PC Gaming Upgrade Thread "The Last Jed Ti"

Chox1988

Yeah if its a 3 slot i'd knock the idea on the head .

Use a small fireplace guard?

RandomLee

Good call, I'll have to look into those

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WD 3TB Green SATA 6Gb/s 64MB 3.5" Hard Drive (WD30EZRX) - dabs.com   
£100.99

http://www.pcworld.co.uk/gbuk/components-upgrades/internal-hard-drives/3-5-inch-hard-drives/wd-internal-3-5-sata-hard-drive-3tb-11358358-pdt.html?srcid=198&cmpid=ppc~gg~Home / Components & Upgrades / Internal Hard Drives / 3.5 inch Hard Drives~11358358&istCompanyId=9a35962d-802d-4e67-9721-0a3328ca1f02&istItemId=ilrilqxr&istBid=t

TheNameIsJambo

Rip off!

You can get a 7200RPM Seagate version for the same price

http://m.ebuyer.com/319640

RandomLee

Any ideas why I'm getting a caution on this drive? Windows Disk Management says it's healthy Edit:

After some Googling, it seems if you have Current Pending Sector Count cautions, you're going to have a bad time

Luckily it's within warranty so I can RMA it. Luckier still, it's only my downloads / Windows back-up drive so I can easily shift the 710GB of data onto my 2TB.

Phew

TheNameIsJambo

You got anything important on that drive?

I'd recommend you shift it off.

If you have a WD drive in your machine you should try this program - http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=612&sid=3

You should do a full erase (fill it with zeros), it may solve the issue by assigning 'spare' sectors

But it can, and probably will, degrade over time, unfortunately!

RandomLee

Cheers bud.

Nothing of any real importance... just my downloads, Windows back-up and all my Android modding stuff.

I’ll back it up, write zeros to it and then RMA it. It’s only 385 days old so shouldn’t be failing this early.

It’s a Samsung but RMAs are handled by Seagate now so I used SeaTools which failed on self test and gave me a ticket number for RMA. Quite efficient actually!

If it was my games drive I’d be more worried. Only thing is now I don’t know if I’ll trust the replacement.

TheNameIsJambo

Happy days! Don't Seagate (and WD) do a 5 year warranty, or such like?

The 'zeroing' of the drive should sort out those sectors; that's if you want to keep using it, but then again, you'd need to keep an eye on it from time-to-time. Saying that, the degradation process isn't overnight, it would take months (maybe, depending on usage?) for it to start losing data. Although, 1 corrupted bit is enough to render a file unreadable/unusable.

Personally, I'd stick to Seagate and/or Western Digital

I need to pick up a couple more 3GB drives. I've got a mish-mash of storage, at the mo - 3GB   1TB internal, and 1TB external - Or something along those lines. I'm sure I've got about 5-6TB of space.

But I'd like to collate it all into a RAID, with a separate drive for Windows and crap.

EDIT
In other news, I'm tempted by this!

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-120-CS

Chox1988

Seriously? youre only running 1 gpu and youre not wc'ed, it would look awful in such a big empty space. Wouldnt be surprised if your temps went up because of the increase in static air in there

TheNameIsJambo

I'd have to go WC'ing if I invested though, so I'll have to do a little research before I buy in! (And I think I'd also want to update my Mobo and CPU, but Haswell isn't tickling my pickle!)

Don't know about SLI-Titans though, I'd maybe go SLI-780s. Especially since I have a sprog, a couple of grand will go amiss!