Well, there's nothing new in the SMART data since the first failure yesterday. Still just one reallocation event and 12 sectors reported. I've got that disk hooked up on the motherboard so I can punish it with a barrage of tests to see if it is actually failing/weak or if there's something else going on. So far, it all looks fine. In HD Tune, the random read test looked completely normal, but random write, on the 64K portion, had one single outlier dot that was up at 200ms at around the 10gb mark.

I did notice after doing the surface scan, I changed over to the speed map and there was one 190MB block that was a shade of yellow in a sea of bright green at around the 10GB mark, too, so.... I'm kind of starting to lean toward a legitimate weak spot that eventually works, but it takes longer than a second or two. I'm doing a full zero erase now, and maybe I'll do some more testing with it. I'm not sure just yet.

Basically.. there are officially no bad sectors, and it doesn't legitimately fail as far as I can tell, but it seems that it has lost a lot of its trust factor.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

12 sectors reported as reallocated just means that the drives FW marked em as bad and assigned spare sectors

the drive is rapidly failing don't waste your time on it RMA or get another one

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I came down with a bad case of i don't give a crap

12 sectors reported as reallocated just means that the drives FW marked em as bad and assigned spare sectors

the drive is rapidly failing don't waste your time on it RMA or get another one

I was always under the assumption that platter drives don't have spare sectors. I know SSDs do.

Anyway, yeah, I'm not going to bother with an RMA anyway, because the warranty period for it ran out in early 2011.

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Linux laptop:
record uptime: 1511d 20h 19m (ended due to the power brick giving-up)

I was always under the assumption that platter drives don't have spare sectors. I know SSDs do.

They usually have two or three tracks of them, and many drives have at least one sector on spare when they leave the factory.

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Hello everybody.

We received a request from arkayn to lock this thread because it is getting long. I assume he will be starting a new one for all to enjoy.

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