Hello,
First i want to say im glad i found your thread and i hope ur still motivated to test things out even thought some posts in here were a bit negative
i think hdat the tool metioned by cgallery should be this one (correct me if im wrong):
http://www.hdat2.com/I own two of the same drives as yours one with Revision(firmware) 1AA01104 (half a year old) and the other one with 1AA01109 (2months old)
the 04 already had a hard time on lan partys switching between cases to move data from pc to pc
the 09 was placed on the bottom of my case while using it (1 month)
now both of them are mounted as they should be and air cooled to 24-25°C while operating
they are both used as data backup drives, no operating system is installed/used on them
what do u say to my first hddscan (of 09)? should i be worried? have you already tested your bad drive in every day use?
i hope the scan didnt harm the data on the drive ... (the drive is half full)
till 70% the drive had around 7000 over 5ms
from 70% to the end it climed up to 40000 sectors over 5ms .. hmmm
(with such numbers its hard for me to imagine that there are other drives with all sectors under 5ms; again correct me if im wrong)
around 98% i looked at the KB/s it was around 115000 KB/s (what did you have?)
did you tell the firmware of your drives already? sorry if i cant remember them...
bye b2k
oh btw hddscan shows the wrong date