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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
I have a Sata 6.0 drive, an Hitachi GST Deskstar H3IK20003272SP, which
strangely enough I have only used intermittently mostly for data backup. I have been using it on an older system ( circa 2008 ) whose Sata controller only supports Sata 3.0. I had experienced occasional problems in the past with the drive, a few times when backing up software and once when I tried installing a Linux distro to a partition on the drive, but had not been using it very much otherwise. Currently the drive is empty again but I was considering another installation ( Windows 8.0 for which I have an OEM version ) on the drive. The warranty period for the drive ends at the end of August, and Hitachi will honor the warranty since I checked on their RMA site. Running quick and extended smart tests on the drive show no errors, but when I also look at the errors that smart had reported against the drive I am told that there have been a total of 1856 different errors, of which I can see the last 5 reported in detail. None of my other hard drives, used much more extensively than the Hitachi, show any smart errors having ever been reported during use. Is the drive defective ? Or have the errors and occasional problems I have encountered occured because I am using a Sata 6.0 drive with a Sata 3.0 controller ? I am of course strongly tempted to RMA it to Hitachi, but they might respond that since the Smart quick and extended tests show no errors, there is nothing wrong with the drive and not replace it. But I am naturally worried it might still be defective and I do want to use it if it is actually working well. |
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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
On 07/28/14 06:51 pm, Edward Diener wrote:
I have a Sata 6.0 drive, an Hitachi GST Deskstar H3IK20003272SP, which strangely enough I have only used intermittently mostly for data backup. I have been using it on an older system ( circa 2008 ) whose Sata controller only supports Sata 3.0. I had experienced occasional problems in the past with the drive, a few times when backing up software and once when I tried installing a Linux distro to a partition on the drive, but had not been using it very much otherwise. Currently the drive is empty again but I was considering another installation ( Windows 8.0 for which I have an OEM version ) on the drive. The warranty period for the drive ends at the end of August, and Hitachi will honor the warranty since I checked on their RMA site. Running quick and extended smart tests on the drive show no errors, but when I also look at the errors that smart had reported against the drive I am told that there have been a total of 1856 different errors, of which I can see the last 5 reported in detail. None of my other hard drives, used much more extensively than the Hitachi, show any smart errors having ever been reported during use. Is the drive defective ? Or have the errors and occasional problems I have encountered occured because I am using a Sata 6.0 drive with a Sata 3.0 controller ? I am of course strongly tempted to RMA it to Hitachi, but they might respond that since the Smart quick and extended tests show no errors, there is nothing wrong with the drive and not replace it. But I am naturally worried it might still be defective and I do want to use it if it is actually working well. Some SATA drives have/had jumper blocks that included an option to "throttle" the drive back to an earlier SATA level. Does your Hitachi have that feature? Perce |
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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
On 7/29/2014 7:41 AM, Percival P. Cassidy wrote:
On 07/28/14 06:51 pm, Edward Diener wrote: I have a Sata 6.0 drive, an Hitachi GST Deskstar H3IK20003272SP, which strangely enough I have only used intermittently mostly for data backup. I have been using it on an older system ( circa 2008 ) whose Sata controller only supports Sata 3.0. I had experienced occasional problems in the past with the drive, a few times when backing up software and once when I tried installing a Linux distro to a partition on the drive, but had not been using it very much otherwise. Currently the drive is empty again but I was considering another installation ( Windows 8.0 for which I have an OEM version ) on the drive. The warranty period for the drive ends at the end of August, and Hitachi will honor the warranty since I checked on their RMA site. Running quick and extended smart tests on the drive show no errors, but when I also look at the errors that smart had reported against the drive I am told that there have been a total of 1856 different errors, of which I can see the last 5 reported in detail. None of my other hard drives, used much more extensively than the Hitachi, show any smart errors having ever been reported during use. Is the drive defective ? Or have the errors and occasional problems I have encountered occured because I am using a Sata 6.0 drive with a Sata 3.0 controller ? I am of course strongly tempted to RMA it to Hitachi, but they might respond that since the Smart quick and extended tests show no errors, there is nothing wrong with the drive and not replace it. But I am naturally worried it might still be defective and I do want to use it if it is actually working well. Some SATA drives have/had jumper blocks that included an option to "throttle" the drive back to an earlier SATA level. Does your Hitachi have that feature? I see a two-prong something to the right of the Sata connections, but the doc on the Hitachi website says nothing about it. |
