Meltdown?

When I finished tinkering with the heatsink for my CPU and turned on my computer it was hanging at the IDE check during BIOS load. I fiddled with it and determined it was my slave drive causing an issue. I take out the drive and find this:



The plastic case is bubbled from what I guess was extreme heat. I threw the drive in the freezer and hooked it up. It has been running since. Luckily that drive was my designated storage drive so I immediately backed up my important files. The drive is still running...but I'm assuming it's time for a new drive.

I'm looking at buying a paid of 640gb SATAII drives and running them in raid. I'm on a tight budget but am looking to upgrade my slow and obviously aging IDE drives.

Might be cheaper to go with a 1.5Tb drive, not sure on US prices...

what do the smart values look like for that drive?

Ahhh the good ole freezer trick saves the day again !

sounds like a good plan Striker WD Blacks

That? I swear I've seen that on my HDD's as well and they run like a charm.

TBH that looks like leftovers from the molding process.

I thought it was gook or some sort of dirt at first. But when I tried scraping it off, I realized it was cooked plastic. The drive is running fine still and the SMART values aren't bad:


This is the Western Digital that looks as pictured above.


This is the Seagate I'm running as my primary.

rnt any pending or relocated sectors... id imagine your drive is fine.. probably just crappy paint on the aluminum.

Aye, I still believe it's not melted plastic from the drive overheating. It looks like a poor casting.

Still, if you threw it in the freezer, I don't know if you can rely on it...