Hi all, I'm new to these forums and I'm just hoping for a bit of advice.
I have a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB drive which recently fell over. I used the Samsung hdutils to peform a full surface scan and it showed a ton of ECC errors.
As suggested by the Samsung hdutils I then performed a full disk wipe (which I presume performs a low-level format) and then ran the full surface scan again. This time there were no errors.
So now I'm not sure whether or not I should return this drive? The fact it had the errors initially makes me nervous - this drive only has about 6 months left on the warranty, so it it fell over again -more permanently- in 7 months I'd be kicking myself.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
cjp
I have a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB drive which recently fell over. I used the Samsung hdutils to peform a full surface scan and it showed a ton of ECC errors.
As suggested by the Samsung hdutils I then performed a full disk wipe (which I presume performs a low-level format) and then ran the full surface scan again. This time there were no errors.
So now I'm not sure whether or not I should return this drive? The fact it had the errors initially makes me nervous - this drive only has about 6 months left on the warranty, so it it fell over again -more permanently- in 7 months I'd be kicking myself.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
cjp
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