Are you freaking kidding me...

At the beginning of the month, while working on two COH videos I planned to release this month, I got some disk errors while working with the (very large) video files. It went from pristine status to 3 bad sectors when I had only completed a couple of minutes of each video.



So, since the disk is barely over a year old, I put an RMA request on it. I knew it'd take a while, but then I could hop on the game for the final week and finish at least one video (in a hurry).

Well, I got my replacement yesterday, and left it overnight copying my files back to it from my backup computer (that doesn't have a decent graphics card, so I can't use for gaming). Guess what I woke up to? A write error.



Looks like I just wasted 3 weeks of possible game time waiting for a flawed replacement. Isn't that great?

I guess I'll do what I should have done 3 weeks ago, and put my backup's hard drive on my gaming computer, and hope nothing happens to my data until I get a replacement harddisk again. Darn, I am so annoyed right now.

the first TB+ ATA WD HD I ever bought started acting strange almost immediately. Normal behavior for days followed by a sudden error, from which the only way to get it to behave normally again was with a cold boot. This would very occasionally lead to write failures, usually only when large fraps videos were involved.