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cyberwarfare said:
^it should. give it a try. no harm :)
has helped me a whole load of times
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HDD got detected in post BIOS screen in some AHCI drive list. I could see few drives when it booted but within 20-30 secs all drives vanished and HDD again became un-detected. Looks bad power port on HDD or something.
 
vyral_143 said:
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HDD got detected in post BIOS screen in some AHCI drive list. I could see few drives when it booted but within 20-30 secs all drives vanished and HDD again became un-detected. Looks bad power port on HDD or something.
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Can anybody throw some light on behavior of 1TB Green ? So as how to move forward to fix this.

For further part I m also looking to get 2*2TB of WD AV-GP series and RAID them as suggested by cyberwarfare

Tagging ALPHA17
 
vyral_143 said:
Can anybody throw some light on behavior of 1TB Green ? So as how to move forward to fix this.
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Change the port and cable going to the 1TB.

After that check if it is still detected in the BIOS, if yes then try to see if the data can be seen in an Live OS run using a Live OS disc.

To get a Live Disc, get Home | Ubuntu OR Puppy Linux Community Home - Getting Started, burn on appropriate media.

If the hard-drive is visible there as well, save your data (in order, precious > not so necessary). Then RMA the drive. To cover any residual data, shred the hard-drive.

If this fails I suggest you seek towards professional help.

Hope this helps, Cheerio!
 
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ALPHA17 said:
Change the port and cable going to the 1TB.

After that check if it is still detected in the BIOS, if yes then try to see if the data can be seen in an Live OS run using a Live OS disc.

To get a Live Disc, get Home | Ubuntu OR Puppy Linux Community Home - Getting Started, burn on appropriate media.

If the hard-drive is visible there as well, save your data (in order, precious > not so necessary). Then RMA the drive. To cover any residual data, shred the hard-drive.

If this fails I suggest you seek towards professional help.

Hope this helps, Cheerio!
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Thanks sire for a really quick reply. I have tried changing SATA Cable/Ports and Power cable. On same SATA Port/Cable and Power cable my WD 500GB Blue is working good. However will try Live Disc thing next.

In mean while I called up WD about the issue. They had similar troubleshooting of changing cables and port but since I had already tried that, final word from them is backup all your data if you can, even 3rd party service allowed, and then RMA the drive.

Also ALPHA17 WD AV-GP 2*2TB in RAID are good to go ? Main requirement is reliability and data safety.

Update: tried with LInux Live Disc, same sequence of events. HDD detected in BIOS and in OS also for few mins before disappearing.
 
vyral_143 said:
Update: tried with LInux Live Disc, same sequence of events. HDD detected in BIOS and in OS also for few mins before disappearing.
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Hmmm... something is wrong with the power conduit then. Maybe the controller has been damaged OR something of that magnitude, honestly I would not know.

The hard-drives you have short-listed seem okay. Once you get them check the batch serials for any known issues. Cheerio!
 
ALPHA17 said:
Hmmm... something is wrong with the power conduit then. Maybe the controller has been damaged OR something of that magnitude, honestly I would not know.

The hard-drives you have short-listed seem okay. Once you get them check the batch serials for any known issues. Cheerio!
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Looks like same, some power related issues.

I have not yet ordered AV-GP drives but on doing bit google-ing, found its another version of Green drives with RAID support. So I m again skeptical about buying it. Should I go ahead and get them ? or something else is also in store like WD Red mentioned by @6pack and available 1TB and 3TB versions for 5600 and 10K at theitdepot?
 
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vyral_143 said:
I have not yet ordered AV-GP drives but on doing bit google-ing, found its another version of Green drives with RAID support. So I m again skeptical about buying it. Should I go ahead and get them ? or something else is also in store like WD Red mentioned by @6pack and available 1TB and 3TB versions for 5600 and 10K at theitdepot?
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Are they ~5400 RPM OR ~7200RPM models? This is with respect to the AV-GP drives.

Red's are more reliable, try to contact Western Digital India and see if they can direct you appropriately.
 
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ALPHA17 said:
Are they ~5400 RPM OR ~7200RPM models? This is with respect to the AV-GP drives.

Red's are more reliable, try to contact Western Digital India and see if they can direct you appropriately.
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They are 5400rpm one. On theitdepot 2TB is selling for Rs.7210, not sure if this is a good price or not.

tagging @6pack as he has knowledge and preference about WD Red drives
 
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i need to upgrade my HDD's and went for WD Black 1 TB 's .. incase you are looking for 2 tb , better get 2 black 1TB's ....
 
WD Red 2*2TB in RAID is what I have finalized, would be placing order as soon theitdepot site comes to life again.
 
Mr.J said:
Red drives are available in India?
What is the price?
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They are available on both Primeabgb and theitdepot, Prime only has the 3TB variant listed.

Western+Digital+Red+2TB+SATA+Internal+Desktop+NAS+Hard+Drive+(WD20EFRX) 2TB @ 7.2K+shipping

http://www.primeabgb.com/ 3TB @ 10.1K

They have 3 yr warranty and cost just a bit(~1.6K) more than the greens of the same capacity, but are designed specifically for NAS/RAID usage. These are not for single usage in PCs, I came across quite a few opinions online mentioning that.
 
axis.meister said:
but are designed specifically for NAS/RAID usage. These are not for single usage in PCs
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Why not? bottle uses these as single non-RAID drives in his PC just fine. Although you're not using the RAID feature set, the additional warranty and hopefully better design/QC should still be worth it.

Edit: If you mean these shouldn't be used as primary boot drives, then yeah thats understood since they aren't fast 7200rpm drives. But anyone buying 2TB drives will be using it as a secondary data dump drive.
 
Crazy_Eddy said:
Why not? bottle uses these as single non-RAID drives in his PC just fine. Although you're not using the RAID feature set, the additional warranty and hopefully better design/QC should still be worth it.

Edit: If you mean these shouldn't be used as primary boot drives, then yeah thats understood since they aren't fast 7200rpm drives. But anyone buying 2TB drives will be using it as a secondary data dump drive.
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Yup, not to be used as single(read: boot) drives. Thanks for clearing that, I now realize what I said might have been confusing.
 
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