new F3 - some bad blocks

aardvark · 25 Sep 2009 at 09:31

i've had my 1tb F3 for a week and had some trouble last night - azureus finished a file and the check failed, couldn't read part of the data.
did a full chkdsk and it found a few bad blocks (4 i think) (all of which had azureus data on).
anyway, seems fine on boot up.
i have been playing fallout 3 whilst azureus was running and had a few crashes.
is this a problem?
or if i get no more bad blocks can i assume it will be fine?

aardvark · 25 Sep 2009 at 10:07

i'll do a surface scan in hdtune tonight then.

i would rather not rma it - i've already filled it with loads of stuff!
if its just a one off and not an indication that the drive will die then i'll be happy with that.

aardvark · 25 Sep 2009 at 13:56

do you know which is the best tool to use for the F3's? the samsung website seems a bit confusing.
shdiag??

aardvark · 25 Sep 2009 at 14:18

that es tool seems older than shdiag?

aardvark · 27 Sep 2009 at 11:09

well, o&o shows the marked bad blocks (12 in total) and hdtune only finds the bad ones already marked and i've had no trouble since.

as it happened on only areas with azureus files and i had a crash whilst downloading - i'm pretty sure its a one off and i'm going to stick with it.
everything is backed up and any sign of new problems and it will be rma'd.

aardvark · 28 Sep 2009 at 20:50

well, i have another bad block that just appeared out of nowhere.

looks like i'm going to have to RMA it.

aardvark · 28 Sep 2009 at 22:30

Paddyw01 said:
Are you going to ask for a replacement or refund?

replacement - i still need a 1tb hard drive and you would think this is a rare occurrence.
in fact i don't think i've ever had this problem in the many many hard drives i've owned over the years and nobody else seems to have a problem with the new F3's.

aardvark · 28 Sep 2009 at 23:05

aaron333 said:
RMA's through here. They stopped using Rexo a while back.

thanks but its only a week old so it falls under OcUK's responsibility

bad luck guys.