Seagate ST9500325AS

[PrinceOfAbyss]

Guys, can you please take a look at my drive's status and tell me what's wrong with it (if anything is wrong)? I mean, according to HD Sentinel it has no bad/weak sectors, but it has a lot of read/write errors. So, what do you think? Is anything wrong with it? Is this typical with Seagates maybe? Not that I have any important data in it even in the case of a sudden "death", but I'd like to be prepared in any case.

[SAjunky]

Hi,
I get picture like that:

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blocked_login.PNG (11.78 KiB) Viewed 7804 times

[PrinceOfAbyss]

I'm not sure why you see such an image, but I sense it's something on your side. I logged out from here, and see the images even as a guest. I tried with IE, FF, Opera, and Safari and with all of them the images are visible to me.

[SAjunky]

This is what is coming with Web page - IE8:

Code:

<img src="./download/file.php?id=5412" alt="blocked_login.PNG" title="blocked_login.PNG"/><br />
         <span class="gensmall">blocked_login.PNG [ 11.78 KiB ]

Note, relative addressing used.

[PrinceOfAbyss]

These are the Imageshack direct links. Any better?

http://img641.imageshack.us/img641/8097/overviewv.png

http://img687.imageshack.us/img687/6660/smartd.png

[SAjunky]

Not. Direct links give the same frog.

From this forum link resolves to http://imageshack.us/img/blocked_login.jpg

Will check connecting to other ISP.

Note: ignore posted code from IE8, I picked up wrong section (link to posted picture by myself).

Last edited by SAjunky on August 15th, 2012, 20:06, edited 1 time in total.

[Vulcan]

FYI, pictures are visible as normal, both direct in the earlier posting, and via the links given later, in FF3 here - no problem...

[PrinceOfAbyss]

OMG, it almost drove me crazy. I was ready to temporarily upload them to a domain of a forum I run.

Anyway, so Vulcan, any opinion on my laptop's disk?

[Vulcan]

any opinion on my laptop's disk?

I don't have time to write a long reply, and remembering your first thread here, perhaps you would decide to follow your own plan anyway, so I might be wasting my time

IMHO on its own, that SMART data (as happens in many cases) is inconclusive. You say that "it has a lot of read/write errors", but there are other possible causes for that, not only the drive.

If it was my drive, I would be (a) further investigating the exact details of the previous errors, (b) testing the drive in other ways, and (c) potentially moving the drive to another system to perform tests, to see if any confirmed abnormal behaviour follows the drive. There are many possible approaches, depending on several factors - other readers may have different opinions to mine, without making any of them right or wrong...

[labtech]

In your area/neighborhood, do you have problems with electric outages or inconsistencies?

Do you have an UPS unit?

Though not typical for these drives to have this problem, check the HDA contacts on the IC side of the PCB. If they are oxidizing, that could be a problem.

Either way, back the data up so you are not caught by surprise.

[seed.helper]

Thats quite usual for a seagate my friend
If the drive doesnt develop bad sectors is fine for seagate
I never seen a seagate not giving errors in write or read
If that happens with a WD drive you should be 2x carefull because i normaly dont get any errors in smart with wd

[labtech]

Thats quite usual for a seagate my friend

In my neck of the woods, for this model drive, not that usual.

But that's good for you then, you have a lot of easy ones.

[Doomer]

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