[dtw]

SM, the PC is clean. I keep a can of air handy and hose it out now and then. Temps are good - it is a bit of a hot-rod gaming machine, so I've got the case crammed with fans and the CPU runs a liquid cooler. Yes, the new Windows drive is a 1 or 2 year old 1.5TB Barracuda I had in there before. The errors are damaged sectors (2,630), spin up failure (1), unstable sectors (125).

Now that I poll the other drives, I see a couple UDMA communication errors, but nothing else amiss. The main drive is still physically functional - typing this post on the faulty machine. I have lost a couple files though.

The old drive was still functioning as well, but I took a sledgehammer to it after I retired it.