Seagate HDD Keeps Failure

[evolv]

Last month a PC (it's HP MT3330) in my office got HDD failure (it's Seagate brand maybe Barracuda type 500GB). I decide to replace it with a new one (and it's Seagate 500GB too). Couple of week later, the replacement HDD got the same issue with the last one, and I replace it again with a brand new one (luckily the store didn't ask too much why the drive got fail). This happened for three times and I really don't know whether the problem is from the PC or the drive I purchased. From the snapshot I suppose the drive is in bad sector. But three times in a row I say it's more like a bad luck. Any suggestion? Sorry for my bad english btw

[Electronics Wizardy]

Its a bad drive. You just got unlucky. 

 

Also those are old drives. Id get a ssd or a new hdd.

 

[MaxBunny]

1 minute ago, evolv said:

This happened for three times and I really don't know whether the problem is from the PC or the drive I purchased. From the snapshot I suppose the drive is in bad sector. But three times in a row I say it's more like a bad luck. Any suggestion?

What are your PC specs? Maybe your motherboard, power supply, or cable are fault and are causing spikes to mess with your drives. It could be a lot of things, but getting 3 bad drives in a row is unlikely unless they were all part of the same shipment where they all got broken from rough handling or something.

 

There are too many variables on that type of thing.

[ARikozuM]

Try a different SATA port and cable. Use a different power cable. 

[SCHISCHKA]

i didn't know they still made 500GB drives. are you sure they are new and not second hand?

[evolv]

6 minutes ago, MaxBunny said:

What are your PC specs? Maybe your motherboard, power supply, or cable are fault and are causing spikes to mess with your drives. It could be a lot of things, but getting 3 bad drives in a row is unlikely unless they were all part of the same shipment where they all got broken from rough handling or something.

 

There are too many variables on that type of thing.

It's a branded PC HP 3330 Micro Tower with Intel Core i3 3220, 2GB RAM. It's 5 years old PC

 

 

8 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Its a bad drive. You just got unlucky. 

 

Also those are old drives. Id get a ssd or a new hdd.

 

3 times in a row of HDD made me think twice to plug some SSD's in there

9 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

Try a different SATA port and cable. Use a different power cable. 

Done that, but I never try different power cable 'cause there are only two power cables (one with DVD drive and I can't swap it because the cable is too short.

 

Btw thanks for the reply guys

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, evolv said:

15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

 

3 times in a row of HDD made me think twice to plug some SSD's in there

those errors aren't due to bad power. You just got bad drives.

[evolv]

7 minutes ago, SCHISCHKA said:

i didn't know they still made 500GB drives. are you sure they are new and not second hand?

Every trusted store in my country still sell it, so yeah I think it's brand new. I'm from Indonesia btw