I have 3 drives in this machine. One 500gb 7200.10 and two 750gb 7200.11 seagates. Both of my 750s throw spin retry errors that show up in Hard disk sentinel. They are both brand new and it says it can be from a weak motor or power supply. I have them both on a 550w corsair psu and the 750's are on seperate lines. Should I worry about this? I have upgraded them both to the AD14 bios. Thanks for any input.
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Seagate 7200.11 spin retry count errors.
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I'd definitely contact seagate support about it. They've always been good about answering my questions. Spin retry count is a pretty serious smart value.
Well I just think its odd that its happening to both drives that I bought at different times. The health in Hard disk sentinel is 88% and it still says it has 1000+ days of life left. If I wasn't using a program to check it I would have never known.
well just remember: google's study only found a 20% or so correlation of smart data and failure. smart told me my drive was a 98% health a month before it died :/
Guess that can go both ways? Only reason I am even running a progam to watch SMART is to make sure my temps are good.
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Smart is basically useless, I remember watching an episode of the Screen Savers (ZD TV/Tech TV pre G4 takeover) where they opened a drive and pored Coke on it while it was running and smart didn't even change after several resets after the drive was clearly screwed up.
I only use Smart on a drive I suspect is dying to see if anything is detected wrong, but I usually use it for temps and that's all.
I only use Smart on a drive I suspect is dying to see if anything is detected wrong, but I usually use it for temps and that's all.
I am not to concerned... these are two new drives bought at a couple months apart giving almost the exact same error. If it dies.. it dies. Least I can watch my temps. I know SMART is overally accurate but it did notify me my laptop drive was at 17% health and told me to back up my data. 3 weeks later the HD crashed. I noticed it had gotten a bit noisey but didnt realize it was that bad off.