Re: WD Black
philo <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.comp.hardware |
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| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
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On 6/26/20 5:25 PM, Paul wrote: > philo wrote: >> On 6/26/20 5:05 PM, Paul wrote: >>> philo wrote: >>> <snip> >>> >>> I'm not aware of any other patterns that can be produced >>> inside. There's no "wear leveling" in a hard drive. There are >>> little test routines that drives use, but what the output >>> of those would be, to the user, is a mystery. Like, if >>> an internal short test fails, how does the drive tell >>> you that, exactly ? Normally, the information would >>> only be imparted, if an external utility commanded it, >>> and the status that comes back tells you the result. >>> >>> One IBM drive used to self-test, every 71 seconds, >>> and it was accompanied by a "screeching sound", since >>> the test pattern caused seeks at high speed. That might >>> have been on a 15K drive. It made the drive only >>> suitable for locked server rooms, as no human could >>> put up with such a noise inside a house or apartment. >>> But again, to what purpose ? How does the drive tell >>> you that something is wrong ? It can piggyback a sense >>> code onto some unassuming SCSI command, but with SATA >>> I don't know if the interface logically supports that >>> sort of thing. >>> >>> Paul >> >> >> >> Thanks Paul. >> >> >> For now I have the drives put away. >> >> Will run some tests on them next time I get a chance. Looking to the >> future though, I'll be moving everything to SSD. >> >> >> Seems like only yesterday I upgraded from an 850 meg drive to a 2 Gig. >> >> I was so nervous, I broke out into a cold sweat! > > Do you have the drive model number handy ? > > I'd like to use that for some more Googling. > Just using WDC Black may not be enough, to find > a similar experience. It might be a particular > afflicted model (because every firmware is different, > and if you have 500GB/1TB/2TB drives, the last two use > a different firmware than the first one - sometimes > particular capacities of drives have a firmware bug). > > Paul The drives are 2TB WD2003FZEX /64MB Cache Mfg date 2/ 2015 Malaysia 640 GB WD6401AALS /32MB Cache Oct 2010 Malaysia