HD Tune Showing Strange Results For New Seagate 2TB Drive

august80

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Hey all,

I've recently picked up a new Seagate 2TB drive - model ST2000DM001. I just ran HD Tune on it as I usually do with new drives and got some pretty inconsistent results (at least to me!). The drive passes all Seatools Tests, Passes Short and Long Error Scan in HD Tune, the drive is also listed as "Health Status: OK" and all Health tabs values check out as "OK". However - this is what the health status values look like:

http://imgur.com/JNNj9cu

The error, airflow, etc. values are all over the place - despite reading "OK". Is there perhaps a communication problem between HD Tune and the drive, or perhaps the drive is dying and it just hasn't hit a certain threshold? I did read a few forums posts that some Seagate drives do not post correct information to HD Tune - and often report high Read / Seek Error Rates when there is actually no problem.

Here is the benchmark test:

http://imgur.com/zabdn0Z

Any help would be amazing. Don't want to RMA a drive in the case that this is a just a software problem not a hardware one. :)


Thanks!