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Five boards RMAed since march and now disc...
If you've RMAed 5 motherboards in less then a year and now the problems with your hard drive, I'd say there's something seriously wrong that hasn't been addressed...
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I had to RMA my first Samsung 500GB drive due to the same problem. SpinRite could not repair the sectors and they were growing in number every day.

Read the FAQ @ StorageReview about the "Clicks of Death"

http://www.storagereview.com/php/tiki/tiki...age=DeathClicks

I replaced it with a WD 640GB since its about the fastest 7200RPM drive you can buy. I want to go RAID but I'm limited with my current Shuttle box.

Also for anyone else reading this and not familiar with Samsung, their RMA process is years behind WD and Seagate.

BTW check your power supply, maybe the voltage rails are unstable.

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I still believe this Samsung is among the fastest drives available if not fastest alone (wish they made 1TB VelociRaptor, lol).

Power is perfectly ok... I assume the problem is having the PC on 24/7. I did have some lockups and freezes. Might be that.

and Samsung's RMA is not of any interest for me cause I can have the disc replaced right on at the store I bought it in :)

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If you bought it localy ( IE neighborhood Best Buy or whatever instead of over the internet) when they replace your disk they probably could transfer your data over to your new disk for nominal fee.

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I cannot resist as well, sorry. :(

In MY times, we would have used ;):

486,112 3.5" 1440 K floppies

583,334 5.25" 1200 K floppies

1,944,445 5.25" 360 K floppies

or

a few zillions roots and stones:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...21362&st=10

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1908

http://tinyapps.org/weblog/misc/2007022507..._in_my_day.html

:thumbup

jaclaz

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Well I don't see what Jesus has to do with it... But now that you mentioned Him, He probably could have just memorized it all.. ;)

I don't care even if it was Jehova, but please, for the sake of everything nice and good left on Earth, don't start about Chuck Norris :D

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Going off topic but...

and no, the Western Digital Black and RE3's are faster

Proof or it never happened :)

It has to do with Areal Density, Platter Size, and NCQ Algorithm, Random Access Times etc.

Western Digital's Caviar SE16 640GB hard drive I personally use these :wub:

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14380

Western Digital's Caviar Black hard drive

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15363

Samsung's Spinpoint F1 hard drive

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14200

But if you want the fastest single drive you go for Intel! :w00t:

Intel's X25-M solid-state drive

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15433

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If you bought it localy ( IE neighborhood Best Buy or whatever instead of over the internet) when they replace your disk they probably could transfer your data over to your new disk for nominal fee.
If they do a direct replacement at the store... make sure they aren't swapping it for a 'referb' drive! you bought new, you should get new. :yes:
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I cannot resist as well, sorry. :(

In MY times, we would have used ;):

486,112 3.5" 1440 K floppies

583,334 5.25" 1200 K floppies

1,944,445 5.25" 360 K floppies

or

a few zillions roots and stones:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...21362&st=10

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=1908

http://tinyapps.org/weblog/misc/2007022507..._in_my_day.html

:thumbup

jaclaz

And to think I could barely copy a couple of handfulls of them without one or two reading wrong...

So with those numbers you are looking at several thousand dead disks. :o (We are talking POUNDS of dead disks here people :P )

Or maybe I just always had bad luck.

Maybe we can build a life-like statue of Jesus from them :D

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