G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 First time poster here, Love the show. Matter of fact I am a Computer Information Technology instructor at a Collage and love showing the computer segments of your show to my class. They really liked the hard drive burrito. Anyway I just got a 6tb WD red drive of eBay with 41 bad sector and am currently running check disk on it. Has about 400 hours of run time and was made in Aug 2014.The sell acts like that it’s no big deal. WD Lifeguard quick smart test passed. Should I be worried? By the way WD warranty checker says it out….Here is the quota from the seller “HD the way it build always has extra 10% of hidden capacity, 600 gb. Table record all info from the build, 41 bad sector out of millions is nothing. As matter fact, those sector had been closed and replaced with extra sector. We bought these drives as a big bulks, S/N may not in their end user listed. If you have problem, you can claim for replacement. But you claim it as a gift because I am private seller, not their authorized dealer. They will base on manufacture date on label which Aug 2014 and send you replacement. Very easy, my customer told me about it and they prefer claim from them. Anyhow, your drive is fine. You won’t have any issue. We tested them every single tracks. “ Any thought or help would be helpful. Thanks and can’t wait for the next show. First rule about my post, don’t talk about Quadcopters. Second rule about my post, don’t talk about Quadcopters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Brand Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Wow that sounds super sketchy. While you could run SpinRite and probably be fine, I would look up the serial # on Western Digital's RMA page. If it's eligible for a RMA replacement, then do it. If it's not, but should be, then you might want to look into whether the eBay seller is running a scam to liquidate drives with errors from his own inventory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Gilbert Knarr Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Jeff beat me about SpinRite. But the seller is correct that drives are built with "extra" sectors because there are always some bad ones. If you have 6Tb available and the drive isn't on the RMA list you should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Hamlett Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Both people beat me to Spinrite. .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Brand Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 Finally, waking up early pays off... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Timothy Hamlett Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 OK, if you think that there is any chance that a hard drive you bought online has malware on it, you should DBAN it first thing (well, that's what I do to all new drives other than SSDs that is). And yes, Jeff Brand , waking up early pays off.... I wish I could have.... #netflix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 14, 2015 Author Share Posted April 14, 2015 maybe like Jeff said scam to liquidate drives, he did sell 37 of these drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 14, 2015 Share Posted April 14, 2015 If in doubt, you could run spinr.... Wait a minute! 41 probably isn't that big of a deal. I think I've heard that Red drives are designed to be used in a RAID configuration where more bad sectors isn't a big deal, so if 41 is a lot normally it may be by design here. Also, as Jeff said it wouldn't hurt to check WD for warranty. They replaced my 2TB with a new 3TB and it was a month past warranty expiration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 well its now 583 bad sectors after check disk ran, it did say it fixed some, Filed a email claim with WD. so we will see what happens. If the dont replace it. May file a claim with ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Gilbert Knarr Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 How much space is showing available now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 5.54tb, using wd software to zero out the drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Jeff Brand Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 If you haven't run a long test/detailed scan from the WD utility or other SMART-aware software, now would be the time. smartmontools over at SourceForge provides a Windows version of smartctl, a very cool utility for reading SMART data from your hard drive. With this, you'll be able to get some data about how many sectors have been replaced, actual operation hours and a lot more. The output isn't always easy to decipher and vendor specific. You'll also be able to trigger tests and read results of past tests. Hopefully between the long test and operating hours, someone at WD will realize that the drive is too unstable for its age and replace it. As many TWiT fans who follow Security Now will tell you, Steve Gibson (SpinRite's author and hard drive expert) has said many times that he stays away from the largest drives on the market. There's so much data crammed into such a small physical space that the only reason they work at all is because of multiple redundant error correction mechanisms. It follows that drives on the leading edge, as far as drive capacities, may tend to have glitches or design flaws that show up more rapidly. This may be the case, with no malice intended by the seller. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 Thanks, I also have another 6tb and a 5tb red wd, they have been working great for 2 months Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 15, 2015 Author Share Posted April 15, 2015 lol 621 bad sectors now, I would say it is going bad, Im in talks with wd for a replacement. We'll see Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Brandon Rives Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 WD Made it right and rma me a new drive that works great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Ben Reese Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 That's the best advertisement a company can get: happy customers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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