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Hi guys,
I have three brand new Seagate drives (2x2TB, 1x250GB). I've always bought Samsungs previously.
I like to run SpinRite (level 4/5) on my new drives, to make sure they're in good shape before I start using them. However, with these Seagate drives, the errors start stacking up as soon as I start SpinRite, the ECC and seek error counts start increasing rapidly (several million within the first few percent).
This is the same with each of the Seagate drives. (The 250GB was shipped separately.) None of my Samsung drives has ever behaved like this.
Does anyone have a good explanation? Are the drives really faulty? I immediately thought yes, but that's a heck of a coincidence!
Thanks,
Simon
I have three brand new Seagate drives (2x2TB, 1x250GB). I've always bought Samsungs previously.
I like to run SpinRite (level 4/5) on my new drives, to make sure they're in good shape before I start using them. However, with these Seagate drives, the errors start stacking up as soon as I start SpinRite, the ECC and seek error counts start increasing rapidly (several million within the first few percent).
This is the same with each of the Seagate drives. (The 250GB was shipped separately.) None of my Samsung drives has ever behaved like this.
Does anyone have a good explanation? Are the drives really faulty? I immediately thought yes, but that's a heck of a coincidence!
Thanks,
Simon