New WD hardrive freezes

[WildWeasel]

Hi,

I recently bought a new Western Digital 160GB Sata drive.
After twee weeks the hd went up in smoke... :-(
I received a replacement drive (the same one as i had) and it was
working perfectly...untill a few days ago.

The drive suddenly "freezes" from time to time, blocking my sytem for a
few moments. This is ofcourse very annoying!
The "freezing" is accompanied by a loud "clacking" noise.
I think the is best described like the old harddrives that went in
"parking" position , but then a few times louder.

What can be the problem with this harddrive?
I don't want to lose all my valuable data again!
Is there a solution or do i just have to change HD again? (probably
another brand next time)
Anyone ever had this problem before?

Thanks in advance,

Kris

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Hi,

I recently bought a new Western Digital 160GB Sata drive.
After twee weeks the hd went up in

smoke... :-(

That should tell you something.

I received a replacement drive (the same one as i had) and it was
working perfectly...untill a few days ago.

The drive suddenly "freezes" from time to time, blocking my sytem for a
few moments. This is ofcourse very annoying!
The "freezing" is accompanied by a loud "clacking" noise.
I think the is best described like the old harddrives that went in
"parking" position , but then a few times louder.

It's going to the Zero position to then start a retry.

What can be the problem with this harddrive?

You probably have Power Supply problems that cause the drive to mal-
function, resulting in bad sectors that will be retried unsuccessfully.

I don't want to lose all my valuable data again!

Check your Power Supply and PS cabling to the drive.
Also check your drive's temperature.

Is there a solution or do i just have to change HD again?

HD is probably not to blame.

(probably another brand next time)

Only helps if it is less susceptible to low Power than your current.

 

[Peter]

I recently bought a new Western Digital 160GB Sata drive.

After twee weeks the hd went up in smoke... :-(
I received a replacement drive (the same one as i had) and it was
working perfectly...untill a few days ago.

The drive suddenly "freezes" from time to time, blocking my sytem for a
few moments. This is ofcourse very annoying!
The "freezing" is accompanied by a loud "clacking" noise.
I think the is best described like the old harddrives that went in
"parking" position , but then a few times louder.

What can be the problem with this harddrive?
I don't want to lose all my valuable data again!
Is there a solution or do i just have to change HD again? (probably
another brand next time)
Anyone ever had this problem before?

Change power supply in your PC.

 

[Rod Speed]

I recently bought a new Western Digital 160GB Sata drive.
After twee weeks the hd went up in smoke... :-(
I received a replacement drive (the same one as i had) and it was working
perfectly...untill a few days ago.

The drive suddenly "freezes" from time to time, blocking my sytem for a few
moments. This is ofcourse very annoying!
The "freezing" is accompanied by a loud "clacking" noise.
I think the is best described like the old harddrives that went in "parking"
position , but then a few times louder.

What can be the problem with this harddrive?

Its recalibrating when it cant read the data properly.
Thats what is causing the freeze too, trying bad data.

I don't want to lose all my valuable data again!

Surely you backed it up after the first failure ?

Is there a solution

Work out what is causing the drives to die.
Check the temperature using DTemp
http://private.peterlink.ru/tochinov/

If its not that, the power supply may be killing drives.

Post the SMART data using Everest from
http://members.iinet.net.au/~rod_speed/everesthome201.exe

or do i just have to change HD again?

Its unlikely that you have had two die by coincidence.

(probably another brand next time)
Anyone ever had this problem before?

Yes, some systems do kill drives.

 

[Arno Wagner]

Hi,

I recently bought a new Western Digital 160GB Sata drive.
After twee weeks the hd went up in smoke... :-(
I received a replacement drive (the same one as i had) and it was
working perfectly...untill a few days ago.

The drive suddenly "freezes" from time to time, blocking my sytem for a
few moments. This is ofcourse very annoying!
The "freezing" is accompanied by a loud "clacking" noise.
I think the is best described like the old harddrives that went in
"parking" position , but then a few times louder.

What can be the problem with this harddrive?
I don't want to lose all my valuable data again!
Is there a solution or do i just have to change HD again? (probably
another brand next time)
Anyone ever had this problem before?

Could be overheating. Can it still be toiuched comfortably when
freezing?

Arno

 

[WildWeasel]

Hi again,

Yesterday I bought a new power supply.
The problem seems to be solved!
Thanks for all your help!

Cheers, Kris

 

[Rod Speed]

Yesterday I bought a new power supply.
The problem seems to be solved!
Thanks for all your help!

Thanks for the feedback.