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all drives running around the 40C (105F) mark. did my first scrub last night WD20EARX has gone up to 6 BAD sectors 713 passive sectors......this seems like a bad thing to me. I'm thinking ill send this drive back too.

Yeah ran wdidle3 set to 300seconds off memory, ill look into an RMA on those two drives, any recommendations on testing before i ship them off?

Hi all, I've got a couple of issues for those more wise than me that know a bit about HDD's so should i worry about any of this? 1 Hitachi 5k3000 has developed 1 active bad sector 1 Hitachi 5k3000 has developed 36 passive bad sectors My WD20earx has 414 passive bad sectors and is only a...

hi all, just chasing a bit of advice, I'm building a pc for my dads business that's only going to be used maybe 5 hrs a week. but those few hours I'd really like to keep it running and data loss protection is paramount. so asside from backups after every session I'm setting it.up with raid...

Hi all, currenty finalising my home/home office backup/file server setup and would like an opinion. Firstly this is to be pretty much as low power as possible but i want fast file transfer rates so the plan is i already have the drives and raid card which pull over 500MB/sec easily saturating...