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Samsung HD201UI going bad?

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achensherd

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Last night when I turned on the external enclosure it was in, it spun up, stopped, spun up again, and then stopped completely, the computer not detecting it whatsoever. I turned the enclosure off and then on again, and this time it did the same thing except after the second spin-up the computer detected it.

After backing it the hell up (over the course of a day -- 850GB over USB 2.0 takes... a while), I ran an error check on it only for it to fail within a few minutes, with the drive then showing as unformatted in My Computer. Thinking the enclosure might've had something to do with this, I swapped it for another, identical one, and for a while it spun up in the same, unusual way, but was at least detectable and otherwise working normally. This morning, however, it stopped starting up that way, and instead starts up like it always had, as in it would spin up and then get detected immediately.

Is the motor possibly on its way out?
 
It's an HD204UI. My bad.

Just ran HDTune, which gave it a clean bill of health. *Shrug* :confused:
 
I would think that it is very likely that it is the enclosure they fail all the time. Especially the El-cheapo Chinese power supply's they give you with them.
 
You're probably right. I just swapped the power supply just in case. Doesn't give me much peace of mind, I have to confess; it seems sometimes there's no way to tell until it's too late. I'm probably just going to have to keep an eye and ear on it.
 
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