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From: Arno on 5 Apr 2010 08:14
Hi,

I have had a 500GB ST3500418AS for 5 months now. The drive looks
good on the surface, fast and quiet. Unfortunately mine has
seek problems that are not due to any external problems. These
are now bad enough that I get frequent command timeouts, about
one per hour. SMART is below.

Does anybody else have a similar problem with this drive, or
have I just gotten a bad one? I think Seagate quality really
has been down the drain for about a year or so.

Arno

--
1,Raw Read Error Rate,6,116,99,OK,102703376
3,Spin Up Time,0,97,97,OK,0
4,Start/Stop Count,20,100,100,OK,118,0,Enabled
5,Reallocated Sectors Count,36,100,100,OK,0,0,Enabled
7,Seek Error Rate,30,69,60,OK,8706938,0,Enabled
9,Power On Time Count,0,99,99,OK (Always passing),1060,0,Enabled
10,Spin Retry Count,97,100,100,OK,0,0,Enabled
12,Drive Power Cycle Count,20,100,100,OK,118,0,Enabled
183,Vendor-specific,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
184,End-to-End error,99,100,100,OK,0,0,Enabled
187,Reported Uncorrectable Errors,0,50,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
188,Command Timeout,0,100,96,OK (Always passing),466,0,Enabled
189,High Fly Writes,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
190,Airflow Temperature,45,67,54,OK,33,0,Enabled
194,Disk Temperature,0,33,46,OK (Always passing),19; 33,0,Enabled
195,Hardware ECC Recovered,0,47,25,OK (Always passing),102703376,0,Enabled
197,Current Pending Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
198,Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
199,Ultra ATA CRC Error Count,0,200,200,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
240,Head Flying Hours,0,100,253,OK (Always passing),1383,0,Enabled





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Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name
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----
Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: Yousuf Khan on 5 Apr 2010 11:18
Arno wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had a 500GB ST3500418AS for 5 months now. The drive looks
> good on the surface, fast and quiet. Unfortunately mine has
> seek problems that are not due to any external problems. These
> are now bad enough that I get frequent command timeouts, about
> one per hour. SMART is below.
>
> Does anybody else have a similar problem with this drive, or
> have I just gotten a bad one? I think Seagate quality really
> has been down the drain for about a year or so.

Hmm, don't have that exact model, I got a 500GB ST3500830AS, which is
running inside one of my oldest USB external drives. It's only problem
is that it runs continuously hot, over 50C even at idle. That's probably
because it's running in an external case. It would be much cooler if it
were inside my computer case.

Yousuf Khan
From: zappo on 5 Apr 2010 13:20

"Arno" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:81u2hoFq3gU3(a)mid.individual.net...
> Hi,
>
> I have had a 500GB ST3500418AS for 5 months now. The drive looks
> good on the surface, fast and quiet. Unfortunately mine has
> seek problems that are not due to any external problems. These
> are now bad enough that I get frequent command timeouts, about
> one per hour. SMART is below.
>
> Does anybody else have a similar problem with this drive, or
> have I just gotten a bad one? I think Seagate quality really
> has been down the drain for about a year or so.

Not surprising given that they are the only manufacturer
stupid enough to manufacture in china.

>
> Arno
>
> --
> 1,Raw Read Error Rate,6,116,99,OK,102703376
> 3,Spin Up Time,0,97,97,OK,0
> 4,Start/Stop Count,20,100,100,OK,118,0,Enabled
> 5,Reallocated Sectors Count,36,100,100,OK,0,0,Enabled
> 7,Seek Error Rate,30,69,60,OK,8706938,0,Enabled
> 9,Power On Time Count,0,99,99,OK (Always passing),1060,0,Enabled
> 10,Spin Retry Count,97,100,100,OK,0,0,Enabled
> 12,Drive Power Cycle Count,20,100,100,OK,118,0,Enabled
> 183,Vendor-specific,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
> 184,End-to-End error,99,100,100,OK,0,0,Enabled
> 187,Reported Uncorrectable Errors,0,50,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
> 188,Command Timeout,0,100,96,OK (Always passing),466,0,Enabled
> 189,High Fly Writes,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
> 190,Airflow Temperature,45,67,54,OK,33,0,Enabled
> 194,Disk Temperature,0,33,46,OK (Always passing),19; 33,0,Enabled
> 195,Hardware ECC Recovered,0,47,25,OK (Always passing),102703376,0,Enabled
> 197,Current Pending Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
> 198,Off-Line Uncorrectable Sector Count,0,100,100,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
> 199,Ultra ATA CRC Error Count,0,200,200,OK (Always passing),0,0,Enabled
> 240,Head Flying Hours,0,100,253,OK (Always passing),1383,0,Enabled
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name
> GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F
> ----
> Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans


From: Arno on 5 Apr 2010 20:54
zappo <zappo(a)wtrf.com> wrote:

> "Arno" <me(a)privacy.net> wrote in message news:81u2hoFq3gU3(a)mid.individual.net...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have had a 500GB ST3500418AS for 5 months now. The drive looks
>> good on the surface, fast and quiet. Unfortunately mine has
>> seek problems that are not due to any external problems. These
>> are now bad enough that I get frequent command timeouts, about
>> one per hour. SMART is below.
>>
>> Does anybody else have a similar problem with this drive, or
>> have I just gotten a bad one? I think Seagate quality really
>> has been down the drain for about a year or so.

> Not surprising given that they are the only manufacturer
> stupid enough to manufacture in china.

Indeed.

Arno
--
Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: arno(a)wagner.name
GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F
----
Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans
From: William R. Walsh on 6 Apr 2010 14:44
Hi!

> > Not surprising given that they are the only manufacturer
> > stupid enough to manufacture in china.
>
> Indeed.

Oh no they're not. A great many Hitachi drives are made in China these days,
typically by ExcelStor.

I may be mistaken, but I thought that Hitachi actually bought ExcelStor. Not
sure about that.

William


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