Recent content by Gathaven

Smart report?

Any chance you're booting from a Windows 7 CD on a USB flash drive? This is a known issue that has caused me much grief, and to this day I still have no idea why. I'm sure someone else will happily reply to you with a long list of steps for the huge amounts of different ways you can test it...

Based on this warning:- *The storage capacity may differ by country and region. Please contact your local dealers or retailers for the latest product information. It leads me believe that those configurations are only the configurations that they sell, not the ones you can upgrade to after...

For a few dollars more, you can probably get a 1TB drive. Here's an example of a WD Blue 1TB going for $40 from Best Buy, admittedly that sale is now over, but you get the point.

To be able to correctly debate this, we're going to need the "lots of technical terms that you have forgotten", but without anything to really argue against rather than "3TBs are worse than anything else", I'm going to say I've not experienced this. If you can provide the "technical terms" he...

Going to be super short with this:- 1. Have dead drive 2. Self-admitted smart failure[0] 3. Create RMA with WD 4. Stupidly think to myself "Oh well, might as well try and get S.M.A.R.T. to fix itself" 5. Drive now works 6. I still want to RMA it[1], unsure if WD will accept 7. Admittedly, it's...