Hi. Today, after some problems, I finally got Windows 7 (64-bit) to recognize this new 1.5 TB drive, and I thought I had successfully formatted it. But then I kept getting pop-up messages from Windows 7 that the disk is about to fail. I've just run a low-level format on it, using Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool. I saw nothing but error message the whole time it was running. These are the SMART attributes the program is now showing:

Current date and time: 11/4/2009 5:21:24 PM
Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181; http://hddguru.com
SMART Attributes for SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG01118 [1500.3 Gbytes]

Attribute Current Worst Raw Note
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Att: 1 Read error rate 99 99 1
Att: 3 Spin up time 51 51 15430
Att: 4 Number of spin-up times 100 100 16
Att: 5 Reallocated sectors count 1 1 4295
Att: 7 Seek error rate 253 253 0
Att: 8 Seek time performance 100 100 0
Att: 9 Power-on time 100 100 4
Att: 10 Spin-up retries 100 100 0
Att: 11 Calibration retries 100 100 0
Att: 12 Start/stop count 100 100 16
Att: 13 Soft read error rate 99 99 1
Att: 183 Unknown 100 100 11
Att: 184 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 187 Unknown 100 100 1
Att: 188 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 190 Unknown 74 73 437911578
Att: 194 HDA Temperature 74 72 437911578 (26 degrees)
Att: 195 Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 26449
Att: 196 Reallocate event count 1 1 4295
Att: 197 Current pending sectors 100 100 0
Att: 198 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 0
Att: 199 Ultra ATA CRC Errors 100 100 0
Att: 200 Write error rate 99 99 4681
Att: 201 Unknown 253 253 0


Current date and time: 11/4/2009 7:08:46 PM
Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181; http://hddguru.com
SMART Attributes for SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG01118 [1500.3 Gbytes]

Attribute Current Worst Raw Note
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Att: 1 Read error rate 99 99 1
Att: 3 Spin up time 51 51 15430
Att: 4 Number of spin-up times 100 100 17
Att: 5 Reallocated sectors count 1 1 4295
Att: 7 Seek error rate 253 253 0
Att: 8 Seek time performance 100 100 0
Att: 9 Power-on time 100 100 5
Att: 10 Spin-up retries 100 100 0
Att: 11 Calibration retries 100 100 0
Att: 12 Start/stop count 100 100 16
Att: 13 Soft read error rate 99 99 1
Att: 183 Unknown 100 100 11
Att: 184 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 187 Unknown 100 100 1
Att: 188 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 190 Unknown 75 73 437846041
Att: 194 HDA Temperature 79 72 437583893 (21 degrees)
Att: 195 Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 27578
Att: 196 Reallocate event count 1 1 4295
Att: 197 Current pending sectors 100 100 0
Att: 198 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 0
Att: 199 Ultra ATA CRC Errors 100 100 0
Att: 200 Write error rate 99 99 4681
Att: 201 Unknown 253 253 0


Current date and time: 11/4/2009 7:25:41 PM
Hard Disk Low Level Format Tool 2.36 build 1181; http://hddguru.com
SMART Attributes for SAMSUNG HD154UI 1AG01118 [1500.3 Gbytes]

Attribute Current Worst Raw Note
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Att: 1 Read error rate 99 99 1
Att: 3 Spin up time 51 51 15430
Att: 4 Number of spin-up times 100 100 17
Att: 5 Reallocated sectors count 1 1 4295
Att: 7 Seek error rate 253 253 0
Att: 8 Seek time performance 100 100 0
Att: 9 Power-on time 100 100 5
Att: 10 Spin-up retries 100 100 0
Att: 11 Calibration retries 100 100 0
Att: 12 Start/stop count 100 100 16
Att: 13 Soft read error rate 99 99 1
Att: 183 Unknown 100 100 11
Att: 184 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 187 Unknown 100 100 1
Att: 188 Unknown 100 100 0
Att: 190 Unknown 75 73 437846041
Att: 194 HDA Temperature 75 72 437583897 (25 degrees)
Att: 195 Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 27578
Att: 196 Reallocate event count 1 1 4295
Att: 197 Current pending sectors 100 100 0
Att: 198 Offline scan UNC sectors 100 100 0
Att: 199 Ultra ATA CRC Errors 100 100 0
Att: 200 Write error rate 99 99 4681
Att: 201 Unknown 253 253 0


Being a novice with all this, I'm unclear on a lot of these numbers and what they mean, but it doesn't look good to me. Should I return this drive? I've only had it two days....

TIA!

Yes, return it.