Rod Speed wrote:
Yousuf Khan wrote
I've also rebooted the system quite a bit more often than I usually do in that time. HD Sentinel is also now starting
to upgrade its Health rating automatically, it had gone down to 40% at its lowest and today it's at 52%.

I've never considered those numbers are very useful, what matters is the raw value.

Well, they seem to be based on the same criteria that we'd use to judge
quality: how many errors are there, and how often do they occur.
Recently they've been occurring much less frequently, so it's been
upgrading its rating for the drive.

Its much more likely to be a lot more complicated than that.

What else did you change when you moved from IDE to SATA ?

Did you change the motherboard or power supply ?

Neither were changed. Power supply was obviously changed in the previous
round of troubleshooting, so it didn't need to be changed again.
Motherboard and processor remained what they were too; as a matter of
fact the reason this change was done was to eventually upgrade the
motherboard and processor down the road -- it's extremely difficult to
find new motherboards with more than one IDE channel anymore, so I am
preparing for the next generation. It was difficult to find a
motherboard with two IDE channels (i.e. 4 connectors) the last time too.

There were 4 SATA connections, and 4 IDE connections. Two SATAs were
previously unused, so I just moved two IDEs over to SATA. The only
things left on IDE are the optical drives.

The old thread did say you upgraded the power supply.
Did you see the spin retry count keep increasing after that ?

Yes, it did keep increasing after that. But the PS upgrade fixed many
other unrelated problems so I wasn't unhappy about that.

The only raw value you did post wasnt that high, just 20.


Well, it's gone upto 32 since then -- and holding.

Yousuf Khan