Ever Had A Dogy RMA HDD?

[AngelfireUk83]

I believe the HDD I got from Seagate is a bit dodgy my original was a Maxtor D-Max 10 250GB SATA-II HDD but the returned drive was a refurbished Seagate 250GB.

Formatted it via the XP Set-up CD and it installed fine trying to do some video encoding & I get a error about memory could not be read. I've had a number of BSOD's too and the 1st thing I did was a memtest check and the 2GB OCZ I had at the time passed 100% with 4hrs burn in.

Just wondering whats the worst amount of RMA's you've had ever had to send it back more than once.

[zbo]

Have you used any programs to check the health of the HDD?

It does sound dodgy.

[AngelfireUk83]

What programs do you recommend I did a disc check with the inbuilt XP disk Checker and no bad sectors where reported it just think thats giving false info.

[Kuroimaho]

In 2001 a WD drive died on me within a week, the new replacement was Doa, the third drive is still running today.

Check the smart of the drive first.

[AngelfireUk83]

SMART in the BIOS reports nothing just enabled so passes that without problems must be a nero thing I'll try some other software see if it encodes, DB PowerAmp R13 has no issues when converting music. IE7, Nero and just scrolling through XP have giving me BSOD.

Since I sold my 2GB kit on Monday before I sent it off I formatted XP and did a fresh install just waiting now on my OCZ 4GB memory to arrive then I'm moving over to XP 64Bit.

[jediman]

seagate has send me two bad hard drives after rma. i love how my 200g wd is 10 years old and running fine but my assortment of 500g seagates seem like they are doing all they can to survive

[AngelfireUk83]

seagate has send me two bad hard drives after rma. i love how my 200g wd is 10 years old and running fine but my assortment of 500g seagates seem like they are doing all they can to survive

I am going with WD next plan on buying 2x 250GB and placing them in RAID 0 or 1 whichever is best for stablity.