New 8TB Seagate Hard Drive bad?

[nfinity]

Just got a new 8TB Seagate hard drive.

Seems to be working ok, but looking at Smart, not sure if will have a short life or problems down the line?

Raw Read Error Rate, Seek Error Rate, Hardware ECC Recovered are what worry me.

I have coped over just over 2TB to new drive, drive has been used for just under 24 hours still.

Anyone have expertise in this area and advise?

 

[Nebulous]

This is a brand new drive? Send it back. For a brand new drive it shouldn't have any at all.

 

[nfinity]

Darn, well that figures. Thanks for the advise.

 

[Woomack]

I would run Seagate diagnostic program. HDTune is a 3rd party and quite old software. No idea if it reads everything correctly. Your version is from 2010.

 

[EarthDog]

There we go... check it with it's own tools and see.

While I see values that are out of whack, the status is "OK"... so, I wouldn't read that as The Gospel either.

 

[nfinity]

Thanks for the advise. Guessing this has to be the right tool off Seagate's site, "SeaTools for Windows"

I basically ran all the tests and they all passed... The one I think I should most be interested in is the SMART Check, and it passed.

Drive info doesn't go quite into detail unlike HD Tune Pro.

Any new thoughts? Think I should live with drive now?

 

[EarthDog]

Same thoughts... the drive is OK as HD Tune said. I'd advise you not to worry about it. My advice to you is to always have backups!

 

[nfinity]

I see what you did there Can't believe I said "advise" instead of "advice" 3 times in a row.

Anyway thanks for the "advice"!

Yes this 8TB Seagate drive will be the primary drive in my ITX NAS. The 3TB WD Red will be its backup(have FreeFileSync running on a schedule)

Also run backups to an external hard drive every other month.