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October 11th, 2012 15:00

Hard drive return Issue.

I have an Alienware Area 51 ALX. it was shiped 3/24/2010.  Online order though AAFES (military store).

Part numbers from original System Configuration.
J510R
H652R
J518R
H652R
J518R
H652R

It came with a Raid 0 with 2 1TB harddrives. and I had ordered a 3rd 1TB harddrive for storage. Firmware cc38
Within a week one of the drives in the raid triggered a SMART and so the 3rd harddrive was used to replace that.

RMA the failed hardrive. replaced with a Fireware cc38. It became a spare.

I bought 3 1TB harddrives of the same model but with newer firmware. cc45

Durring troubleshooting with a video driver issue a second install of win7 was made on a 3rd drive to do driver testing.
(that broke the utility partition)

Since the utility partition was not working anymore I made a Raid 1+0 out of 4 harddrives. And rebuilt the system from the install DVDs.

about 1 month later one of the drives, firmware cc38,  triggered a SMART error.  I called up tech support and they said they was going to replace it.

They sent 2 harddrives firmware cc49, cc46, a utility DVD and a win7sp1 DVD.
When I called techsupport they said they wanted both of the drives replaced. (even thou only 1 drive had SMART failure).

Now almost 2 months later I got back the 2 drives I had sent with a statement that they are not dell drives and to send back dell drives.
I called the 800 number on the paper and I get bounced back to Alienware tech support.  He says not to use the RMA in the box and a new RMA will be sent out to ship back.  Have not got it 8 days later.

I got a call asking where the drives are and when I explaigned the background, that tech has never heard of this either.

Now I have a box with one SMART failure and one good drive just sitting here.  And I owe Dell 2 Hard drives on an open RMA.

Any ideas?

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October 15th, 2012 11:00

Elfiwolfe,

This is very confusing. Email this team. Explain in detail what is going on. AWCC-Resolution_experts@Dell.com

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