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About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them!

08 January 2009, 2:18am

Been a while, so one was surely due. A WD 750GB drive has half died, with the BIOS reporting a drive error at boot and the OS not seeing it at all. I can't run any diagnostic tools since it's not detected.

I had a spare drive on hand in preparation for such an event, so the RAID1 array is currently rebuilding.

This brings the count of failed WD drives to 3, out of a total of about 20 installed. Still not as bad as the overall Seagate failure rate, but it's not looking so great...

Incidentally, I found the invoice and it seems this drive was purchased at the same time as the previous WD drive failure, which developed bad sectors in June 2008. Coincidence, or is someone in the supply chain throwing these things around? I treat them with kid gloves once I get them. :)