Samsung spinpoint f3 1tb problem.

[Influenza]

I bought this drive a few weeks ago and installed win XP on it , installed all my programs on it and everything was fine for about a week , i booted my PC up one day and got the Chkdsk screen up and it had loads of index errors in $130 of various files and after that my PC wouldnt boot , not even in safe mode.

I downloaded HD tune and the samsung utilities and ran every test under the sun with both of these and both came back with 0 errors.

So i installed XP again from a different disk this time , updated everything and it worked fine for another week until yesterday morning , yep same chkdsk screen and index errors in $130 or various files.

Now it wont boot past the log in screen , ive ran surface scans and everything i can find and they dont find any errors with the drive but every week or so it seems to be corrupting some of the files on it.

Ive ran memtest for 8 hours continously overnight and got 0 errors with that , the PC worked fine with my seagate drive in.

 

[Ch3tan]

RMA it.

 

[inactionman]

Tried backing it up and doing a low level format?

 

[ST^]

RMA it.

This. Don't fuck around with hard drives.

 

[Influenza]

Aye im gonna RMA it cheers , just thought it mightve been something stupid , i havent had a dodgy harddrive since the old IBM deathstars.

 

[caLLous]

I remember those, I had 4 60GXP's that all died on me. Bad memories.

 

[Yaka]

ibm death stars was succeeded by maxtors for a bit (had 7 of these dodgy buggers) then seagate i think had a dodgy batch last year. ive owned em all sadly:/

 

[caLLous]

Had a few Maxtors die on me too (a few years back mind, but since the death stars). WD seems to be the best for me, touch wood. I just bought 2 Samsung F4 Ecogreen 2TB jobbies. I think I'll start them off in RAID 1, people seem to be worried (from random forum posts I've read) about the lack of reviews.

Quick RAID question actually, if I start them in RAID 1 and then later on decide to just go *wild* and use them as individual disks again, is it easy to destroy the array, keep one set of data and format the second disk to use invidividually?

 

[TdC]

no, not without a datamigration proggy. otherwise, I'd say...risky, unless you have a spare disk to make a backup on.

 

[Athan]

Surely you could break the RAID 1, format the broken-out one and copy the data to it before fully putting the RAID out of its misery ?

Note you may want to be VERY sure of which one you took out of the RAID .