SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL SERIAL NUMBER
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SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL WINDOWS

Reading the large file produced 184 MB/s. Writing a large 3Gb file from SSD to Seagate gave me 176 MB/s.

SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL WINDOWS

I then tested standard windows file transfers from my SSD to the Seagate.

SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL DRIVERS

So I uninstalled all the turbo boost (also probably one of the reasons they never produced drivers for windows 10). But, any queued and threaded tests were halved - which are more realistic tests given that I will be transferring hundreds of thousands of smaller files. I then read this thing about my motherboard having USB 3.0 boost, so tried it out (after installing older win 8.1 drivers) and sure enough, performance jumped to 210.8 read and 204.8 write. My ASUS A87-A motherboard has dedicated USB 3.0 ports so I immediately relocated the connection.įirst test, straight out of the box, gave me sequential 184.5 MB/s read and 142.5 MB/s write. I initially plugged the drive into a USB 2.0 port and realised this as soon as I ran Crystal Disk Mark which was reporting transfer speeds of 42 MB/s. The drive passed with flying colours (please note that with Seagate drives, Crystal Disk Info appears to report errors, in fact you only need to be concerned with the first 4 digits (on the left) of the RAW results and not the last 8 (on the right) which are hexadecimal values of how many times a drive was accessed. The first thing I checked were seek errors and rewritten sectors using Crystal Disk Info. This is the cheapest 8TB you can get today! Yesterday, as I was browsing amazon, the price of this external drive dropped 25%.

SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL PRO

I was debating for several weeks whether or not to go for this drive given the price, or a bare Barracuda Pro drive which I could hot-plug into my computer. I was very hesitant to get a SMR type drive as I've heard so much about their slow writing speeds. So it was time to invest in a 8TB drive to backup all my data, which I could then place in a fireproof safe. I have a spindle stacked with almost 100 blu-ray disks retrieving a RAW file from an older disk is a real pain in the bum! I'm a hobbyist photographer fed up burning archival blurays in chunks of 25Gb and then having to use an outdated tool (Octopus DVD indexer) to catalogue which files are on which disks.

SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL UPGRADE

I was looking to backup almost 4TB of photos from my NAS which is running out of space and needs an upgrade soon. Received this drive today, thought I would provide some speed test results whilst I'm running SeaTools in the background, a long test which will take just under 20 hours for this 8TB drive! This does not inspire huge amounts of confidence, but I also understand some errors can occur when dealing with such large amounts of data. As I paid for the 3 year recovery plan when purchasing the drive, I'm now just crossing my fingers. I've copied the 5TB of files back onto it, without any issues. It hasn't given me any problems for the last month. I concluded there was no point in returning the drive if it is no longer reporting errors: I'll just be sending it to a repair shop only for it to be sent back with a clean bill of health. So I ran both short DST and long generic, and both passed! They told me this wasn't normal and they would replace the drive immediately provided SeaTools failed the Long Generic test. Opened up Crystal Disk Info, and to my amazement, no more errors, the drive showing as good:īB _49 _00000033 Reported Uncorrectable ErrorsĬoncerned, I contacted Seagate by phone.

SEAGATE SEATOOLS SHORT DST FAIL SERIAL NUMBER

A few days later, before shipping, thought I should copy the drive serial number to see whether the repair process would result in a replacement or repair. When the drive was finally erased (files deleted - not formatted, as I understand this might clear SMART errors) it was still showing errors. Whilst moving its contents to a different drive, only one file failed to copy. So I initiated an Amazon return as the drive is still under warranty. I immediately ran SeaTools (several times, with computer reboots in between) but it failed on all occasions: After 15 months of ownership and fewer than 30 power-on cycles, the drive began producing errors:Ġ5 000000000008 Reallocated Sectors CountīB 000000000033 Reported Uncorrectable ErrorsĬ5 000000000010 Current Pending Sector CountĬ6 000000000010 Uncorrectable Sector Count

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