Seagate 7200.2 dying?

[ratdude747]

I was doing some work on a system with an 80gb PATA seagate 7200.2 and I noted that the SMART data indicates it has 2353 bad sectors.

Should I look to replace the drive or is this just a minor loss in capacity?

[c_hegge]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

Test it with Seatools and see how many errors it gets. If it's any more than 3, I replace the drive.

[dood]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

In general, I consider any drive with bad sectors to be... bad.

[Agent24]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

I was doing some work on a system with an 80gb PATA seagate 7200.2 and I noted that the SMART data indicates it has 2353 bad sectors.

Should I look to replace the drive or is this just a minor loss in capacity?

I assume you mean reallocated and\or pending sectors? If so, the drive has big issues. Backup now and replace.

[PCBONEZ]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

7200.2 were the first Seagate laptop drives to use PRM. (Perpendicular Recording)
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I don't trust PRM, especially the first generation.
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I seek out 7200.1 series for my own laptops.
Those were the last to not use PRM.
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I don't remember when desktop Seagates changed to PRM because I use WD for those.
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[ratdude747]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

i see

I was installing a new OS on it when I found the issue... it had been a tad bit quirky and before I formatted it with a live linux disc, I used disk utility to check the SMART data and it said it was "good with a few bad sectors". I then looked at the detailed report and found the bad sector count...

it wouldn't be the first 7200.2 to die on me... I had a 160gb SATA one go out in a similar fashion...

Looks like I am short a desktop hdd now...

[Agent24]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

Well if it still seems to function you can still use it, just remember not to trust it and remember that soon it might die completely just when you really need to use it.

Drives like this are good to test out new versions of Linux, Windows and other OSs and for general non-critical playing around, where a failure isn't going to inconvenience you too much.

Of course really, all drives should be treated the same way, but with this one, you know there's something up.

[ratdude747]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

CORRECTION:

i removed the drive and found that it is a 7200.7, not a 7200.2. same for the 160gb (you can blame my bad memory)

does that make any difference?

(for now, I am swapping the drive for a WD400 I stole from a computer that is not in use... )

[Agent24]

Re: Seagate 7200.2 dying?

No, it doesn't make any difference.

Any drive with 2000+ failed sectors has something pretty wrong with it.