Just FYI is all

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Just info for anyone, I had my RAID 5 go critical due to this drive while I was at work. I got everything moved to one of my PATA 120s, and took down the array to make sure which one. I'm contacting mwave about a replacement tomorrow.

One point down for Hitachi... Hope this doesn't start a trend. I'd hate to have to replace all of these 250's...
Tas.

 

[Googer]

I have had my 7k250 for over a year now and have not had a problem yet. Could your problem be a Raid subsystem failure? A bad Cable? BIOS?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Nope. I isolated everything. Swapped cables. Swapped power supplies (not power cables, actual power supplies), everything. It was the drive. I'm still going to be using Hitachi though. Hopefully just a single occurance.
Tas.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
Nope. I isolated everything. Swapped cables. Swapped power supplies (not power cables, actual power supplies), everything. It was the drive. I'm still going to be using Hitachi though. Hopefully just a single occurance.
Tas.

Would it have not been easier to just swap computers? If you put it into another machine, it would have been running on a differant PSU, Different Chipset, Different BIOS, Differant Everything. It is always much easier to take a dead hdd out of a pc and plug it into a known working machine than it is to change parts with in the PC like you did. Silly

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
Nope. I isolated everything. Swapped cables. Swapped power supplies (not power cables, actual power supplies), everything. It was the drive. I'm still going to be using Hitachi though. Hopefully just a single occurance.
Tas.

Would it have not been easier to just swap computers? If you put it into another machine, it would have been running on a differant PSU, Different Chipset, Different BIOS, Differant Everything. It is always much easier to take a dead hdd out of a pc and plug it into a known working machine than it is to change parts with in the PC like you did. Silly

Hehe QFT! Anyways, my 7K250 160GB has been fine for a year. Just bought another one this summer. Worked fine. But I had the PATA version. Well, i hope nothing does go wrong.

 

[mode101wpb]

I just installed a 160GB T7K250 SATA, it's been over a month..knock on wood.

CompUSA is blowing out the 7K250 SATA, doesn't have 3.0Gb/s support for $39.99 after rebate. Just saw the ad in today's sale flyer.

Did you monitor the temperature? I'm around 32C but it's a single drive right inline with the intake fan.

Also did you use or try the Drive Fitness Test Utility?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: tasburrfoot78362
Nope. I isolated everything. Swapped cables. Swapped power supplies (not power cables, actual power supplies), everything. It was the drive. I'm still going to be using Hitachi though. Hopefully just a single occurance.
Tas.

Would it have not been easier to just swap computers? If you put it into another machine, it would have been running on a differant PSU, Different Chipset, Different BIOS, Differant Everything. It is always much easier to take a dead hdd out of a pc and plug it into a known working machine than it is to change parts with in the PC like you did. Silly

Um, not really, as I only have one computer. And the machine was up and running just fine. The RAID 5 array was still running on the other 4 hds, although not in a fault tolerant state.

Oh, by the way. I didn't have to totally swap out the power supply in my machine. My computer has two power supplies (660 and 460), so I just changed which power supply was feeding the drive.
Tas.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: mode101wpb
I just installed a 160GB T7K250 SATA, it's been over a month..knock on wood.

CompUSA is blowing out the 7K250 SATA, doesn't have 3.0Gb/s support for $39.99 after rebate. Just saw the ad in today's sale flyer.

Did you monitor the temperature? I'm around 32C but it's a single drive right inline with the intake fan.

Also did you use or try the Drive Fitness Test Utility?

The drive will not come up at all. So I'm unable to run the Drive Fitness Test Utility. It just sits there and makes a clicking sound about every second.
Tas.

 

[mode101wpb]

Not good, that sucks. Now you got me worried, I was hoping that Hitachi fixed the "Deathstar" image with these new drives. Did you enable 3.0 Gb/s through the Feature Tool previously?

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Nah. My SATA controller doesn't support it, so I didn't bother.
Tas.