I paid $12.95 for a shipping label which will come with the replacement drive in 3-5 business days. He got me over to support where they set it up. Well, I called Seagate (1.800.732.4283), got tech support within 5 minutes and explained, the guy said I should do a warranty replacement. What would that be?Įdit: I didn't open up the enclosure of the failing USB HD, but on the bottom of the enclosure it says, literally my failing USB HD says 1ER166 (got this from Seatools). Now, I bought my ST3000DM001 HDs in May 2014, much later than the HDs with a high rate of failure discussed in the link at the OP, which are from ~2 years earlier. I'm thinking that the message above could well assure that there are too many bad sectors, period. I have a handful of Seagate IDE HDs that haven't failed me, had them for around 10 years. As well, the WD drives were warranted for only 1 year. In short, I've found them highly unreliable. One reason I bought the Seagate drives is because I've had 3-4 failures using Western Digital 2TB ELEMENTS USB hard drives. I got the idea of running the Fix test(s) from Seagate's How to use Seatools page. I am thinking about calling Seagate, think maybe I should run more tests including the Fix tests, which attempt to fix bad sectors. I think the important data is backed up elsewhere, have to make sure about that. This is the same as the ~5000 HDs that are reported as highly problematic in the link in the OP! System overhead, or other applications running at the same time.Īs you can see in the above quoted Seatools' message, the drive model is ST3000DM001. This could be caused by largeĭrive capacity, excessive retries, multiple drives under test, The Generic Short Test passed, but the Generic Long Test was extremely slow and put up this message twice (I ran the test again having rebooted the computer, and had no other apps running): After the failure a couple of days ago I ran Seatools tests on it (the Basic Tests, which Seatools says will not alter data, they are read only). The drive has 827 hours of use on it, only 131GB of data, currently. I've gotten several Delayed Write Failed errors using one of the drives. I bought three Seagate Backup Plus 3TB USB hard drives one day at Costco a little over a year ago.
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