huge SMART data?! (ST3500320AS)

[betaware]

Hello,

I'm worried about my hard drive, it's a seagate ST3500320AS disk.

two weeks ago, this hard disk crashed by an unknown reason [the system didn't recognize the hard drive anymore, i didn't have done something unusual]

Now, two weeks later, my returned RMA hard disk [again, an ST3500320AS disk] has some huge smart data on Raw error rate, hardware ecc recovered.

The strange thing is, when I do an disk check with HD Tune 2.55, the data on RAW ERROR RATE grows enormious. but when it's finished [see last image] the raw error rate is reducing

I have here some screenshots of Everest, maybe it could help to explain it a lot more.


Is this disk going to die? or don't have I to worry about this?
As you can imagine, i'm not really happy with this results. The crash two weeks ago caused a lot of data-loss, so I didn't have some school documents anymore, and don't prefer, if this disk fails, to choose another Seagate HDD.
Which disk could you advice? I need a lot of reliability.

is this a good choice: http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=487 ?


Thanks in advance,

Here a link to the smart results from everest: http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa197/WimJager/smart.png

 

[Freeduck]

I have a Seagate ST3250824AS (primary with OS, programs and data) and a ST325083AS (for backup). The data from HDTune are almost the same as the ones you get (Status Ok). I don't think my harddisks will fail in the near future. Anyway, I also have a backup on an external HD.
How come yoy have 4 harddisks and no backup?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.M.A.R.T.

 

[betaware]

I have backuped all my data, but it requires so much space and time; and when you have to do that every week it s too much work. Sometimes you hope that the drive has realibility...

by the way, on wikipedia I found this;

"Note that Seagate drives often report a raw value that is very high even on new drives, and does not thereby indicate a failure."

So i'll guess that everest reports false data? and I could ignore those readings?

 

[Freeduck]

Only the first backup takes a lot of time. Next time you can make an incremental backup that only adds new/changed files. I use SyncToy (Microsoft). You can choose Synchronize, Echo, Contribute as backup mode. A weekly session takes 5 minutes at most.

In my opinion you can ignore the readings until you get a 'Not Ok!'.