New laptop 2 drive failures in 2 months

[DonS]

It's the fact that Toshiba drives are junk. I can almost call it every time I have a laptop under 2 years old where the drive fails. Oh look! What a surprise! Another Toshiba branded drive!

 

[Diggs]

Then you would know that DOOM (released in 2016) and (both) Wolfenstein titles (New order released 2014 and Old Blood released 2015) along with Sniper Ghost Warrior 3 (released 2017) are fairly recent games that require some fairly good specs to achieve smooth gameplay.

New Wolfenstein titles? Enjoyed the old ones long ago. How'd I miss the new. Hmmm......

 

[GTP]

New Wolfenstein titles? Enjoyed the old ones long ago. How'd I miss the new. Hmmm......

Quite enjoyed "Old Blood" and "New Order.
Just finished playing playing Old Blood for the third time and Crysis 2 Maximum Edition (for about the 20th time).
Then there's Serious Sam First Encounter, Second Encounter, Serious Sam 3 BFE, Crysis 3, F.E.A.R 3, Ghost warrior 1 & 2.... Ahhh, I love em all!
Sniper Ghost warrior 3 and DOOM make my old graphics card (GTX 660) work extremely hard!
Still quite playable if I turn down the settings to medium though!
"They are proper FPS's! Beautiful environments, incredible AI, nice smooth gameplay, fast paced, challenging on the highest level.
I've bought some absolute crap FPS's on Steam, I wish I could get my money back! Some developers idea's of a FPS are so bad they're laughable!

Edit: Geez, how could I forget Metro 2033, Hard Redux, The PainKiller series, BulletStorm, The Quake series (oldies but goodies)!

I recently bought Sniper Fury and Heavy Fire: Shattered Spear...OMG, absolute garbage!
I refuse to buy any FPS now unless I review it on Youtube first.

 

[Diggs]

I've played the Serious Sam series in the past and had enough by SS3. Also all the Painkiller series (bullet time - heh!). I love the open worlds and incredible draw distances of Far Cry and Crysis (they're related) and have played all of them which is why I'm playing a bit of Wildlands now (all made in the same style by Ubisoft). Unfortunately, all the promos of Wildlands showed first person game play but the game play is third person view which I dislike. (Gun sights are the only first person views.)

We could have a separate thread for "Old Guys/Girls Gaming" heh!

 

[Velvis]

That's a thought. I will check it out on Monday.

Thanks!


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So the 2nd drive I installed a couple of weeks ago, sounds like there are marbles inside it. Whatever went wrong it went horribly wrong. Put a new drive in and hopefully it was just bad luck.




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[NviGate Systems]

When it spins up it sounds like someone dropped a marble and it makes multiple echoes/vibrations?

Yeah that is bad. Can't recall what it is, bearings or head assembly.

 

[Velvis]

When it spins up it sounds like someone dropped a marble and it makes multiple echoes/vibrations?

Yeah that is bad. Can't recall what it is, bearings or head assembly.

Yeah, I went in think maybe it some came dislodge or I would plug it into a dock and run some tests. But just turning on the laptop it sounded like a bunch of marbles getting smashed around in a blender.




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[brandonkick]

Bunch of marbles in a blender... yikes!

Not to fuel or start a pissing match, but I'd agree on two things. The loading times of a SSD just smash a traditional drive in the face. Of course a game will not feel much different when running off of things mostly in system memory, but during a level load or initial startup... you'll feel the difference. If it's a game that loads or swaps a lot of assets as gameplay continues, the experience will be much better on an SSD.

The average office user won't see much a benefit off of an SSD. The average office "power user" probably will. Up until the last year or so, SSD's were not a big difference in terms of price. Sure you only got a 240/250GB drive for the same cost as a 500 GB / 1TB spinner... but quite often most people weren't using but a tiny part of that space. Made a lot more sense to upgrade to the much faster SSD. Now that prices are higher... the average email checker/user and M$ office user really doesn't need the SSD. I guess the best case you could make is that it would take a tech a lot less time to work on the machine, and that alone may be worth the cost difference if repairs were necessary.


Anywho, back to the OP's issue.... sounds like it could very well be some shoddy 5400 RPM drives, or a bad SATA controller. Throwing in a new samsung SSD and seeing how it fairs would be a pretty good test. If it starts to die in a few weeks my money would be on a problem with the machine. Let us know how it makes out.

 

[LordIntruder]

It's the fact that Toshiba drives are junk.

I beg your pardon but I can't sign that. in the 2,5" sector I made the best experiences with toshiba drives, insignificant if they stuck in laptops or servers.