Is my drive dying?

Cheator · Jun 22, 2009

I bought a Seagate 7200.11 1TB drive about 2 months ago and only finally started to use it. Something odd I noticed though is that when it spins up, I get 4 clicks before its ready to use. Im not familiar with these drives but i know that seagate isn't doing very well right now. Do i need to rma this drive?

Automata · Jun 22, 2009

Exactly what my drives did when they arrived, two were DOA (the ones that clicked on startup). Back up your data now.

I.M.O.G. · Jun 22, 2009

Have you ran seatools on the drive?

Cheator · Jun 22, 2009

I.M.O.G. said:
Have you ran seatools on the drive?

No but I got a detailed smart report and it showed no problems. Sounds like thideras had the same issue though, luckily there is nothing important on it. Thanks guys!

Automata · Jun 22, 2009

I'd also like to note that mine also showed clean SMART reports. I've had a total of 4 our of the 7 drives fail, none gave SMART error before dying. They are now in my server as temporary storage.

Cheator · Jun 25, 2009

Got the next one.. does the same thing so im going to try it. Damned seagate...

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