I have fixed recently a free Seagate ST31000340AS 1TB 7200.11 drive that had BSY error.
Didn''t clear G-List (was I supposed to?), just issued the m0,2,2,,,,,22 command, waited about half a minute, and it passed with flying colors.
Updated firmware to SD1A (it had the absolute dreaded SD15) so I wouldn't get BSY again.

Since then, the drive DOES spin up, but near the end of the spin up sequence, it clicks about two times then works normally. Every once in a while (it's random when it happens - could be anywhere up from half an hour) it does the same click.

I have run HD Sentinel - the drive shows a value of 2 in front of the "Spin Retry Count".


Should I worry about the drive? I do have a ST31000528AS 1TB spare drive I could work with.

I would quick as hell copy my data to another good drive (not Seagate), and bin that Seagate.

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I got it for free, so no big loss of data anyways. The previous owner said it hasn't seen use for 10 years. (2009 datecode on it)

Health section in HDD Sentinel reports 91%.

I honestly have a WHOLE box of failed laptop HGST drives, so I guess I'm fine with Seagate and the others.