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Originally Posted by Mr Colt
heres the thing, if it is a bearing that is going on one of them, would that even show up in a test?
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PROBABLY. Among other things, the SMART system monitors the spinup and spindown times, then logs and averages them. If there's a sudden significant change - say, it's normally between 80 and 120ms, averaging 100ms, and then one day it's 160ms - it will flag that, and a SMART monitor will show that flag as having been tripped. It may only do it once, but that's enough for the system to mark is as "something anomalous". A failing bearing COULD affect spinup time, and thus COULD trigger a smart flag... although there's no guarantee that it will affect things enough to be noticed by the system.
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QUESTION: if when i got the blue screen:
it was the data drive that wasnt being used that crashed, could it still cause the blue screen?
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No likely. A BSOD is usually a sign of a pretty significant hardware problem. It could easily be triggered by something critical getting corrupted on the system partition... say, the pagefile.
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Question: if right before the blue screen i got an i/o read error from utorrent saying it couldn't read from that hdd would that tell me that it is that hdd that crashed?
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That would be a good indication of some kind of problem with that drive, yet.
both the operating system and the torrents are on the same hdd[/QUOTE]