Raw Read Errors on brand new Seagate 2TB Internal drive.

[984875]

Hello.

After having transferred about 1.2 TB to the drive, this is what HDD Sentinel shows:

It also gives 100% for both performance and health. Now I'm no expert on S.M.A.R.T., but reading up on it it seems that the important numbers are the ones given under "Data". Am I correct in that the numbers shown mean that there have been 9 Raw Read Errors and 7 Seek Errors? The first number given for the RRER seems to go up by about one every day.

I've run Seatools for Windows and the drive passed both the SMART and Self Diagnostics tests. I'm worried since my 5+ year old Samsung 500GB drives have zero Read or Seek errors to this day.

Should I try to get the drive replaced or?

 

[ESPclipse]

Those errors do not necessarily point to hardware malfunction. SMART evaluation software will probably tell you if the drive is going bad, but if you really want to dig for potential problems, you can perform a standard disc check with:

chkdsk /f /r

If the drive you want to check is not your system (C: ) drive, then you will have to specify the drive letter (with colon) right after the 'chkdsk' string. chkdsk will search for bad sectors and misinformation about file locations on the drive that can lead to erroneous read/writes. There is also partition management software that can (supposedly) scan the discs' surfaces for bad sectors. All this being said, though, it is natural to encounter some errors with general use. So long as errors are handled properly (so you do not encounter BSODs), I would not be too concerned.

 

[984875]

Thanks. I'll run the short and long tests in Seatools (roughly equivalent of chkdsk I believe) and report back here.