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Ah geez, good memories in this thread. I need to stop in here more often. :)

Sounds to me like you may be having cable issues, and your drive may be fine. CRC errors are usually generated by noise on the cables. Try reseating them and see if that helps at all. Also, is this SATA or PATA?

I just worked at it for a while using just some water and eventually got them on. You could try using a little antifreeze (or whatever your additive of choice is) since you're probably going to have that in your loop anyway. They usually seem to be a little slippery.

Geez, I haven't logged into the forums in 2 months, and nothing has changed. :( For the every day user, ALL BRANDS are equally reliable. The DPPM numbers are so low for any given manufacturer, your chances of getting a "busted" one out of the chute vary by tenths to hundreds of a percent...

Also, don't forget possible IOEDC data, in addition to the ECC data. That can be 2+ bytes as well - although to the end user this is treated the same as the regular ECC data. There are drives out there that employ 1k sector size, and transitioning to 4k sector sizes as well. /edit: oh...

Drives that support SATAII should be backwards compatible with SATA. You shouldn't have any problems using your current drives and cables with your new motherboard. It's doubtful that you would be able to saturate the 1.5gbps capabilities of standard SATA anyway, so unless you really need...

Yeah... back it up ASAP and get a new one. Doesn't sound good anyway... Have you checked the SMART counters or any other IBM diags or anything?

Yeah, even though he hasn't been around the forums for a couple years, it's good to see he's been keeping up with the actual folding the entire time. Hope to see him back here someday, but until then... fold on!

Ah man, what a great animation. We've been having a good time with that at work for a year+ now. :)

No need to feel stupid - sometimes overclocking is something we all take for granted. Just be glad you figured out that the problem was easy to fix. :)

Good call. Windows has its own timer that it uses and will then issue a standby immediate. However, if you set it up in the BIOS, it will set the standby timer on the drive and it will spin down on its own without any intervention from the OS. Definitely something to check...

Do you have the drive set to spin down in Windows? Anything would take a while if it is spinning down right after you do something, and then it has to spin right back up again. Also, have you run SMART diagnostics on the drive to make sure that it is passing all self tests?

I didn't think anyone used that either, until a couple years ago. I come to work, and I see all kinds of people using it here. F'n weird, if you ask me.

Yep - 417ppd. That's generally the site I use as well. I do look at hf.com a lot too though. Not sure about any other ones.

even if they do, I doubt I'll be getting them back. Possible though... we'll see.

Seagate bought maxtor, therefore they own all of our property now. Hopefully, if I end up getting a job over there, I'll be able to start up again at the new site. We'll have to wait an see though - first comes employment, then folding. ;)

Welp, looks like I'm down to 3 computers folding now. 3000+ Venice and 2 2500+ Bartons. Looks like Seagate is coming to seize most of our assets at work next week, which means my folding boxes go bye-bye. Twas fun while it lasted, and hopefully I'll be able to start again in the somewhat near...

I seem to be around 1k/day, give or take a few. How I long for the days of QMD's... ;)

Ah, great article. Bout time someone went and proved the minimal impact that folding has on your PC performance. Thanks for the linkage marty. :)

Oh, I have nothing against Samsung or their drives. I just have a much better chance at keeping my job with Seagate buying us, rather than Samsung.

Welcome to the [h]orde! Glad to have you with us. I know I will, but I'm sure everyone will forgive you for having some borgs on another team. Every point you give team 33 helps, and every point folding period, be it on 33 or not, helps the REAL reason for folding. :)

Seagate. Thankfully not Samsung Although I have a feeling that you might see Samsung purchase WD by the end of the year...

Hmm, not sure which ones. All of the ones that I have seen use the SATA2 logo's are supporting 3gbps speeds among many other SATA2 features. I can't think of any manufacturers that only support 3gbps. Maxtor doesn't, that much I know for sure. :) And yes, the interface speed is a...

That's not entirely true. One of the SATA2 features is 3gbps support, but there are a number of other features and revisions from SATA2 as well.

Samsung drives are usually very cool and quiet. I've never used that one myself though. Seem to be great for the HTPC kind of thing.

I guess I'll join in... I'm a Firmware Engineer at Maxtor. Hopefully, soon to be a firmware engineer at Seagate. :o

No one is talking about scientifically sound testing environments or anything. We're talking overall rate of field returns. THAT is the data that needs to be looked at. Testing environments don't really mean much pertaining to this conversation. This is real, end user environments causing...

Umm, what exactly is that supposed to mean? Can you point me towards evidence/data that shows that Maxtor is "known" for having faults in drives? There are a couple models out there that aren't so hot, but those issues were addressed in the newer ones. The same can be said of basically any...

I actually just saw it on the sidebar while browsing this thread! :o

Looks like I'm just about matching you point for point!

The overall quality of Maxtor drives is right on par with all of the other manufacturers - i.e. they all make drives that will fail at some point. What kind of drive are they, and how did they fail? It's possible that you've just had some bad luck. Also possible that wherever you bought them...

Certainly doesn't sound normal... what kind of drive is it? Have you run the maxtor utility to check it? I'd get the Maxtor diag util off of maxtor.com, run that, and see if it reports any errors. If not, call Maxtor tech support and see if you can RMA it anyway. Either way, I'd at...

Doesn't appear to be any more questions to answer so... Welcome to the team! :)

Yay, i just hit 500k! :)

Good job! Now you're getting to the hard part... Takes a long long time to get from top 200 to top 100... even 150 takes a while. Good luck! :)

I probably can say - but I should check with the legal department before I do. It's been interesting, to say the least... Keep your fingers crossed for me getting picked up after the closing date! :)

I've been lurking now and then... just been too busy for anything but work lately. :(

Longmont, CO. Although I don't post much around here anymore. Work has just got me way too busy lately...

Great job everyone! Glad to be a part of it. :D

I've just let them fold on with the same settings. I'm not all that concerned about it. :)