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I think I've solved my Spin Retry Count problem
I have stated previously that I have an older drive that seems to get a
lot of Spin Retry Counts in SMART, but other than that it's rock solid: it has outlasted a whole bunch of newer drives that were previously giving no error messages whatsoever in SMART. Well, it looks like I've now also solved its Spin Retries too. Here's the older thread for reference: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage | Google Groups http://groups.google.com/group/comp....n+spin+retr y Well anyway, what I did recently was that I converted two of those old IDE drives into SATA drives using an IDE-to-SATA converter board that fits right onto the back of the drives themselves. I started noticing that the Spin Retries were gone about two weeks ago, but that was only a week after I installed them, so I didn't want to say anything until I saw a bit more time pass. Well, it's now the three week mark, and I haven't seen any additional spin retries! 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 had previously suspected the IDE cables to be the culprits, so I did change them, but that didn't help any at that time. So at that point I began suspecting the drive itself was getting old (which it is). Looks like now that it's going through SATA cables instead of IDE ones, that the cables were the culprit, even with the newer IDE cables. I'm not sure if this is endemic to IDE cables in general, or if it was just two bad IDE cables in a row. Yousuf Khan |
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