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After a bit more forum searching I've found that the health reporting from HD Tune and the Reallocated Sector Count warning should be ignored for my OCZ Vertex 2 SSD. Something to do with the S.M.A.R.T info being incorrectly read. Seems this is very common complaint on the OCZ forum. Hopefully...

OK Just tried copying a large folder of MP3s to the faulty drive on the alternative PC and almost immediately win Xp lost the drive again. Surely this must be faulty? Only thing I haven't tried yet is a different cable. But surely formatting and chkdsk wouldn't have worked or there would be...

Hi Again Once again thanks for all your comments, I've tried a few things. Summary: One of my Samsung HDDs still has warnings from HD Tune even when connected to a different PC. The Other is working fine on the new GB Mobo. The SSD is probably fine on the new GB MoBo but I need to test to be...

Thanks again for all of your comments. I'll put it all to the test. I'll post later what HD tune is saying about the SSD and if anyone has the time to comment I'd be very interested to see what the problem might indicate and if there is a real problem with the SSD. thanks

Hi djbrad Thanks for the message. Good to know it's nothing I've done that has caused it. I've already tried it in another PC and got the utility running but it then said this model is not supported unfortunately. It's not listed on the Samsung website. I think because it's one of the latest...

Hi Thanks for all of this. I will try all over the weekend. To add to this in response to some of these comments. Last night I downloaded the trail of HD Tune Pro and did a surface scan of the drive in question and it discovered a couple of bad blocks. There were some warnings flagged in the...

Thanks juggy I will run chkdsk and see if that flags anything up. I downloaded the HD Tune trial last night. I ran the surface scan and it picked up a few bad blocks. I'm not sure if these have come from when I initial set up of the drive in a RAID 0 maybe. I only did a quick format which I...

Hi I've recently completed a new build based on a X58A-UD3R thanks to this forum and it's very helpful members. I have a problem though with one of the hard drives. Both are brand new. I have 1 SSD and 2 Samsung HD103SJ Hard Drives connected to the ICH10R SATA controller set to AHCI mode. The...

Hi I've recently installed a pair of Samsung 1TB drives (HD103SJ) as data drives in a new system. Initially I set them up in RAID 0 but the Intel monitoring software flagged that there was a problem with one of them, didn't give much info though. I took them out of raid and set up as 2 separate...

Cheers bilbat If I set the ICH controller mode to RAID then so I can put the 2 HDDs in raid 0 will the SSD operate OK seeing as it should be set to AHCI mode for the SSD? Many thanks for you comments.

Hi I posted this in another related thread but I think it'll probably get missed so I'm posting in a new one, hope that's OK. I've just taken delivery of a GA-X58A-UD3R board and am building today. I've been reading threads to see if I can find an answer but not quite found what I'm...

Hi Sorry to jump in on this. I've just taken delivery of this board and building today. :D I've been reading this thread to see if it will help with a similar query but I'm still not quite sure of the best way for me to connect my SATA devices. This is what i have to connect: 1x SSD...