Seagate seatools long generic fail serial number#

Received this drive today, thought I would provide some speed test results whilst I'm running SeaTools in the background, a long test which will take just under 20 hours for this 8TB drive! This does not inspire huge amounts of confidence, but I also understand some errors can occur when dealing with such large amounts of data. As I paid for the 3 year recovery plan when purchasing the drive, I'm now just crossing my fingers. I've copied the 5TB of files back onto it, without any issues. It hasn't given me any problems for the last month. I concluded there was no point in returning the drive if it is no longer reporting errors: I'll just be sending it to a repair shop only for it to be sent back with a clean bill of health. So I ran both short DST and long generic, and both passed! They told me this wasn't normal and they would replace the drive immediately provided SeaTools failed the Long Generic test. Opened up Crystal Disk Info, and to my amazement, no more errors, the drive showing as good:īB _49 _00000033 Reported Uncorrectable ErrorsĬoncerned, I contacted Seagate by phone.

Seagate seatools long generic fail serial number#

A few days later, before shipping, thought I should copy the drive serial number to see whether the repair process would result in a replacement or repair. When the drive was finally erased (files deleted - not formatted, as I understand this might clear SMART errors) it was still showing errors. Whilst moving its contents to a different drive, only one file failed to copy. So I initiated an Amazon return as the drive is still under warranty. I immediately ran SeaTools (several times, with computer reboots in between) but it failed on all occasions: After 15 months of ownership and fewer than 30 power-on cycles, the drive began producing errors:Ġ5 000000000008 Reallocated Sectors CountīB 000000000033 Reported Uncorrectable ErrorsĬ5 000000000010 Current Pending Sector CountĬ6 000000000010 Uncorrectable Sector Count