Disk Troubles…
My PC that I use at home is used amongst other things as a media center as well. For this, it was equipped with dual disks (one of 300Gb and one of 160Gb). I state was, as one of the disks had failed. Or perhaps I should say: alternately failed… I’m using Maxtor DiamondMax disks, and it seems that these are simply unreliable buggers (according to StorageReview, they are less reliable than 68% of all drives submitted in their storage survey). More than a year ago, my (then) 250Gb drive had failed and only recently I got time to take it out and bring it to the shop for an RMA. Thank god for their new extended warranty (was 1 year, is now 3 years, I believe)…
Anyways, after receiving a 300Gb replacement, I tried installing it in my PC. Nothing. It didn’t show up, not even passing the SATA drive validation during bootup. I tried re-seating all the cables: nothing. I inserted another power cable: nothing. I switched both SATA cables: now the 300Gb comes online and the 160Gb has failed…
Great… One of the SATA ports on my motherboard died. If anyone knows of a good SATA controller (with external eSATA connectors as well!) I’d be interested.
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