Yeah, but now I'm pissed. Not only did it fail within an unreasonable amount of time, but their level of service was not up to par - and service/warranty was one of the purchase reasons. You can be sure I'm going to be thinking long and hard before I ever recommend anyone else buy one.
Correct.
In my first call I specifically requested it (they mentioned it would cost $25) but the rep had to "verify" frist that they could do it, and he would call later. After an hour I received a "Standard Warranty RMA" email which definitely did not mention cross-shipment, so I contacted...
Grr. Had to pay $570 to get my advanced replacement... by buying another drive. So far so good, it at least let WHS restore create partitions without hanging. :-)
Boo to Intel.
"According to case notes and based on our warranty files, unfortunately these units are not entitled for Cross Ship replacement. That is the reason why the technicians processed the RMA as Standard Warranty Replacement. We have a list of parts that can be returned as Standard...
Well... seeing as Windows kept saying the partition was corrupt, I wondered whether that might affect the diagnostics tests. So I deleted the partions (since it seemed that all my data was gone already - I have a backup but there were a few modified documents I would have liked to retrieve) and...
Ugh. Hooked the drive up to another i7-based Windows 7 system. When I booted it wanted to chkdsk it, but I cancelled. Drive reported in the system as "raw" file system type, and when I tried to access it the system said the drive or folder is corrupted or unreadable.
Installed the Intel SSD...
Out of curiosity... how do I so a secure wipe? I believe that's a part of the SSD toolbox, but the SSD is my system drive so I can't get to it.
Right now Windows Startup Repair has been "attempting to repair disk errors" for nearly 4 hours. No progress bar (just a moving line to indicate that...
Installed an Intel 250gb 510 SSD a couple of months ago on a new system with the Intel DX58SO2. Everything was great until I rebooted yesterday, and the whole thing seemed slower than usual - like it was hanging reading files. Then later my automated WHS backup failed, which usually indicates...
Yeah, the Hitachi's are an especially good bargain these days. Don't know what's going to happen now that WD has bought them out.
I've had the Barracuda XT's for a few days now, and they seem quite nice. Noise level is low - very quiet seeks. There's a bit of a mid-tone "whirring" sound of 4...
I recently shopped for 7200RPM 2TB drives as well, and yes it certainly doesn't seem to be a pretty picture out there.
It seems the drives are either prone to failure, or are noisy (which I can't stand). However the reviews on Newegg of early or outright failures should be tempered with the...
Distributors/wholesalers aren't much better.
I ordered 5 Barracuda XT's from one of the big guys in Canada. They came in a giant box. Inside the giant box were 5 smaller boxes that fit that larger box exactly. So far so good.
The problem: inside each of the 5 smaller boxes were the drives...
K, just making sure. Remembering some old advice about not paralleling data & power lines (in walls/ceilings). and since SATA is unshielded, was unsure if extremely close parallel runs could present a crosstalk issue or not.
So I'm building my new PC, paying attention to my cable runs, and I started bundling my SATA cables together into a nice neat stack where possible (4 cables stacked neatly together into something of a cube) and then I realized, that there may be issues with paralleling SATA cables this way for...
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