I had a 1TB Black drive for my desktop and in the bios it said SMART status bad back up and replace. So I contacted the customer support and they sent me a new one. I got that one and plugged it in and immediatly got the same back up and replace message. Just to try my luck I contacted customer supp…

Hi no 126 hours is not normal. As I mentioned try a new Sata cable just to rule that out. What mother board is it do you have the latest bios and sata controller driver if you want post back what board it is and I can check to see what updates are available for it. Just to add I have a system that h…

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Dre529 April 10, 2014, 4:15pm 5

I changed the Sata cable and that fixed everything. It’s lightning fast now. Thanks for your help.