Are SATA drives less resilient to file-system corruption than IDE?
- From: "Mortimer" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 13:21:00 +0100
Over the past couple of months I've been called to three customers whose PCs
have failed to boot. When I put the HDD in a second computer, Windows CHDSKs
it, corrects a few filesystem errors and leaves the disk in a state where it
will boot the original PC perfectly.
In all three cases, the PCs have had SATA drives. I've never seen this
symptom with IDE disks. Is there something about SATA drives which makes
them more vulnerable to filesystem corruption than IDE ones, assuming the
same filesystem (NTFS) and OS (XP) in both cases?
When I asked the owners about events that led up to the problems, the common
factor is a mains blip or power-cut: in one case something fell on the mains
lead and connector and may have interrupted the mains for an instant; in
another case it transpired that the house had an over-sensitive RCD which
"is always tripping-out when I turn the garage light on"!
.
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