Hundreds of thousands of CRC errors...

[Doc]

SMART status: Failing

That's my boot drive.

I don't know what I was thinking. I should have known better than to buy a Maxtor drive.

Thank goodness I've got backups.

...And my original data appears to be intact.

No bad sectors. Just an extra few hundred CRC errors every time I start up. If it was just a few CRC errors, I'd feel okay ignoring it for awhile, but the large and growing number is a good indicator of impending hardware failure.

Two new drives (1 extra for the clone) are on their way.

[Jimmypoo]

Maxtor = Seagate. I don't think highly of either one anymore.

[laarree]

Doc wrote:
Two new drives (1 extra for the clone) are on their way.

I assume NOT Maxtor? What kind of drives? (just curious)

[Doc]

laarree wrote:
[quote=Doc]
Two new drives (1 extra for the clone) are on their way.

I assume NOT Maxtor? What kind of drives? (just curious)
Seagate.

Drive-quality always seems to be changing. 'Can't rely on one manufacturer for very long, but it's usually not hard to keep track of whose quality is improving and whose is declining. These things are cyclical.

Unfortunately, this year is a bad year for hard drive quality. All of the manufacturers seem to be at the wrong end of the curve.

WD's quality is on the decline, as is Seagate. Maxtor is Seagate's budget-line and it shows. Hitachi may have bottomed out... we'll see if they're any better next year.

Right now, I don't even trust enterprise drives. Lately they fail just as often as cheap ones.

Seagate's 7200.12 series seems to have a tiny edge over WD right now, so I went with a couple of those. 'Bit of a crap shoot, but that's the state of HDs in today's consumer market.