Seagate warranty?

[smsmasters]

I need to return a hard drive to seagate in coventry as it has bad sectors and is failing the short dst test.

Has anyone had any experiences with seagate's RMA?

 

[smsmasters]

Before the hard disk would fail the short dst and bad sectors were found when running chkdsk.

I zero filled the drive and there now no more bad sectors and it passes the short dst.

RMA it or not?

 

[smsmasters]

What sort of package did you folks use?

I have a cardboard box with foam and an ESD cover that I could package the hard drive in.