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A nice little tool ReelFiles turned me onto today....

 

HDD Health...it tells you the health of your drives...I found out today the Seagate 160gb drive I had suffered from being loaded with Vista and all that thrashing it was doing took a toll on the drive...drive health is 61%

 

http://www.panterasoft.com/

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Not on mine, I have defragged it many times. I see similar results with HDDs I test at work, which are also manufactured by Seagate. The proprietary software we use at work to determine whether HDDs are fit for server applications is similar to this app.

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Not sure I follow?

Are you thinking the software has a flaw?

Seagates require a special (manufacturer) test.

Or that you have seen a lot of Seagate drives with poor test results at work?

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You and bowtie started this :)

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What he's saying is they see the same results at his work with different software....so it's not a flaw in HDD but with Seagate in general...

 

I did defragment and I also did a scandisk and neither helped....I noticed under load of the drive the number will drop but after letting it cool down it comes right back....

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I think seagate/maxtor is crap, those are the only drives that have ever gone bad one me, and I've had a lot of drives over the years. Maxtor used to be decent, but now that Seagate bought them they are going down the drain.

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