384Mb RAM
32Mb Nvidia Vanta graphics
2 x 20GB HDD (Quantum Fireball)

2nd main rig:
Acer OEM desktop
Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5Ghz
Acer 630i motherboard (manufacture by MSI) <Suicide itself due to bumpgate I guess>
4Gb DDr2 ram
1TB HDD
Nvidia 9600GT 512Mb
Stock Acer FSP PSU with 2 x 6pin

3rd main rig (rebuilt from 2nd rig):
Core 2 Quad Q9300 2.5Ghz
Asrock 4core1600 P35 Wifi+
6Gb ddr2 RAM
2 x 1TB HDD
Silverstone 750W PSU
Nvidia GTX480 GPU
High end Cooler master casing (forgot bout the model)

4th main rig (bought as junk at dirt cheap price, apparently just the HD6570 that came with it was dead):
Intel Core i5 3450
Gigabyte Z77X-D3H motherboard
12Gb ddr3 ram
1 x 1Tb HDD, 1 x 320Gb HDD, 1 x 1TB external
FSP 650W PSU
Gigabyte HD6850 1Gb
Gigabyte Alpha Sumo casing

HTPC rig (bought as junk as well cause 1 of the ram slot had burn mark on it, but the slot still works):
Lenovo ThinkCentre Edge 71
Intel Core i3 2120
4Gb DDr3 ram
400GB HDD
Nvidia GT520 1Gb

[Dan81]

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Just upgraded my PC a slight bit.

ASUS P5GC-MX/1333
Pentium E5200 2.5GHz
2GB DDR2-800 RAM
Allied AL-A400ATX - 120mm fan (recapped w/ Chemicon KY caps and 13009 transistors)
1TB Samsung HD103SI
2x DVD-RW drives H-L
Sapphire/AMD Radeon R7 240 2GB - yes,much to my surprise it works.
AVerMedia AVerTV Super 009 TV Tuner
JNC case with front RGB leds and plexiglass sidepanel with Raidmax blue LED fan

[TechGeek]

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System I drug out of storage:

Dell Dimension 2400
80GB HDD
Pentium 4 2800MHz CPU
HP DVD Writer dvd300i
Generic FDD
Stock Motherboard
512MB RAM
USB 2x
...and that's I all can remember...

[RJARRRPCGP]

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ASUS P5GC-MX/1333
Pentium E5200 2.5GHz

And if you change the RAM-to-FSB ratio to 1:1, then getting 3.0 Ghz is easy... IIRC...

And that's if you can't find an E8400... An E8600 is better off, with the multi at 10.0...

[Dan81]

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And if you change the RAM-to-FSB ratio to 1:1, then getting 3.0 Ghz is easy... IIRC...

And that's if you can't find an E8400... An E8600 is better off, with the multi at 10.0...

I think ASUS cripples down the BIOS on microATX boards. At least I can only find AI overclocking but that's about it. Also I'm on stock cooling...