IMHO, both are in the "okay" quality.

Hello forumers, I really got a weird problem which I found it ridiculous. I never experience or heard about cases like these before.

I recently bought a Western Digital 2.5" 60GB HDD. I use the HDD in a cheap external casing mainly for storage porpose with use with my laptop. After a few days, I found that the HDD will seem to stop responding if I touch(i mean gently touch) the casing. Moreover, the data will be badly corrupted if I transfer files while touching the HDD's casing. The data will be 1-5% corrupted if I do not touch it. Then I checked more in detail. The HDD will not be detected if I place it on the floor. Once in a while, a "Delayed Write Failure" message will popup in the taskbar and I need to reconnect the HDD to the computer.

Out of all these problem, I went to the shop and I complained. After all the checking, I was amazed that HDD worked as if it is the best in the world without a problem even on my own laptop(which I am using). Conclusion, the HDD and its enclosure is 100% working.

To make the story short, I found that the HDD works perfectly if I use batteries only on the laptop. Whenever I use the adapter, the HDD gives problem. It is against the myth that batteries may not provide sufficient power to the HDD.

I know my problem is lengthy but give me some suggestions. I never seen such weird problem for all these years of computing. Sorry for being lengthy and thanks for helping...

sniper on the roof,
hmm... quite amazing... I tried using WD diagnostic tools when problem occurred and it also showed Cable Test Failed. But now I found that the laptop adaptor is causing problems. Crap.... I don't know if this is a related problem, all the CDs that I burned using the laptop is corrupted. I sent the burner for RMA(using batteries too) and the same thing happened. It burned CDs without a single error. I was wondering if it is problem with my CDs or the adaptor. I feel like opening the adaptor. Grall....

Btw, is there any suggestions or is it I have to dump the adaptor into the bin?

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Feb 3 2006, 12:24 AM

All modern HDD has resistance to magnet to many thousand gauss. At most time, HDD will never be affected by magnets.

This post has been edited by lex: Feb 13 2006, 11:44 AM

I just plugged in my 2.5" WD HDD into the laptop to check it's SMART status. Everything looks ok but there are 115 Reallocated Sector Count. Speedfan online diagnostic adviced me to backup data and get a new disk. This disk was actually used in a problematic HDD enclosure. Does this mean that my HDD is dying? Maybe because of my lousy cheapskate enclosure, it has caused the reallocation. Can I un-reallocate the sectors by writing zero or formatting?

p/s: Don't use cheapskate enclosures.. They give headaches.

Wa... that disk is less than 6 months and it cost me 300++ for that 60GB. To RMA, there is not enough reallocated sector count, I think.

Lifetime warranty? Is there any manufacturer providing lifetime warranty for HDD? If you bought it from a shop, the shop will help you RMA in the 1st year. Other remaining years, you'll have to pay the shop or send the HDD yourself.

Possible. Especially if the HDD is being accessed(read/write), the blackout may cause a scratch on the platter thus damaging the disk. But so far, for me, I have not encountered such problem.

Yes! I'm using North Bridge: Intel® 855GME, South Bridge: ICH4-M. There are 3 drivers. atapi.sys, intelide.sys and pciidex.sys. I already have intelide.sys in this case. So, what should I do? Ah, you should have appeared earlier. I have actually solved this problem by buying a new RM 50 enclosure. The cap ayam enclosure is in my desk.

Edit: Oops... the driver that you mentioned is pciide.sys but mine is pciidex.sys

This post has been edited by mengsuan: Jun 21 2006, 03:36 PM

Throw it down the building. Give it a pepsi treat. Cook it in the microwave oven with your maggi mee. You can do so many things to destroy it. An alternative to let the HDD go, give it to me and you'll never see it again.

No. Our HDD are not in vacuum. There are small little holes with filter if you have closely inspected your HDD. As long as the temperature change is not great (>10C), there won't be any problem.

Only if the converter is a bad one. Otherwise, it works perfectly fine.

Nothing lasts forever. You should always keep a backup of your data.