Been having trouble with a couple of hard disks, two 500 gb Seagates. Their SMART status is showing fine and not tripped. But one attribute is troubling me. It is Command Timeout (188) is not zero on both drives. Googling suggests cabling/device or PSU. I have changed the cables and so far so good but they are still getting the odd counter increase.
The disks are nearly two years old and a Hitachi I have just bought does not have this counter so cant compare. The PSU a Hiper 530W is about 4 years old now. I was thinking of replacing it with a Corsair 500W and while I'm at it the same for my other machine downstairs which has a WinPower PSU which are known to go pop after 6 months. New PSU?



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