[ale] Palimpsest Disk Utility

[Robert Coggins]

I hear of a lot of problems with the 500GB seagates.  Usually not good
outcomes.  From what I understand is that seagate is quick to replace
these drives.

Rob

Scott Castaline 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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