Seagate 7200.7 hari-kari

Uberman1080 · Post by **Uberman1080** » Mon May 10, 2004 6:16 am

Ok, ive got a 120gb ATA 7200.7 8mb. Anyway, ones died on me allready and im thinking this "new" one might be headed that way too. Im using HDD Health by http://www.panterasoft.com which reads the SMART status. anyway i was wondering if anyone knew what the deal was with the Raw Read Error rate and the Hardware ECC recovered. As both have changed recently.
it'll be the last seagate i buy, even if they are quiet id rather have a hdd that im not constantly fretting about dying on me.

Techno Pride · Post by **Techno Pride** » Mon May 10, 2004 6:43 am

well...I have a BarracudaIV in use for 2 years and the Raw Read Error rate and the Hardware ECC Recovederd seem to have the same value and change all the time

i wouldn't worry too much abuot it

DonP · Post by **DonP** » Mon May 10, 2004 2:24 pm

Maxamus wrote:I have Seagate 120GB 8MB Cashe / 200Gb Seagate SATA

Now i am worried

Aww crap - may I be the first person to strongly recommend that you backup your valuable data as soon as possible!!

No.. not really.. sorry about that

I spotted this phenomenon some time ago and to date I haven't seen anyone with any Seagate which doesn't report such errors. It's normal AFAIK.

PS But, naturally, regular backups are a good idea. Unless you're Linus Torvlads and then you just get stuff mirrored around the world.

mas92264 · Post by **mas92264** » Mon May 10, 2004 3:45 pm

Seagate has an online disc diag tool that runs under windows. Seatools Online.

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