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Well I have these
1,2,3,4 PC's run all day in a shop (POS)
all run Windows 8.1 Pro. only 50GB allocated to C:\ and 10GB to D:\ , though they have 500GB HDD.
1) had a HDD fail in the 1st 6 months of pc building. WD->WD RMA'ed. now out of warranty.now its stable.
2) had a HDD failure in year 2011.Seagate->WD, soon zebronics PSU failed and it got replaced by a MERCURY 450W
3) had 3 HDD failures in years 10-12.Seagate-> Seagate RMAed now its OK.
4) always failing. before used to run a very old Seagate 120 which was way too old(7-8 years) and failed in 2012. drive changed to another old seagate. again fail in 6 months.now TOSHIBA AV HDD in 90 days it failed. I did a full format as it had pending sectors(something like that) and it was functional and now after 15 days again pending sector count is climbing.
a TOSHIBA AV 1TB HDD used a HIKVISION DVR(24x7 CCTV) is sending me HDD SMART ERROR and HDD FAIL emails to me(configured to send in case of any problem automatically)
a SEAGATE 500gb HDD(taken at some point from above builds and RMA'ed is failing in another HIKVISION DVR. though WD 500gb(new 2012) is reported fine.(it has both drives)
5) Seagate 500GB(OS Drive) failed, when i was using Zebronics 400W PLATINUM PSU(I didn't know about PSU's at that time)
so RMA'ed and again failed so changed to mercury 450W and added a 1000GB seagate (2012). was stable. but wanted to make sure and got CX430V2
rock solid..mercury PSU moved on to config no.2
I might have missed something, I mean any other hdd failure, sorry
now this 5 is replacement of 4. Seagate 1000GB + Samsung 120GB
using 4 as HTPC.
so I am really bothered about HDD failures...always should backup daily.
the POS software running on PC's are very light, designed back in 1997 on win 97 but runs great in Win8.1 in 2014
so is the PSU the culprit?(Zebronics 400W)
ya i know it is not recommended and its a bad psu, but this a very light build and not power consuming, no dvd drives even...
before there were square wave ups'es(800va-1kva) for all PC's except one in house.
the power input is also very high frequently @ 1 &2. so we got a stabilizer and pure sinewave NIXOWN Inverters for whole shop, including TVS dot matrix printers without ups..
at 3, a luminous squate wave inverter 800va with a 500va ups for transfer delay is running...this is also quite stable,.
at 4, a pure sinewave amararaja amaron 800va inverter is running directly to pc but still failre rates are high.
the same model in my home is handing the 6 config streaming to 5,Pioneer AV receiver, bravia tv at a time, without any issues..
wow, i have a 6TB of storage...
Code:
. Motherboard: Processor: RAM: HDD: PSU
1 GIGABYTE GA-H61M-D2H Intel Pentium G620 @ 2.60GHz 2 GB G.SKILL WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 CORSAIR CX430V2
2 ASUS P5KPL-CM Intel Core 2 Duo E5200 @ 2.5GHz 2 GB TRANSCEND Seagate ST500DM002-1BD142 Mercury 450 Watt
3 HI-COM Intel Pentium E5300 @ 2.60GHz 1 GB HYNIX WDC WD5000AAKX-001CA0 Zebronics 400 Watt
4 Intel DG31PR Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz 1 GB TRANSCEND TOSHIBA DT01ABA100V Zebronics 400 Watt
5 GIGABYTE GA-MA78GM-S2HP AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ 2.40 GHz 3 GB TRANSCEND SAMSUNG 840 EVO SSD CORSAIR CX430V2
6 GIGABYTE GA-970A-DS3P AMD FX 6300 3.5GHz 4 GB CORSAIR SAMSUNG 840 EVO SSD CORSAIR CX430V2
SEAGATE ST31000524AS
TOSHIBA DT01ABA100V1,2,3,4 PC's run all day in a shop (POS)
all run Windows 8.1 Pro. only 50GB allocated to C:\ and 10GB to D:\ , though they have 500GB HDD.
1) had a HDD fail in the 1st 6 months of pc building. WD->WD RMA'ed. now out of warranty.now its stable.
2) had a HDD failure in year 2011.Seagate->WD, soon zebronics PSU failed and it got replaced by a MERCURY 450W
3) had 3 HDD failures in years 10-12.Seagate-> Seagate RMAed now its OK.
4) always failing. before used to run a very old Seagate 120 which was way too old(7-8 years) and failed in 2012. drive changed to another old seagate. again fail in 6 months.now TOSHIBA AV HDD in 90 days it failed. I did a full format as it had pending sectors(something like that) and it was functional and now after 15 days again pending sector count is climbing.
a TOSHIBA AV 1TB HDD used a HIKVISION DVR(24x7 CCTV) is sending me HDD SMART ERROR and HDD FAIL emails to me(configured to send in case of any problem automatically)
a SEAGATE 500gb HDD(taken at some point from above builds and RMA'ed is failing in another HIKVISION DVR. though WD 500gb(new 2012) is reported fine.(it has both drives)
5) Seagate 500GB(OS Drive) failed, when i was using Zebronics 400W PLATINUM PSU(I didn't know about PSU's at that time)
so RMA'ed and again failed so changed to mercury 450W and added a 1000GB seagate (2012). was stable. but wanted to make sure and got CX430V2
rock solid..mercury PSU moved on to config no.2I might have missed something, I mean any other hdd failure, sorry
now this 5 is replacement of 4. Seagate 1000GB + Samsung 120GB
using 4 as HTPC.
so I am really bothered about HDD failures...always should backup daily.
the POS software running on PC's are very light, designed back in 1997 on win 97 but runs great in Win8.1 in 2014
so is the PSU the culprit?(Zebronics 400W)
ya i know it is not recommended and its a bad psu, but this a very light build and not power consuming, no dvd drives even...
before there were square wave ups'es(800va-1kva) for all PC's except one in house.
the power input is also very high frequently @ 1 &2. so we got a stabilizer and pure sinewave NIXOWN Inverters for whole shop, including TVS dot matrix printers without ups..
at 3, a luminous squate wave inverter 800va with a 500va ups for transfer delay is running...this is also quite stable,.
at 4, a pure sinewave amararaja amaron 800va inverter is running directly to pc but still failre rates are high.
the same model in my home is handing the 6 config streaming to 5,Pioneer AV receiver, bravia tv at a time, without any issues..
wow, i have a 6TB of storage...