Seagate drive was replaced 6 months ago and I have bad sectors again!

[npolite]

Hello Everyone,

I purchased a Seagate ST980825A 7200.1 80GB 7200 RPM 2.5" IDE drive back in Oct 2007. I started getting blue screens in December and localized them to bad sectors on the HD. I think they grew from 4 to about 11 before I sent the drive in. I got a replacement and it was fine up until today that I decided to run a HD Tune of the bad sectors. This time I got about 30 bad sectors. I am running SeaTools for the 2nd time about (60 Errors) to repair the sectors but it looks like they are unrepairable so the drive will have to be sent in again The original IBM drive was a 5400 RPM and I went to a 7200 RPM. The temp of the new drive usually runs between 32-35 degrees Celsius but can jump to 40-42 if I run scans from HD tune. Are these number high for a 2.5" HD? I have some old 3.5" Maxtor drives that have been running for years at 42C without any problems. The drive's power on time shows as 325 hr so there hasn't been much on it. I'm probably not going to insure this since it's probably not worth it but will send it back to get it replaced.

 

[npolite]

After the last 2 SeaTool checks the error count went from 30 to 18 so I still have a problem with the drive.

Update: I ran a 3rd repair scan and the errors went from 18 to 14. Should I continue to try to repair it or RMA it back?

 

[Pointertovoid]

Any number of bad sectors, properly diagnosed by the manufacturer's software as you did, means a dead disk. Back to Seagate. They must re-learn to build disks.

Temperature has no importance for Hdd, according to Google's published experience.