Respect !!!

[az]

Sorry, but I fail to see the context - or do you mean my drive is dying?

AZ

[Indiana]

az, unforuntuntely that's how it began when my two IBM (I had 6 of them , now they're only four left..) HDs started to die . Fist seldom/random errors, then one drive would only want to start up every second power-on (giving the "Click of death" ™ by Wombat on the other power-ons), then they failed at all.

[PowerHungry]

I've got 3 IBM 60 GXP's for almost as long as they have been out, running 24x7 in my main machine and I have not had a single read, write, access, detection, click error. They also always had an 80 mm fan blowing on them and they never get above room temp. I was going to get the 120 GXP for a large drive, until IBM sold thier HD division. Now I'm gonna wait.

[xortam]

I've never lost a drive (knock on wood) and I've got several IBM drives as well as Maxtor and Quantum; note, they're all SCSI drives.

[High_Jumbllama]

Only once.

Only once have I lost a drive (691MB) and it was replaced with a 1GB drive under warranty at my house within 3 days.

[WayneHu]

Originally posted by az
I'm running a 60 GXP and just recently CPUCool gave me a message that some smart value decreased from 100 to 99... I think it was data errors or something. I did overclock slightly at the time, don't do anymore.

Can anyone tell me if this is a sign of the HD dying, or if it is due to the FSB running at 112, therefore (or therefor?) overclocking PCI, AGP, etc.?

AZ

It depends on the chipset configuration. But it is most likely YES at 112 MHz.

In my experience, the only overclockable item with long term use is the CPU due to the fact that it might be actually Underclocked by the manufacturer. Celeron 300A, PII-266 SL2W7, PII-300 SL2W8, some of PIII-550, P4-1.6A are the general cases.

My G400DH was bought in Sep 1999. Another G400SH picked up from the old discarded machine was also manufactured at the same period. During the past three years, my G400DH was running at 82.2 or 89.9 MHz for 1 years. Then it is no longer able to run AGP 2x at 66.6 MHz. The video singal quality is also degraded. Instead, my G400SH works fine at AGP 2x. The video signal is still good and the image is still sharper than nVidia's new chipsets because it was never overclocked.

For the real businesss or 24hr online purposed usage, it is not worthy to run the equipments out of the manufacturer's spec just for the reason to save few bucks.

[fav]

az: I'm running a 60 GXP and just recently CPUCool gave me a message that some smart value decreased from 100 to 99...

Just forget about this stuff. It's not have any significance at all until it passed a threshold specified for this parameter.

I had same S.M.A.R.T degradation by few points on my local 8Gb FUJITSU drive (which I use as a portable floppy disk). Still works FINE after 3 years of data transfer, mechanical attach/detach procedures and harsh movements from a site to a site.

Sadly, it can't be recognized by fresh brand new 845DW mainboard BIOS, don't know why. Maybe, Dr Morbid can explain? Don't count some nasty problems with a UDMA incorrect behaviour and lockups running on old VIA MVP3 based motherboard when using it, bla-bla-bla, 'ld times bla-bla-bla.

[Belwarrior]

I've had a few (5 or 6) IBM Drives die on me.. and my own 46GB just got RMAed. One thing i noticed is that these problems occurs to IBM Hdds larger than 35GB. I suspect it is due to heat-related problems as after the first few started to die and i cant figure out any cause (VIA SB chipset, IDE cables, Powersupply etc), I got a simple cooling kit (5.25 bay with 3 small fans drawing heat out) and the rest of the Hdds are happily humming along now..