Samsung 1.5TB F2 problems

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I purchased a new Samsung 1.5TB F2, but am having problems with the drive.

I already own one of these drives, and it's worked perfectly on my P55 board, so can't see it being driver or other hardware.

After installing, I partitioned the drive using Computer Management XP64, and formatted to NTFS. This failed to format, and Healthy (at risk) message was placed beside the drive. I eventually managed to format the drive using normal format command.

I am using Intel Rapid Storage technology, and a warning was placed for new drive. I also checked using SpeedTest, and following is reported from the SMART status.

Raw Read Error Rate Value 21 Worst 15 Warn 51, status is saying read failure.

I am also getting a warning in CrystalDiskInfo.

I copied some files to the drive, and reading back OS returned read errors.

Is it safe to presume the drive is faulty? As mentioned I have another identical drive (12 months old), and that works perfectly.
 
It might be worth running chkdsk (which may not be relevant in this case)...

However, if that doesn't sort it, I would run ES-Tool (it was only the floppy version of this that worked for me) to see what the Samsung dianostic utility reports...if it reports problems, then RMA it...
 
Thanks for your reply. I downloaded the CD bootable version of what you posted.

The drive failed the diagnostic, i'm going to return it.

Also just to make sure, I swapped SATA cable (and port) with the exisiting 1.5TB Samsung and still had the same issues.
 
The drive failed the diagnostic, i'm going to return it.

Also just to make sure, I swapped SATA cable (and port) with the exisiting 1.5TB Samsung and still had the same issues.
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I would RMA it then...
 
Quick update, it was returned to OCUK, and OCUK sent out a new one a couple of days later. New drive is working fine, so it's all good.
 
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