Recent content by Martel-fs

I'm looking for a good mid-tower case with a SATA backplane. I currently have a CM690 which is great, but I really hate having to screw around with opening the right side panel and messing with cables any time I need to plug or unplug a hard drive. Is anyone making these yet? It seems like...

G-List has nothing to do with the controller. Data doesn't get remapped. The LBA of the bad sector is mapped to a new physical address. OP, no, bad sectors won't transfer. You won't get garbage data from them either. Hard drives are designed so that you either get good data or nothing at...

Why screw over Redbox for providing you with cheap and easy entertainment?

This is a known bug in the firmware of that drive. Google Seagate 7200.11 firmware for more info.

Swapping the controller board is not going to work on the majority of reasonably recent hard drives, as each drive has unique firmware info on the board

Once the drive is experiencing the firmware problem, no, you will not be able to see/access it with anything before it is repaired. It also doesn't have anything to do with the controller board. The factory-refurbish technique that is (or is supposed to be) used will wipe the drive, but that's...

You can monitor SMART, specifically values for reallocated sectors or offline UNC sectors. Windows will sometimes mention errors in the event log but it will not bring it to your attention. There are plenty of 3rd party utilities that you can use to set up an alarm though. As far as the...

No, if it was failing SMART that would fail Seatools. What can happen (and has been a big issue with WD drives) is that if the drive's natural error handling takes, say 7 seconds to ECC-recover a sector or decide to remap it but the timeout on the RAID controller is, say 5 seconds then the...

If your hard drive is in the process of failing, spinrite stands a good chance of just making it worse. I would not recommend using it.

Even a regular 5400rpm drive would be a huge improvement over what you have. I'd expect ~80MB/sec transfer from current gen drives.

Probably doing an offline SMART scan, this is completely normal.

In flash drives (basically the same technology) what really becomes the problem IS controller failure (or PCB failure, not uncommon in magnetic HDs also). And because of all of the nifty wear-leveling algorithms spreading your data all over the media, recovering anything from a dead controller...

Sounds like the 7200.11 firmware bug, IMO.

No offense, but ask any real data recovery pro about Scott Moulton, and you'll probably get a big :rolleyes:

Putting it in the freezer only works for very specific problems. If your drive is clicking intermittently it is probably suffering from weak/failing heads. Best to use something like r-studio to grab your one file you're looking for.