[ale] Palimpsest Disk Utility

[Scott Castaline]

On 07/23/2009 05:51 PM, Robert Coggins wrote:
> 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
>
Are you referring to the Firmware causing the drives to lock-up and not 
work anymore once powered off? I believe that was on the 7200.11 series 
which has been resolved. I have the 7200.12 series and I can't seem to 
find any negative feed back on them yet. It's a nice compact unit about 
1/4 height, basically the height of a laptop HDD.

> 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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