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Western Digital Raptor forgot to park the heads
My Raptor just died with something like "read head error 0007". Tried
it with the Western Digital diagnostics boot CD. Tried it on my spare computer. Same result. Last night, the Internet was turned off through ZoneAlarm and my PC had been idle for about five minutes, the monitor off. Thinking it was off, I mistakenly flipped a switch that removed power from the PC power supply, improperly shutting down the PC. I thought hard drives these days parked their heads when power is removed, apparently my Raptor forgot to park the heads this time. If the return process takes too long or goes bad, I will buy a larger 7200 RPM drive instead of a Raptor. I have an SDD drive for my primary drive. A slower secondary drive probably will make little difference. |
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Western Digital Raptor forgot to park the heads
On Apr 26, 10:56 pm, John Doe wrote:
My Raptor just died with something like "read head error 0007". Tried it with the Western Digital diagnostics boot CD. Tried it on my spare computer. Same result. Last night, the Internet was turned off through ZoneAlarm and my PC had been idle for about five minutes, the monitor off. Thinking it was off, I mistakenly flipped a switch that removed power from the PC power supply, improperly shutting down the PC. I thought hard drives these days parked their heads when power is removed, apparently my Raptor forgot to park the heads this time. If the return process takes too long or goes bad, I will buy a larger 7200 RPM drive instead of a Raptor. I have an SDD drive for my primary drive. A slower secondary drive probably will make little difference. Shouldn't fail per se as a result of power interruption -- parking the heads could be outside a subset of WD's list of "smart" error routines. One person here appears to have gotten the 0007 if not as well a 0225, and managed to squeak by with an unusual zeroing format technique.... 0001 - 0008, 0015 SMART Error Self Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (SMART) Error returned during SMART Status/Self Test Command. The drive is defective. Replace Drive 0007 - smart quick self test i had a system with both drives reporting read element failure. put in a new drive , loaded the os . then got the same error. tried all 3 drives in a different computer and same error. full scan would not fix the problem either, however i did a full write zeros to disk and the problem was solved. DLGDIAG 5.04f Error/ Status codes 0007 on quick and 0225 on full media scan. |
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Western Digital Raptor forgot to park the heads
John Doe wrote: My Raptor just died with something like "read head error 0007". Tried it with the Western Digital diagnostics boot CD. Tried it on my spare computer. Same result. I mistakenly flipped a switch that removed power from the PC power supply, improperly shutting down the PC. I thought hard drives these days parked their heads when power is removed, apparently my Raptor forgot to park the heads this time. "These days" goes back to the 1980s for some HDs and at least 15 days for all others. When the power is turned off, whether by telling Windows to shut down or by yanking the AC cord, the hard drive parks the heads automatically. The power for this comes from the platters coasting because the electronics convert the spindle motor into a generator. I've actually seen this in an ancient Seagate (probably 20-40 megabytes) with the cover removed. |
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Western Digital Raptor forgot to park the heads
On Apr 27, 3:37 pm, Steve wrote:
These are nice and fast: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136533 Western Digital Caviar Black WD1002FAEX 1TB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive s Friend wanted a monitor to replace his ancient 17" CRT, so I picked up a Samsung 22" listed for a monitor (only HDTV included "among monitors" of that quality listed for $200). Anyhow...needed another multimedia HD and said screw it and got a 1- point-5 terabyte from NewEgg a few days ago -- so now I've both Samsung's 1T and now its 1.5T. Anyway...right after I bought it, within a couple days, and I do this on a regular bases -- NewEgg, for $20 more than what I paid, drops Samsung's 2-point terabyte down to $120. It's up for grabs now (listed 4/26 - so for the next few days) -- down from maybe around $150. Me - no major deal, the 1.5T hopefully will be fine, and I do like reviews to be a little more established (Samsung is presently leading over most brands with fewer "NewEgg" failures). Also - these ECOGreen 5400rpm variants, the 1.5T is reviewed well within - I should be able to live with. For the most it's going to be a bigbutted multimedia thingy. (Oh - there's another, though likely just missed -- it's the Samsung 1T EcoGreen -- saw it on FatWallet last weekend for $69-ish from a less-known vendor;- Again, I'd take NewEgg's way of dealing upfront with "fine print" that isn't so small.) |
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Western Digital Raptor forgot to park the heads
The RMA process and replacement went smoothly.
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