HDD:
Western Digital Red 3TB
Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Firmware: 80.00A80
Enclosure:
Rosewill RX-358 U3C
OS:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Program:
HDDScan for testing over usb 2.0
I purchased a new HDD for media storage purposes and was running it through its paces. I ran a "verify" surface scan(read would have taken longer over usb 2.0) and it was clean with only a few sector in the 150ms range. I started to run an "erase" scan and a solid string of bad sectors popped up after a section of "normal" sectors on the beginning of the disk.
I wanted to verify if this was an error due to the program, interface, etc., or if the drive was actually faulty. Its going straight back to amazon for replacement if its faulty.
I can post the verify test results if anyone needs to see them.
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE:
Erase scan after running for a while. Continues as completely full of bad sectors aside from the initial segment. My thoughts so far are that its supposed to look that was during the test and the initial segment is left alone because it contains partition/GPT data.
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Western Digital Red 3TB
Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0
Firmware: 80.00A80
Enclosure:
Rosewill RX-358 U3C
OS:
Windows 7 Home Premium
Program:
HDDScan for testing over usb 2.0
I purchased a new HDD for media storage purposes and was running it through its paces. I ran a "verify" surface scan(read would have taken longer over usb 2.0) and it was clean with only a few sector in the 150ms range. I started to run an "erase" scan and a solid string of bad sectors popped up after a section of "normal" sectors on the beginning of the disk.
I wanted to verify if this was an error due to the program, interface, etc., or if the drive was actually faulty. Its going straight back to amazon for replacement if its faulty.
I can post the verify test results if anyone needs to see them.
Thanks for any help.
UPDATE:
Erase scan after running for a while. Continues as completely full of bad sectors aside from the initial segment. My thoughts so far are that its supposed to look that was during the test and the initial segment is left alone because it contains partition/GPT data.
