Quote from: wpgdeez on September 18, 2014, 01:41:46 PM

Quote from: bspurloc on September 18, 2014, 04:55:34 AM

Quote from: soy on September 17, 2014, 10:03:03 PM

Sorry about the off topic but: Perplexed rather than paranoid, something odd has occurred since checking the UPS shipping status of my S3+'s from China. I have two drives in this system both new this year, a 2TB main drive and a 3TB backup. Upon getting notification that the units were shipped I checked the UPS tracking and saw the status but about that time one of my hard drives started making sounds as if moving data to the inner area of the drive and that read arm was loud in its snapping movement. It's been happening every once in a while since. Meanwhile I've downloaded SeaTools and fast check the drives and both are okay and now doing a long drive test. So, NSA or China screwing with my system?

heads slamming in and out is a READ FAILURE. the heads try to realign then back to the platter area its trying to read. FAILS again and then try to align again, repeat repeat repeat. the drive a DOA.
The nsa accusation is a tad crazy bra.

Backup your data, failure is only a matter of time.

Sorry this went so far off topic.