Emergency need help With dying HDD

[WerewolfX]

Hi all,

Very recently (Today) My Western Digital 80BB wich is only a year old began making a very audible (louder than 5 case fans) humming sound - sounds. Am am very sure that it is about to DIE! Im going to Rma the sucker but I need to get an hdd to replace it in the mean time. I need your experience and advice wich would be the best / Fastest / most reliable HDD to OC with.

Plz help.

Thanks in advance.

 

[WerewolfX]

Oh no I may not be able to RMA it.

According to WD's online RMA system it says my hdd has no warantee this is bad.:disgust:

 

[SuperSix]

No warranty? Where did you buy it? Sounds like you got stuck with an export-only drive..

*I* prefer Maxtor...

 

[WerewolfX]

I purchased the drive from Syntech computers in flushing NY USA. I hope it is not an export drive otherwise i will see if i can sue their asses off.

Yes i'm just evil enough to do it too.

 

[cholley]

thats a western dog for ya

newegg.com has the 7200 rpm ata133 80gig maxtor for $107 with free fedex

 

[WerewolfX]

Thnx but how does it OC?

 

[WerewolfX]

I rechecked my hdd's serno on WD online warantee service and it came up as having a warantee. I made a typo substituting a S for a 5.

Well that make's me feel better but I still need a new drive to backup onto. Preferably a good OC'er because im going to make my old WD's in to a reduntant NAS device with an old Athlon 1.33 i have lying around.

 

[Whitney]

I just RMA'd a brand new MAxtor 80gig Liquid drive because it was making hideous noises right out of the box. Replaced it with the WD80, 8meg. which is totally silent.

It may all be just a matter of luck.

 

[WerewolfX]

Well my drive was running completly silent for over a year i believe it is due to the fact that it is failing. Ive probably had well over 500TB of data transferred on and off of it. Found out today i can RMA it and I will once i get my backup hdd.