ST2000DL003-9VT166

[hejsanarne]

Hello!

I recently (2 weeks ago) bought a Seagate Barracuda 2TB Green to use for downloading and seeding torrents on. Said and done, I have also adjusted the utorrent settings to fit my bandwidth (100/100 Mbit)
It has worked just fine up until a couple of nights ago, when I noticed a torrent downloading about 180% of what was needed. And last night I noticed speeds dropping insanely and I got a Disk Overload message in the utorrent client. (I have adjusted the settings accordingly to prevent this though, and as I said before, it worked fine earlier)
I stopped everything and rebooted the computer and I saw the disk turning up in BIOS but in Windows it wasn't present. I restarted a couple of times and 2 out of 5 times Windows picked up the drive and partitions...

At this point I turned it off again and opened the case, pulled the HDD and noticed that the SATA cable didn't "click" when inserting it, and that it was also very very easy to pull. SO it seems there's a problem right there. I tried different SATA cables, all with the same result.

So, as of now, I have the computer case open, the HDD laying upside down and the SATA cable secured with a piece of electrical tape (yeah, I know this sounds highly primitive, and it's not a long-term solution) I did try to stick it back into its slot once too, but first attempt windows didn't pick it up, second I got the disk overload instantly upon downloading a torrent at full speed
When it's in this position, it works just fine.

I googled around a bit and found a tool called HD Tune and I got these reslts in the SMART

HD Tune Pro: ST2000DL003-9VT166 Health

ID                                  Current  Worst    ThresholdData         Status   
(01) Raw Read Error Rate            114      99       6        70606064     ok       
(03) Spin Up Time                   93       93       0        0            ok       
(04) Start/Stop Count               100      100      20       10           ok       
(05) Reallocated Sector Count       100      100      36       0            ok       
(07) Seek Error Rate                72       60       30       16977978     ok       
(09) Power On Hours Count           100      100      0        334          ok       
(0A) Spin Retry Count               100      100      97       0            ok       
(0C) Power Cycle Count              100      100      20       16           ok       
(B7) (unknown attribute)            100      100      0        0            ok       
(B8) End To End Error Detection     100      100      99       0            ok       
(BB) Reported Uncorrectable Errors  100      100      0        0            ok       
(BC) Command Timeout                100      100      0        4            ok       
(BD) (unknown attribute)            100      100      0        0            ok       
(BE) Airflow Temperature            63       55       45       639828005    ok       
(BF) G-sense Error Rate             100      100      0        0            ok       
(C0) Unsafe Shutdown Count          100      100      0        13           ok       
(C1) Load Cycle Count               100      100      0        17           ok       
(C2) Temperature                    37       45       0        37           ok       
(C3) Hardware ECC Recovered         36       28       0        70606064     ok       
(C5) Current Pending Sector         100      100      0        0            ok       
(C6) Offline Uncorrectable          100      100      0        0            ok       
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count      200      200      0        0            ok       
(F0) Head Flying Hours              100      253      0        320          ok       
(F1) LifeTime Writes from Host      100      253      0        -167195823   ok       
(F2) LifeTime Reads from Host       100      253      0        -1673378070  ok       

Health Status         : ok

My concerns are the posts with "errors" like Raw read error rate and Seek error rate. But accordingly to antoher post here somehwere, about a different HDD, someone said the results were normal.

Are they normal, the results I mean? Anything I should be concerned about, when it comes to these results?

And also, do I have to return the drive or can I somehow fix the glitching connector myself without being an engineer?

 

[fzabkar]

You have 4 Command Timeouts, but otherwise your SMART data appear OK.

For an explanation of Seagate's counterintuitive SMART attributes, see http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_HEC.html

That said, your drive doesn't sound healthy. :-(

 

[depomarket]

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