New 7200.10 hard drive is this normal?

[urmood]

Hi there,

I've got a brand new "Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM" and it seems to be very clicky and loud. I google'd it and found some folk with the same complaint, but apparently this is normal.

The problem is i initially had problems installing XP kept crashing with 39mins to go, however, it is now installed. I thought it was a broken HD due to how loud it was. Anyways i've run the "SeaTools Desktop" utility from the Seagate website and it failed the test, the log is on the link below:

Report Log

I don't know if this is normal or if i should send the drive back?

I'm running chkdsk through windows just now so i'll see what it says.

Thanks in advance for any help

 

[celliott]

I would RMA the drive mate, should be near silent really and youve got test results to prove it. OcUK are usually pretty good with returns.

 

[SiriusB]

That drive is b0rked! Seen the amount of damaged sectors?

Go on lad, get a new drive!

SiriusB

 

[urmood]

Hi celliott and SiriusB thanks for your help.

I take it this drive is busted then, here is the windows chkdsk result:

chkdsk result

Also i don't know if i want another one of these drives, i've recorded mine is this the noise they all make?

clicking mp3

Thanks again

 

[james.miller]

no, thats the noise a borked drive makes lol. drives do click, you have to expect that. but not nearly as bad as to sound out of place.

 

[gamesaregood]

48384 KB in bad sectors.

Looks borked to me for a new drive to have 48mb in bad sectors :O

Run the seagate tool on it!

 

[urmood]

Hi gamesaregood,

I did run the seagate tool as shown in my post above.

You must all be right, the drive is "borked" (that a technical term lol) so i'm gonna sort out sending it back tomorrow.

Thanks for all the advice

 

[Deleted member 58846]

lol @ that click sound! COD!! Click of Death! I once had that in a sata drive when sata very first come out, bought my m8 a amd 3200 athlon system with 2 x 320gb h/d and thats the sound I herd!! not a very nice sound especially when you just bought it!!