Critical issues with WD green drives

Andrea Venturoli ml at netfence.it
Thu Jun 2 16:09:55 UTC 2011


On 06/02/11 18:02, Reid Linnemann wrote:

> I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power supply. After
> an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over the place. I
> replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, and when
> the machine got stable finally I just tried to leave it alone. Finally
> I bought a new atom board, thinking that some component on the
> mainboard had been killed by the storm. Problems persisted until my
> mini-itx case came in with a fresh (less powerful) power supply.
>

Thanks, but in my case this is unlikely.
I have reduntant power supplies and 4 SAS drives which work flawlessly.
Only the two SATA have problems.

  bye & Thanks
	av.


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