Seagate 3TB drive Failing?

Rensin · 12 Jun 2014 at 18:38

Hi,

I have 2x Seagate 3TB drives in my homeserver and 1 of the drives whilst copying large files from will drop midway copying files. (can stream from the drive fine)

HDtune & Crystaldisk shows 2/3 errors and as the drive is just about full shall i replace now as would rather not loose everything? ... thought both drives were still in warranty but just checked and there is no warranty on the drive :mad:

I thought the st3000dm001 drive came with 2 years warranty?

Frozennova · 12 Jun 2014 at 18:49

I'd consider that dead and would be getting the data off it ASAP, that's a lot of relocated and uncorrectable sectors.

Personally I'd shy away from drives like this for home server duties and be using WD Reds, the small increase in price is well worth the additional two years warranty, RAID and backups are a must on a home server for me as well. Drop out the drive send away for replacement and pop the new drive back in and allow it to rebuild, RAID6 means I can do this while still maintaining redundancy allowing for another drive failure

Rensin · 12 Jun 2014 at 20:44

Frozennova said:
I'd consider that dead and would be getting the data off it ASAP, that's a lot of relocated and uncorrectable sectors.

Personally I'd shy away from drives like this for home server duties and be using WD Reds, the small increase in price is well worth the additional two years warranty, RAID and backups are a must on a home server for me as well. Drop out the drive send away for replacement and pop the new drive back in and allow it to rebuild, RAID6 means I can do this while still maintaining redundancy allowing for another drive failure

cheers, don't have another drive to back everything up but all important stuff is backed up to another drive and online incase it does go.

Have sent the retailer an email asking if I can rma the drive as warranty ran out 7 weeks ago but already know what the answer will be :rolleyes:

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demon8991 · 13 Jun 2014 at 03:36

Frozennova said:
I'd consider that dead and would be getting the data off it ASAP, that's a lot of relocated and uncorrectable sectors.

Personally I'd shy away from drives like this for home server duties and be using WD Reds, the small increase in price is well worth the additional two years warranty, RAID and backups are a must on a home server for me as well. Drop out the drive send away for replacement and pop the new drive back in and allow it to rebuild, RAID6 means I can do this while still maintaining redundancy allowing for another drive failure

+1 WD Red drives are much more reliable, until I see reliability get better with Seagate I refuse to buy them especially for a RAID/NAS environment.

I would look in to getting a new drive ASAP and doing a direct replacement and sending off the Seagate for a replacement.

Frozennova · 13 Jun 2014 at 07:57

Rensin said:
cheers, don't have another drive to back everything up but all important stuff is backed up to another drive and online incase it does go.

Have sent the retailer an email asking if I can rma the drive as warranty ran out 7 weeks ago but already know what the answer will be .

Depends on the retailer, I bought a drive from ocuk that was outside of the manufacturers warranty by a few weeks and they still replaced it

Rensin · 13 Jun 2014 at 11:32

demon8991 said:
+1 WD Red drives are much more reliable, until I see reliability get better with Seagate I refuse to buy them especially for a RAID/NAS environment.

I would look in to getting a new drive ASAP and doing a direct replacement and sending off the Seagate for a replacement.

drive is no longer in warranty so no replacement

Frozennova said:
Depends on the retailer, I bought a drive from ocuk that was outside of the manufacturers warranty by a few weeks and they still replaced it

had a reply back today and answer was no to a replacement, will grab the WD Red 4TB drive and spend the weekend copying the files over.

thanks for the help.