Bohemian Simian
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Drive failure, 4th time. Just bad luck, or is something else to blame, does anyone think?
- Someone has suggested that, as a certain drive (slot) has failed on 3 of the occasions, it might be a lead, or even a motherboard connector?
I've emailed support but not yet had a response (emailed Saturday and yesterday) - I'm hoping that eventually a replacement drive can be sent. But wondering if the problems may continue, and just thought I'd put this out there while I wait for support to reply (can't access live support during day, due to my work).
Further background on PC.
PC is 14 months old.- I have 3 drives, an SSD boot and 2 standard data drives (say drive 2 and drive 3). Drive 3 failed, was replaced, then drive 2 and 3 failed: it turned out that the drives were not suitable for RAID 0, which I'd bought them set up as. So, PCS replaced the drives with a different model. 6 months later drive 3 has gone again.
This PC is not heavily used, 99% of the little time it is used is for browsing the internet (bought PC for design work but due to terrible first 4 months I set up a design PC at work as a stand-in and still use that), so wear and tear is an unlikely problem.
- Have I just been unlucky with drive life (I'm glad I spent extra on Gold Warranty now) or could there be something else?
- Someone has suggested that, as a certain drive (slot) has failed on 3 of the occasions, it might be a lead, or even a motherboard connector?
I've emailed support but not yet had a response (emailed Saturday and yesterday) - I'm hoping that eventually a replacement drive can be sent. But wondering if the problems may continue, and just thought I'd put this out there while I wait for support to reply (can't access live support during day, due to my work).
Further background on PC.
PC is 14 months old.- I have 3 drives, an SSD boot and 2 standard data drives (say drive 2 and drive 3). Drive 3 failed, was replaced, then drive 2 and 3 failed: it turned out that the drives were not suitable for RAID 0, which I'd bought them set up as. So, PCS replaced the drives with a different model. 6 months later drive 3 has gone again.
This PC is not heavily used, 99% of the little time it is used is for browsing the internet (bought PC for design work but due to terrible first 4 months I set up a design PC at work as a stand-in and still use that), so wear and tear is an unlikely problem.
- Have I just been unlucky with drive life (I'm glad I spent extra on Gold Warranty now) or could there be something else?
emails normally take 2-3 days I believe, longer when busy. 
