Re: [H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 12:47 PM 29/04/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: Check out this SMART data: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPwoutput=html It's from a WD 80GB SATA2 drive I just purchased to replace one that was failing. I'm no expert but something is fishy. Either the drive is ready

Re: [H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-30 Thread Brian Weeden
Maybe I'm just reading it wrong - I thought that since all the values were higher than the threshold that it was bad. Is it the other way around? -- Brian On 4/30/07, Thane Sherrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:47 PM 29/04/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: Check out this SMART data:

Re: [H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-30 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 09:33 AM 30/04/2007, Brian Weeden wrote: Maybe I'm just reading it wrong - I thought that since all the values were higher than the threshold that it was bad. Is it the other way around? Lower is bad, except in the case of heat or lifetime power on hours or spin up time (though I

[H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-29 Thread Brian Weeden
Check out this SMART data: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPwoutput=html It's from a WD 80GB SATA2 drive I just purchased to replace one that was failing. I'm no expert but something is fishy. Either the drive is ready to drop dead any day now or the SMART data

Re: [H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-29 Thread Joe User
Hello Brian, Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:47:33 AM, you wrote: Check out this SMART data: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPwoutput=html It's from a WD 80GB SATA2 drive I just purchased to replace one that was failing. I'm no expert but something is fishy. Either

Re: [H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-29 Thread Brian Weeden
Pretty crappy seeing as how I just bought it. Oh well. -- Brian On 4/29/07, Joe User [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Brian, Sunday, April 29, 2007, 10:47:33 AM, you wrote: Check out this SMART data: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=pIkHR2B_QrGWJ_R1O8OmRPwoutput=html It's from a

Re[2]: [H] Is this drive dying?

2007-04-29 Thread Joe User
Hello Brian, Sunday, April 29, 2007, 11:45:03 AM, you wrote: Pretty crappy seeing as how I just bought it. Oh well. Yeah but that's happened to me a number of times, sometimes I wonder if they accidently package RMA'd drives or something. -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any'