Critical issues with WD green drives

[Robison, Dave]

On 06/02/2011 09:09, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 06/02/11 18:02, Reid Linnemann wrote:
>
>> I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power supply. After
>> an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over the place. I
>> replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, and when
>> the machine got stable finally I just tried to leave it alone. Finally
>> I bought a new atom board, thinking that some component on the
>> mainboard had been killed by the storm. Problems persisted until my
>> mini-itx case came in with a fresh (less powerful) power supply.
>>
>
> Thanks, but in my case this is unlikely.
> I have reduntant power supplies and 4 SAS drives which work flawlessly.
> Only the two SATA have problems.
>
>  bye & Thanks
>     av.
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I've had serious problems with those drives, including more than one 
which was dead right out of the box.

Dave


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