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yea I have a wd 1tb sata2 drive that has some. I actually pulled it from a usb enclosure where the usb part went bad and it has been going for years in my home file server.
I don't have any data on the drive at all now -- I didn't have anything on it but steam games anyway.
there were bad blocks, like I said in my first post I ran a long scan using seatools (took about 4-5 hrs) and it found some bad blocks and then it ran a short DST test and fixed them...So you think this drive is dying then ? of course I'm out of warranty by like 3 months and seatools only gives you one year for OEM drives (got it from newegg)
Seatools doesn't fix bad blocks....Originally Posted by HardwareDecoder
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there were bad blocks, like I said in my first post I ran a long scan using seatools (took about 4-5 hrs) and it found some bad blocks and then it ran a short DST test and fixed them...So you think this drive is dying then ? of course I'm out of warranty by like 3 months and seatools only gives you one year for OEM drives (got it from newegg)
I'm not entirely versed on sectors vs blocks but seatools definitely said it had found bad blocks or sectors (can't remember) then proceeded to fix them by remapping I believe and then ran a short dst test and claimed all was good. utilities in windows that had found bad blocks before now don't so?
Maybe so but i'm cheap so I will just use it as non-important storage until it has another issue. I'm not looking forward to buying another mech drive with a 1 year warranty. I did see if you buy from amazon you can get a $8.94 square trade warranty that lasts two years and seems to cover alot...Originally Posted by Lord Xeb
I would run another long test and make sure that there are no more as the short test doesn't full test the drive and can easily not find bad blocks if it doesn't look in the right place, or if a block is tested thoroughly enough.
if you found 48 bad blocks, it is time for a new drive even if seatools fixed it.
Drive's should last much longer than that... ;/Originally Posted by HardwareDecoder
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Maybe so but i'm cheap so I will just use it as non-important storage until it has another issue. I'm not looking forward to buying another mech drive with a 1 year warranty. I did see if you buy from amazon you can get a $8.94 square trade warranty that lasts two years and seems to cover alot...Originally Posted by Lord Xeb
I would run another long test and make sure that there are no more as the short test doesn't full test the drive and can easily not find bad blocks if it doesn't look in the right place, or if a block is tested thoroughly enough.
if you found 48 bad blocks, it is time for a new drive even if seatools fixed it.
kind of looking at this one http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Barracuda-3-5-Inch-Internal-ST3000DM001/dp/B005T3GRLY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376198481&sr=8-1&keywords=seagate+3tb
seems to be the same drive I have w/ 1 more 1tb platter
ugh I paid 100$ for the 2000 so $100/15(months) = 6.66$ a month.... sounds pretty crappy to me.
Agreed..... I'm pissed