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I guess its just me then. Ive tried a new cable and nothing.
I guess its just me then. Ive tried a new cable and nothing.
Horse Pucky! WD does not have a higher failure rate than any of the major HHD manufacturers. You may see more posts about WD...becuse there are more WD drives being used. Most HHD problems come back to the user, user runs high temps, poor computer practices, and under powered PSU's causing pending sector counts or other problems.
Out of the nine current HHD's I have running, five are WD. I have a very old 40gb WD that still runs at perfect health.
Yes, you can test the HD in another PC as long as you have an available Sata data and power connection available.
It doesn't have to be the "Boot/OS" drive, just connect it as another disk drive and test it with HD Tune.
With a min transfer rate of 1.6 MB/sec, something is wrong imho.
I find it hard to believe you would get 3 hard drives with the same problem, so testing in another PC would eliminate your current OS/Software as the cause of this problem (if it is a hardware problem).
Compare your screen print in post#1 to what you see on HD Tune website for the Blue Transfer Rate data.
I wont be able to test the HDD until Saturday.
Any chance my RAM could cause HDD issues? I wouldnt know ive never had a faulty RAM stick as of yet. And testing RAM properly takes a bloody while.
Well I gotta say I don't know where this comes from. I have been running many WD drivers for over a decade and they don't "crash".
The black drives are kind of loud - they are meant for performance. I have older ones that support AAM and run mine in lower acoustic mode where they are pretty quiet. This impacts the access tim though as the heads position more slowly to reduce noise.
You can boot Windows in Safe Mode and run HD Tune to see if that makes a difference.
Testing in Safe Mode could eliminate a lot of your "Software/configuration" as the cause of a transfer rate issue.
It's something you can test, without waiting to attach the HD to a different PC for testing.
Use Option ONE in Safe Mode