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1st September 2004, 22:25 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Dying Maxtor 120gb Ever had this happen to you? My maxtor 120gb is slowly dying, I'm transferring data from the disk at 1500kb/s , and about 50% of it is unreadable.. it still runs, and apparantly has been running for quite some time like that since I use it as a 3rd storage disk and only recently noticed it when I tried to copy/move some files. not sure if I still have warranty, if not this drive is going to be massacared :grin:
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1st September 2004, 22:30 | #2 |
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| Only Seagate for me from now on... 5 years warranty (Not of much use when a disk crashes fatally full of data but still ) |
1st September 2004, 22:50 | #3 |
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| How old is it? Try RMA?? 4 IBM Drives and 1 Western Digital in the last 4 years. I did get replacement on all of them. It sucks, doesn't it/
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1st September 2004, 22:50 | #4 |
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| Warranty period of seagate's already changed? I thought it was still under consideration. @jmke: try unplugging it and let it cool down.
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1st September 2004, 22:56 | #5 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| @Lazyman: don't know how old, have 6x120gb Maxtor drives here bought at different times, I need to check the RMA status at maxtor site, but for that I need to remove it from the system, I'm transferring data first before final shutdown @Richbastard: system is down every other 17hours, even after first bootup it shows errors. luckily no precious data is stored on any of my drives which is NOT backupped
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2nd September 2004, 18:57 | #6 |
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| http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/storage...901082859.html Dunno if this counts for all the HD's they sold in the past five years. I don't think so BTW, you only need 160 DVD's for a backup of those 6 drives. |
9th September 2004, 10:52 | #7 |
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| well, the 160 dvd would still be chaeper, $160 would only get you 2 x 160 2mb cache drives from samsung |
9th September 2004, 11:09 | #8 |
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| low level format + burn in test declared the drive safe to use again.. gonna use it as a temp storage device I think
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17th October 2004, 14:31 | #9 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| yeaay; the other 120GB Maxtor which I bought around the same time is showing the same problems; yippie
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