Bad Day for HTS545032B9SA02 Hard Drives

[Jared]

I've had two of these drives show up today, one with damaged P-List and another with just a lot of bad sectors. Both, are imaging now at good speed in DE. Funny how the same drives seem to fail all at the same time.

 

[pclab]

You are getting easy jobs ahahahahah

 

[Jared]

The one with the damaged P-list wasn't so easy. Had a lot of damaged SA modules, and at first couldn't even read the P-list module through composite reading. Eventually with enough tries, I was able to get enough of the module that the only unread part was near the end where it's all zeros. It surprised me when the checksum actually passed. I had only given the customer 50/50 odds, because I wasn't sure I could get a working P-list or not.

 

[Jared]

More Hitachis showing up today. Not the same model, but close. And they all seem to be recoverable, I'm loving it. I think I need to market more toward just doing these and leave the Seagate nightmares to someone else.

 

[jol]

congrats,
BTW

Not the same model, but close.

what models ?

 

[Jared]

Well, this last one to show up is actually an IDE one. HTS541080G9AT00. They've all had bad sectors, but not bad all in all.

 

[LarrySabo]

Easy money, but you pay your dues on other, for sure.

 

[Jared]

OH YEAH! Pay, and pay and pay. Haha, got my butt handed to me this week by a Toshiba no less. Strangely the Samsung and Seagate DM's have been pretty cooperative the last few weeks.

 

[Jared]

Just started another one, HTS545050A7E362. I don't know what's going on here, but I like it. Keep the Hitachi's coming.

 

[pclab]

Today I also got a 160GB Hitachi with some bad sectors. Imaged all just fine.

Off topic: I'm a post-a-holic now :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: