[pchelpers] better understanding of Hard Drives

I wanted to get a better understanding of hard drives.

Spinrite is reporting a drive with over 2 million seek errors and over 
106 million ecc errors.

I am correct in my understanding that this means the drive is bad?

This is a Seagate 500g.

It is only a week old and it is a replacement for a drive that I sent back.
In fact this is the 5th replacement this year.

Are Seagate 500 gigs drive that bad?

(I'm still waiting on my replacement for my Maxtor 200 gig drive for the 
2nd time this year)


Dallas


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