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    Any way to test SATA ports?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by MogRules, May 9, 2016.

  1. MogRules

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    Does anyone know of a way to test the SATA ports for the HDD bays? I have had three 750 GB WD black drives go on me in the last year so I am starting to really suspect something else is happening here aside from just WD not being as reliable as I remember. The drives keep failing with bad sectors. Both my mSATA and the SSD are working perfectly.
     
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    what i use is more of a drive checker partedmagic (its $9) to check HDD's & SSD's, need to burn it to a disc and boot from the disk. It has good drive checking tools i've had a few disk drives go on me in my m17x r4 (always in the middle center slot) so moved to using all ssd's and had no issues since
     
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    As much as I would love to do that I just can't justify the $500 for the 1tb SSD still :p
     
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    yeah i understand i believe when they were failing for me it was with due to it getting to hot (that HDD slot being right next to the gpu) ill boot up partedmagic later & see if it still has the test results you can save them don't remeber if i did or it just saves them to the drive
     
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    someone that i look up to for advice was recently telling me of a pending class action lawsuit against WD and implied that 25% of all new non SSD drives are failing in under a year.

    if you click this link and add the 1 and 2 star reviews and count those as failed drives, you'll see 21% are failed drives. you aren't alone.
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...026&cm_re=750_gb_black-_-22-236-561-_-Product
    not that i know for sure this IS your exact model though.

    it did sound a little wacky to me, but the guy has always been on point in the past. he is a pilot that trains DEA pilots and fixes business computer systems, i make signs. so just my 2¢
     
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