My advice for Today...

[Paulson]

People of the non technical world don't realize that just because a hard drive formats it's good. They have no idea of the concept of bad sectors, and while they sell the item as working the drives really aren't in that tip top shape.

Case in point... today I received a hard drive from ebay for an ipod mini. It's a 4Gb hitachi microdrive. Does it format? Oh yeah it does. Does it work? Nope. So far it's got 222 sectors bad on it and it's not even 10% done scanning the drive yet. I got another one earlier this week that had 37 bad sectors (however that one works just fine for the most part)

I'll keep you updated on the outcome...

here's the auction:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi...&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1

for all purposes I think I'm just going to stop buying parts on ebay and try to get my money back from it...

 

[Yossarian]

this whole ipod repair thing doesn't seem to be going to smoothly for you. are you making any money?

 

[JDrake]

Ooo that sucks.
I stay away from eBay for computer-hardware-related stuff...

 

[Looney]

I would never buy a used HDD unless it had manufacturer warranty on it.

 

[cubby1223]

I wonder if the item description of:

"IMPORTANT! ONLY ABLE TO DO A QUICK FORMAT OPTION! WILL NOT COMPLETE A FULL FORMAT PROCESS!"

should have been an indication.

 

[FoBoT]

what if they say the drive is "NEW" sealed in anti static bag and show a picture of it?

 

[Paulson]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I wonder if the item description of:

"IMPORTANT! ONLY ABLE TO DO A QUICK FORMAT OPTION! WILL NOT COMPLETE A FULL FORMAT PROCESS!"

should have been an indication.

Some apple branded hitachi microdrives will not complete a full format process but be 100% working...

oh well, doesn't matter, the guy is willing to refund my money so it's all good...

 

[JonnyStarks]

Originally posted by: cubby1223
I wonder if the item description of:

"IMPORTANT! ONLY ABLE TO DO A QUICK FORMAT OPTION! WILL NOT COMPLETE A FULL FORMAT PROCESS!"

should have been an indication.

😀

 

[Compton]

ive bought u320 scsi hard drives off ebay and i've had pretty good luck.

 

[Cooler]

Originally posted by: Paulson
Topic Title: My advice for Today...
Topic Summary: don't buy hard drives off of ebay...

Nice Rhyme!