Well, this is just lovely.
Have had this drive installed for less than 2 weeks, and I'm already getting errors.
Specifically, windows seems to think that there are bad sectors according to event viewer.
Ran the maxtor diagnostics, came back with a SMART failure code of 898F44. Of cource, maxtor
has no information on what this means, so looks like RMA time.
Few days ago, when accessing some files, drive took what appeared to be a very long time to perform a DIR (in dos).
normally, this takes all of 1/2 sec or less to do. This time it took prob 10-15 seconds or longer. Didn't think anything of it at the time.
Next reboot (this morning), adaptec controller comes back with an error "SMART ERROR THRESHOLD EXCEEDED ON DEVICE ID:xx"
Never seen that one before.
What I did notice unusual, from day 1, was that when powering down, the drive made an unusual growling sound (dry bearing?).
None of the other drives in the enclosure ever made a sound like that.
We'll see how long the replacement lasts... Frankly, with all the maxtor RMA's I've done in the last 6 months (at least 5 or 6, from various machines), I'm losing confidence in maxtor quality.