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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
Edward Diener wrote:
I have a Sata 6.0 drive, an Hitachi GST Deskstar H3IK20003272SP, which strangely enough I have only used intermittently mostly for data backup. I have been using it on an older system ( circa 2008 ) whose Sata controller only supports Sata 3.0. I had experienced occasional problems in the past with the drive, a few times when backing up software and once when I tried installing a Linux distro to a partition on the drive, but had not been using it very much otherwise. Currently the drive is empty again but I was considering another installation ( Windows 8.0 for which I have an OEM version ) on the drive. The warranty period for the drive ends at the end of August, and Hitachi will honor the warranty since I checked on their RMA site. Running quick and extended smart tests on the drive show no errors, but when I also look at the errors that smart had reported against the drive I am told that there have been a total of 1856 different errors, of which I can see the last 5 reported in detail. None of my other hard drives, used much more extensively than the Hitachi, show any smart errors having ever been reported during use. What errors are these? Please post the full SMART report. Arno Is the drive defective ? Or have the errors and occasional problems I have encountered occured because I am using a Sata 6.0 drive with a Sata 3.0 controller ? I am of course strongly tempted to RMA it to Hitachi, but they might respond that since the Smart quick and extended tests show no errors, there is nothing wrong with the drive and not replace it. But I am naturally worried it might still be defective and I do want to use it if it is actually working well. |
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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
I've had crooked SATA data cables cause errors.
Get MHDD, available on The Ultimate Boot CD, and run a surface scan. It will show any sectors that are hard to read, but it's normal for it to report thousands of slow sectors per 1TB. Here are some typical results for nondefective drives: Hitachi 7200 RPM SATA 1TB 7K000.C: 3ms: 7,600,000 10ms: 6,500 50ms: 4,000 150ms: 4 500ms: 0 500ms: 0 At 7200 RPM, one spin takes 8ms. There's a Windows version of this diagnostic, HDDscan, but apparently Windows overhead makes it reports lots of false positives of up to 300ms. SATA drives automatically switch speeds to match the controller, and this seems to work well unless the controller was designed wrong, as was the case with VIA's chips made before about 2009. OTOH SATA 1.5 controllers from Promise, Silicon Image, and Intel worked fine with SATA 3 and 6 hard disks (I didn't try any SSD). Those controllers were vintage 2003. Some hard disks can be limited to SATA 1.5 speed with a jumper (Seagate, WD), but the Hitachi drives I've seen instead required running a utility, called Feature Tool. However it hasn't been updated from version 2.15 and doesn't seem to support SATA 6 drives. |
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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
On 7/31/2014 5:06 AM, Arno wrote:
Edward Diener wrote: I have a Sata 6.0 drive, an Hitachi GST Deskstar H3IK20003272SP, which strangely enough I have only used intermittently mostly for data backup. I have been using it on an older system ( circa 2008 ) whose Sata controller only supports Sata 3.0. I had experienced occasional problems in the past with the drive, a few times when backing up software and once when I tried installing a Linux distro to a partition on the drive, but had not been using it very much otherwise. Currently the drive is empty again but I was considering another installation ( Windows 8.0 for which I have an OEM version ) on the drive. The warranty period for the drive ends at the end of August, and Hitachi will honor the warranty since I checked on their RMA site. Running quick and extended smart tests on the drive show no errors, but when I also look at the errors that smart had reported against the drive I am told that there have been a total of 1856 different errors, of which I can see the last 5 reported in detail. None of my other hard drives, used much more extensively than the Hitachi, show any smart errors having ever been reported during use. What errors are these? Please post the full SMART report. I sent back the drive for a replacement, since it was still within warranty. When I get the new drive I will run the SMART tests and keep an eye on any existing errors that develiop. If the drive shows errors again in normal use I will report exactly what they are. Arno Is the drive defective ? Or have the errors and occasional problems I have encountered occured because I am using a Sata 6.0 drive with a Sata 3.0 controller ? I am of course strongly tempted to RMA it to Hitachi, but they might respond that since the Smart quick and extended tests show no errors, there is nothing wrong with the drive and not replace it. But I am naturally worried it might still be defective and I do want to use it if it is actually working well. |
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Drive errors for Sata 6.0 drive with Sata 3.0 hard disk controller
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