🚀 go-pugleaf

I need to to know if people with huge capacity SATA hard drives (500GB
and up) have the following problem :

Bought a new hard drive, install it, formatted the disk, install the
OS, use it for 2 months, and then weird things start popping up.

The hard drive that I am using is Western Digital's WD6400AAKS -- a
640GB hard drive.

I bought it to replace my 250 GB drive, which is running out of
capacity. I do a lot of video editing.

Bought the hard drive back in 2nd of July this year. Install the hard
drive into my PC, partitioned it into 2 logical volume (Drive C: and
Drive D:) and then install the OS onto it. The OS that I use is Win
XP. The HD is formatted under NTFS file system.

Drive C: has 30 GB and the rest, about 570GB, falls under drive D:

I ran chkdsk (check disk) on both partitions (chkdsk /f /r /x) and
there wasn't any error. So I thought I had bought a good drive and was
feeling very happy.

It runs okay for 2 months, and then ...

Sometimes when I start my PC, the PC can't find the drive.

Other times, the PC can find the drive, but running extra ordinarily
slow.

I dropped down to the Command Prompt level, use "chkdsk" again to
check what's wrong.

The command that I use is still the same "chkdsk /x /r /f" --- to
dismount the disk, and to "fix" the disk if there is anything wrong,
and to check (recover) bad sector.

Long and behold, there _ARE_ bad sectors !!

Drive C has 82KB of bad sectors, and Drive D has 288KB of bad sectors.

This is a drive that I'd just used for 2 months !! And the
manufacturing date (the date stamped on the label of the drive)
indicated that it was made June, 2008. In all account, this is a _NEW_
drive, and it is developing BAD SECTORS !!!

The 250GB drive that I used never gave me any problem. This 640GB,
however, worries me !

I know that 400KB of bad sector, for a 640GB (actually it's 597GB
after formatted) hard drive, is insignificant. But still, bad sectors
are still BAD SECTORS, and I am afraid that the bad sectors would
spread !!

That is why I am posting this message, asking the people who have more
experience than me in using huge capacity hard drive --- is the bad
sectors common occurrance?

Or that I'm just too unlucky to get myself a lemon?

BTW, the hard drive is EXTREMELY HOT, not warm, but VERY HOT !!! I do
not have the actual temperature in it (I do not know if there is any
utility out there that would give me the drive's actual temperature)
but when I touch the drive, it was very HOT !!!

Please, please help.

Thank you !