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cyclonus
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 Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 3:27 am Post subject: WD1500ADFD-00NLR0 can't spin up |
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Hello
I recently had the misfortune of losing a RAID1 mirror of two WD1500ADFD-00NLR0 drives. In both cases, the drives fail to spin up. When hotplugged into a system capable of doing so, you can see that the drive LED turns on for a couple of seconds, then turns off immediately after a very weak single click. This repeats each time with no drive identification within BIOS (when attached directly or even when attached via a 3ware controller). Both drives in the system failed simultaneously. In addition a co-worker with the exact same model/firmware had a similar issue with his mirrored set, although I'm not sure if both of his died at the same time.
Anyhow, the drive in question has the following specs:
MDL : WD1500ADFD-00NLR0
DATE: 27 DEC 2006
DCM : HBCA2AB
PCB : 2061-701384-800 13P
Would anyone happen to have any thoughts as to if this simply is a PCB issue or is it a failed motor? It's particularly odd that both drives show the exact same symptoms (heck, even my co-worker's drive exhibit the same "cant spin up" symptom).
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Power surge could cause such problems.
Did your RAID suffer a fall?
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cyclonus
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| harddrivespecialist wrote: | Power surge could cause such problems.
Did your RAID suffer a fall? |
The drives (this was a software RAID1 in linux) were well mounted in the desktop and did not suffer any physical trauma. In fact, they had been running for almost 2 years prior to the failure. The desktop was hooked up to a UPS/surge protector, so not sure if that would have prevented a power surge from affecting the drives only (since nothing else appears to have issues on the machine).
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Computer power supply cause a lot of problems.
You most likely need a help of the pro.
This type of job might not be very expensive.
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