Hello,

I've just imaged this drive. In the bios the final character from the model number was missing, SMART errors were numerous and it was reporting that failure was imminent. R-Studio didn't drop the last letter of the model number but it was displayed as a square. Many bad sectors were reported but the drive imaged successfully after 24hours and, with no bads after I relaxed all the settings.

I'm just curios really. Is it a firmware issue, the start of a G-list overflow perhaps? It's going back under warranty either way

SORRY GUYS. JUST POSTED THIS IN THE WRONG FORUM. I'LL LEAVE IT HERE NOW BUT THE MODERATORS CAN DELETE IF THEY WISH.

Maybe it was a damaged connection to IDE/SATA channel?