I have a Maxtor DiamondMax 10 250GB drive that may have an issue. Basically, I have been doing all sorts of tests on it since it was very slow to open in Directory Opus and ActiveSMART threw a SMART error.

In my testing, I've seen no indication of SMART failure anywhere but in that program, however, I have seen rather high (C3) Hardware ECC Recovered -- 12313 right now, varying from 8k - 12k. This is compared to my other Maxtor drive, a 60GB that has around 500 in that value.

Is this enough for me to try and RMA the drive, or does it mean nothing?

if you can make rma of hd... nor it needs to answer, it does not think...