On 11/26/2011 10:05 PM PT, Rod Speed typed:

The question is whether they get more over time.

Hmm. So, last night's incident was just a hiccup?

Nope, thats when it got more over time.

Hmm, I wonder if the random and rare hard PC lock ups were caused by
this dying HDD. Is that possible?


I still haven't seen any more incidents...

Because you are deliberately not using the drive.

Well, XP does use it sometimes like using its $MFT. :P I do have some
programs on there too. In fact, I used one this morning (mostly
downloading a streaming video file) during a two hours GSmartControl
full test.
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