First of all, Hi, my name is Edward. I just found this forum a few minutes ago. I'm not the hit-and-run type, especially when it comes to forums... anyway, to the point.. I just bought a Seagate Momentus 100GB 5400RPM Harddrive about three days ago and I ran HDDLife Pro and Hard Drive Inspector and they both said that my drive was failing... To make sure of matters, I ran Seagate's Seatools and ran full tests on the Drive controller and Hard drive itself. It found 1 bad sector, which it fixed soon after, but it said that the S.M.A.R.T. test passed. I had the idea that harddrive moitoring software like HDDLife pro and Hard Drive Inspector got it's results from the integrated S.M.A.R.T., but why would Seagate's software say it passed fine, but the other software says my drive is critically close to failure? Raw Read Error Rate, Power On Hours Count, Spin-up time and Load/Unload Cycle Count is said to be very low...can anyone help me with this? Maybe this software is just crappy, but I'm not for sure. Thanks!
I actually had SMART tell me that my drive was failing a few years ago, and it was right. So make sure you backup frequently just incase.
