Master&Puppet
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So. New PC, new storage.
I bought a Mushkin Chronos 60gb for my OS which worked perfectly for about a month before one day, it simply decided to not work. I tried it in different ports, different cables and a separate working machine. Nothing sees it. No worries, sometimes you get unlucky (it is after all a Sandforce SSD. Should have bought something else maybe). No worries, I'll be sending it off for RMA and have put my WD veloci back in for the time being.
On to the new storage - a brand new WD caviar green 3tb. Hooked it up and I couldn't see it anywhere. Not in an OS, Windows or Ubuntu, not even in BIOS. It's over 2.2tb so I update my BIOS (z77a-gd55) to 1.5 to make sure that 3tb+ infinity (MSI's thing for seeing big drives) is up to date. Re-start, enter Ubuntu and it appears so I format it into ~700mb + 2tb NTFS partitions with operations completing successfully.
So I restart and the PC just hangs before even posting and reaching bios. HDD light on the motherboard is on. I tried different cables, different ports, the other pc and as the only drive or as a secondary drive. Same HDD light in all cases. Problem is alleviated by removing the HDD and re-booting at which stage both pcs boot perfectly into Windows as usual.
I'm beginning to think that the bios update is a coincidence and that the drive was basically DOA with one spark of life in it which happened to show when I did the bios update. After all this HDD has been on the market for 2+years and my mobo was only released a few months ago so why would the HDD not already be supported in bios 1.0?
WTF? Have I just had 2 drives fail on me? Any further suggestions for testing before I RMA this one too? I feel a little bit cautious about the number of coincidences...
I bought a Mushkin Chronos 60gb for my OS which worked perfectly for about a month before one day, it simply decided to not work. I tried it in different ports, different cables and a separate working machine. Nothing sees it. No worries, sometimes you get unlucky (it is after all a Sandforce SSD. Should have bought something else maybe). No worries, I'll be sending it off for RMA and have put my WD veloci back in for the time being.
On to the new storage - a brand new WD caviar green 3tb. Hooked it up and I couldn't see it anywhere. Not in an OS, Windows or Ubuntu, not even in BIOS. It's over 2.2tb so I update my BIOS (z77a-gd55) to 1.5 to make sure that 3tb+ infinity (MSI's thing for seeing big drives) is up to date. Re-start, enter Ubuntu and it appears so I format it into ~700mb + 2tb NTFS partitions with operations completing successfully.
So I restart and the PC just hangs before even posting and reaching bios. HDD light on the motherboard is on. I tried different cables, different ports, the other pc and as the only drive or as a secondary drive. Same HDD light in all cases. Problem is alleviated by removing the HDD and re-booting at which stage both pcs boot perfectly into Windows as usual.
I'm beginning to think that the bios update is a coincidence and that the drive was basically DOA with one spark of life in it which happened to show when I did the bios update. After all this HDD has been on the market for 2+years and my mobo was only released a few months ago so why would the HDD not already be supported in bios 1.0?
WTF? Have I just had 2 drives fail on me? Any further suggestions for testing before I RMA this one too? I feel a little bit cautious about the number of coincidences...
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i hate HDD crashes
