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fdbdude
sorry about the typos and grammar
my maxtor 120GB fdb (6Y120P0) failed in the most weirdest
possible way
i had used it for 1 year without any problem
and the "reallocated sector count" was zero, then i bought
a second maxtor (6Y120L0) and when installing it i had to
move the 6Y120P0 temporarily out of way, i didn't drop it or
bump it, just move it, and when i started the system, a
very long boottime ocurred and activesmart gave me
a warning, my 6Y120P0 suddenly had over 1500 reallocated sectors
on it, of course i was worried and i run somes testing
programs every day, i got a few more reallocated sectors over
the days after that but then the probem seemed to go a way
on it's own and everything was normal again for about
two weeks until yesterday when i decided to do something about
to the occasional resonances that the hdd's were making in my
system so i moved the drives and when i started pc
the 6Y120P0 came on with huge amount of reallocated
sectors instantly exceeding T.E.C condition,for just moving it.
the new 6Y120L0 was perfectly ok
then the drive failed. i tought that maybe the bearings had
worn out, what else could explain that normal handling of the
drive and moving it a few centimeters could cause this weird
behaviour, it cant be the heat because they had fan and temps
were allways under 35C
i opened the fdb bearing up and found that the little screw
that held the "bearing plate" with funny looking grooves, and
the spindle axel together had worked it self loose and that the
axel and bearing plate were not spinning together instead the axel
had just spinned against the bearing plate and axel had little
circular
wear marks on it's end.bearing must have lost some functionality
with that thing going on,im no bearing expert but overall the fdb
bearing looked like
the cheapest job imaginable, why didn't they make the axel and bearing
plate a one piece instead of two parts held togeheter by flimsy screw
and the bearing sleeve where the axel is spinning is manufacturd from,
can you believe it ???, ordinary BRASS, i mean if this bearing wears
everytime it starts and stops how about making it from a little
bit more wear resistant material than just brass
i simply wont believe that making this kind of bearing costs
more than ball bearing
if you have about 1 year old maxtor fdb drive take it out and
wiggle it a little bit in your hand (back it up first) then
put it back and look if the reallocated sector count has
increased, if it has the drive doesn't have much time left.
those maxtor fdb's may wear out suprisingly fast
naturally my trust in maxtor's drives hasn't increased with this
incident
my maxtor 120GB fdb (6Y120P0) failed in the most weirdest
possible way
i had used it for 1 year without any problem
and the "reallocated sector count" was zero, then i bought
a second maxtor (6Y120L0) and when installing it i had to
move the 6Y120P0 temporarily out of way, i didn't drop it or
bump it, just move it, and when i started the system, a
very long boottime ocurred and activesmart gave me
a warning, my 6Y120P0 suddenly had over 1500 reallocated sectors
on it, of course i was worried and i run somes testing
programs every day, i got a few more reallocated sectors over
the days after that but then the probem seemed to go a way
on it's own and everything was normal again for about
two weeks until yesterday when i decided to do something about
to the occasional resonances that the hdd's were making in my
system so i moved the drives and when i started pc
the 6Y120P0 came on with huge amount of reallocated
sectors instantly exceeding T.E.C condition,for just moving it.
the new 6Y120L0 was perfectly ok
then the drive failed. i tought that maybe the bearings had
worn out, what else could explain that normal handling of the
drive and moving it a few centimeters could cause this weird
behaviour, it cant be the heat because they had fan and temps
were allways under 35C
i opened the fdb bearing up and found that the little screw
that held the "bearing plate" with funny looking grooves, and
the spindle axel together had worked it self loose and that the
axel and bearing plate were not spinning together instead the axel
had just spinned against the bearing plate and axel had little
circular
wear marks on it's end.bearing must have lost some functionality
with that thing going on,im no bearing expert but overall the fdb
bearing looked like
the cheapest job imaginable, why didn't they make the axel and bearing
plate a one piece instead of two parts held togeheter by flimsy screw
and the bearing sleeve where the axel is spinning is manufacturd from,
can you believe it ???, ordinary BRASS, i mean if this bearing wears
everytime it starts and stops how about making it from a little
bit more wear resistant material than just brass
i simply wont believe that making this kind of bearing costs
more than ball bearing
if you have about 1 year old maxtor fdb drive take it out and
wiggle it a little bit in your hand (back it up first) then
put it back and look if the reallocated sector count has
increased, if it has the drive doesn't have much time left.
those maxtor fdb's may wear out suprisingly fast
naturally my trust in maxtor's drives hasn't increased with this
incident