Unless it gets damaged like a bad sector and Seagate won't give you a RMA until its dead beyond anything and during that period you won't be able to store anything on it as it might get corrupted, its like sitting helpless besides a dying patient whom the doctors won't treat as he is not dead enough.I scared about the seagate external 1TB harddisk ma bro ownWith this thread i learned how all ways I SHOULD NOT treat a HDD
Haven't fetched the drive, don't feel the need to even get it, hopeless.
Seagate?You are spreading the disease
221 reallocated sectors have cropped up in my 500gb hdd
CrystalDiskInfo marks its health as 'Caution'
See if it fails sea tools, if it passes no RMA for you, then do what I am about to do.
My 7 year old maxtor 300gb still going strong now.
Quick test I think, see if there's something called SMART test, if not run quick test.Bought it on 1st march 2009. So no warranty.
My friend and I got the same hdds together (so assuming same batch). His hdd crashed a month back.
Btw, which particular seatool test to run ?
Its a beast, make sure to get the 1002FAEX model that has 64MB cache, older FALS model has 32MB only, both are sold at slightly different prices, FALS wll be a little cheaper.Doesnt matter actually. Warranty has expired. Will move the hdd to storage/backup only.
I ran a few basic tests yesterday, bugger passed all.
*1TB WD Black, here i come*
I haven't picked it up yet, will update once I get it.
@Myth: As it is out of warranty you can't do much about it.
RMA it and sell itThats what I thought.
Turns out seagate warranty validation thinks otherwise. It is in warranty till 24-Dec-2013
Again we face two more problems:
1. I have to make sure its fails seatool tests by dec-2013
2. *www.thinkdigit.com/forum/shopping/...ng-advice-thread-kolkata-249.html#post1837074
