New HDD, HD Tune shows warning in reallocated sectors but no error in scan

[FordGT90Concept]

Seatools is still passing all the tests but as you can see, this HDD started from aroun 19k reallocated sectors and now it's up to 37752. Do you think these screenshots will be ok to convince Seagate I need a new HDD?

Retailer probably, Seagate probably not.


I assume "disk 3" is Serial # 1ER164?

 

[z1tu]

Retailer probably, Seagate probably not.


I assume "disk 3" is Serial # 1ER164?

Yep. I'm still doing write tests and just copying stuff to it, the reallocated sectors just keep going up. Current snapshot :

Edit : wow, it's seriously just struggling and constantly making clicking noises as if it were a phone on vibrate...got as low as 2.85mb/s speed

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I'd say keep going then until SeaTools generates a return code.

If you're ready to give up on it, I'd run KillDisk and make it do a 0x00 pass erase like 10 times. By the time that's done (should probably check "ignore errors"), SeaTools will throw in the towel.

 

[z1tu]

I'd say keep going then until SeaTools generates a return code.

If you're ready to give up on it, I'd run KillDisk and make it do a 0x00 pass erase like 10 times. By the time that's done (should probably check "ignore errors"), SeaTools will throw in the towel.

But can they actually check into that and claim I've somehow caused it if I run killdisk?

 

[FordGT90Concept]

Nope. All it does is do a lot of writes (reads too if you choose verify). It will delete everything it can from the drive too (like HD Tune) and that's stuff Seagate doesn't need to see anyway. All Seagate cares about is the S.M.A.R.T. data and the generated return code.

Killdisk is a data sanitization program, not a drive killer. It can deal the deathblow to failing drives though because it does perform many writes (relative to the capacity of the drive). I've actually had that happen a few times. It also tells me if there's something wrong with the read/write speed because the time it takes to finish will go up astronomically if there is a problem (like 2 hours to 8). I'd rather Killdisk off a drive than Windows because a) the drive must be shredded if there is sensitive data on it and b) I don't waste time trying to use it because the odds of encounter problems when installing Windows are also astronomically high.

 

[z1tu]

Nope. All it does is do a lot of writes (reads too if you choose verify). It will delete everything it can from the drive too (like HD Tune) and that's stuff Seagate doesn't need to see anyway. All Seagate cares about is the S.M.A.R.T. data and the generated return code.

Killdisk is a data sanitization program, not a drive killer. It can deal the deathblow to failing drives though because it does perform trillions of writes.

Ok, I'll try it out, thanks!

Update : Ok what gives, the reallocated sector count got reset

 

[ne6togadno]

Nope. All it does is do a lot of writes (reads too if you choose verify). It will delete everything it can from the drive too (like HD Tune) and that's stuff Seagate doesn't need to see anyway. All Seagate cares about is the S.M.A.R.T. data and the generated return code.

Killdisk is a data sanitization program, not a drive killer. It can deal the deathblow to failing drives though because it does perform many writes (relative to the capacity of the drive). I've actually had that happen a few times. It also tells me if there's something wrong with the read/write speed because the time it takes to finish will go up astronomically if there is a problem (like 2 hours to 8). I'd rather Killdisk off a drive than Windows because a) the drive must be shredded if there is sensitive data on it and b) I don't waste time trying to use it because the odds of encounter problems when installing Windows are also astronomically high.

+1 on this
i forgot about secure erase tools.
ans since someone mentioned towel. tones of writes will cause drive to heat up. and heat can kill drive. soooo.....
if the damn thing manage to survive this i will for making such behemoth