4th WD drive failure

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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!

27 January 2009, 7:14pm

Yep, another drive has gone. It started playing up a couple of weeks ago, "disappearing" from the OS a few times as if it wasn't connected. A reboot was required to recognise it again. This time when it misbehaved the "Offline Uncorrectable" and "Current Pending Sector" SMART values increased (ie went non-zero) on boot, and both a short and long self test failed prematurely.

The spare I'd received as a swap for the previous failed drive - replaced around 3 weeks ago - barely had a chance to sit on the shelf before being pressed into service!

It's been about a year since I switched to WD so with further failures there's a greater chance that I will have to return the drive to WD rather than doing a straight swap at the retailer. The catch is that a drive from WD is likely to be "refurbished." I haven't used a refurb WD before, but the Seagate ones are super dodgy: it's almost not worth returning it since they're likely to start playing up within half a year......