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SATA corruption

  • 26-06-2004 4:25pm
    #1
    grimloch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭


    my friends SATA hd corrupts itself every 6 or so months, i dont want the same thing to happen to me is there any way to help prevent it corrupting?


Comments

  • #2
    El_MUERkO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 759 ✭✭✭El_MUERkO


    Its probably because hes not treating it very well, defragging, virus scanning ...etc or the drive could be broken.

    I have 2 SATAs, one is nearly a year old and i've never had any issues with it.


  • #3
    slartibardfast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭slartibardfast


    please post some details of your mates hardware.

    esp. chipset & sata controller chip

    For example a lot of Nforce2 boards + Sil3112a need to have "EXT-P2P's Discard Time" set to 1ms, to avoid corruption...


  • #4
    grimloch
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,688 ✭✭✭grimloch


    its this mobo and this hard drive not too sure about his controller chip now


  • #5
    slartibardfast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 188 ✭✭slartibardfast


    that should be fine, controller is part of the southbridge, very modern and no issues that I can find.

    guess try the usual suspects check SMART info then memtest86+prime95, nothing like an unstable/oc'd system to corrupt a partition over time...

    You should be fine, don't worry! (always have backups, anyway :D)


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