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I posted a couple of days ago about it looking like one of my new 750GB Blacks was DOA (
http://www.overclock.net/hard-drives...54-hd-doa.html ). While waiting for Monday to roll around to send it back to Newegg I had the itch to try it again, and wound up kicking myself once I figured out why I was having trouble the first time around. It appears the second drive is fine. In looking over what happened, it seems that I was dealing with a recurrence of BIOS problem that I've had with the last release of the IP35-E BIOS. It will sometimes hang on startup with it seeming like the disk is just not getting off the ground. I've had this happen before with my current drive. That plus I think my SATA5 and 6 ports are acting weird. Don't get me started on why it didn't work in the external enclosure (it was one I had borrowed not knowing it needed an outboard power supply
).
Long story short the drive does seem to work. I ran HDTune against it and compared it to the first one. Need expert opinions on this.
- Should I be worried that the Read and Write curves for the second drive appear more "jagged" than the first?
- Do these readouts suggest that both drives are working fine and within expectations?
Next message has the remaining test results.
