[ale] Palimpsest Disk Utility

[Greg Freemyer]

Scott,

My experience with high-density Seagate drives for the last year or so
has been poor.  But it has mostly been total drive crashes, not bad
sectors.  (I use a lot of drives in the course of a year.  a couple
hundred or more.)

I'm not saying the others are better, I mostly use Seagate.

Greg

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Scott Castaline<skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether this utility is accurate? I had just before
> doing a fresh install bought 2 Seagate 500GB SATA II HDDs. I used one to
> back up my old volumes and the other has my music files. Just the other
> day I suddenly got a warning that one of my disk drives were failing.
> When I opened up the message it launched the above mentioned utility
> with the offending drive high lighted. It said that I had 8 bad sectors
> that had been reallocated. I reran the test and it was fine after that.
> Today while the updates were being updated the error occurred again,
> this time it reported 11 sectors were bad on the same drive. The drive
> is the other brand new drive. My 2 year old Western Digital 500GB and I
> also have a 1 yr old Seagate 500GB that are both ok. I noticed that the
> new drives were half the height of the older drives, so I assume that it
> has 500GB on a single platter, unless if the Chinese are able to make
> the heads and platters thin enough to hold 2 platters and the required
> amount of heads, better than they were in Singapore.
>
> So actually I have 2 questions from my long dissertation; 1. Is this
> utility accurate? 2. Has anyone have any negative experiences with these
> newer 500GB drives from Seagate (ST3500410AS)?
>
> TIA
> Scott
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