Got myself a new Seagate drive (ST4000DM005) and run on it all the tests from SeaTools as soon as installed.
At the end of the longer test overnight smart was showing a value of 928 (0000000003A0) for "Reallocated Sectors Count", but it passed the SeaTools test.
I contact Seagate's support to get more info and ask if this is a normal behavior and in the first email they simply state how 928 is "not a very high number"(quote).
On my request of more clarification the asked me to provide the smart data (98|98|10|928 // Cur.|Wor.|Thr.|Raw) and in the following email simply state how smart data is read differently on third party programs and should rely on SeaTools to read the smart data, but "the SeaTools does not give these raw values so we will not be able to identify the exact number of reallocated sectors. Appreciate your understanding in this case."(quote).
At this point is clear it's a waste of time to ask the support for a real reply, does anybody here know if the smart data for the Reallocated Sectors Count is accurate or is some weird proprietary value like read & seek errors?
At the end of the longer test overnight smart was showing a value of 928 (0000000003A0) for "Reallocated Sectors Count", but it passed the SeaTools test.
I contact Seagate's support to get more info and ask if this is a normal behavior and in the first email they simply state how 928 is "not a very high number"(quote).
On my request of more clarification the asked me to provide the smart data (98|98|10|928 // Cur.|Wor.|Thr.|Raw) and in the following email simply state how smart data is read differently on third party programs and should rely on SeaTools to read the smart data, but "the SeaTools does not give these raw values so we will not be able to identify the exact number of reallocated sectors. Appreciate your understanding in this case."(quote).
At this point is clear it's a waste of time to ask the support for a real reply, does anybody here know if the smart data for the Reallocated Sectors Count is accurate or is some weird proprietary value like read & seek errors?