What settings you set on Acronis Drive Monitor, and what is the problem shown?
What test you runs on SeaTools?
What is your hard disk model?

It is a interesting sharing..........

anyone tried buffalo?

for acronis i didnt change any settings.

the problem shown on acronis:

drive c Seagate ST3200822A capacity 200GB
Reallocated Sectors Count raw value 11, value 100, threshold 36, status Critical
Monitoring: S.M.A.R.T.
Power on time:
868 day(s)
Disk health: 78%. <a href="0">Learn more about disk health</a>.
Disk temperature: 37 °C.
Reallocated Sectors count S.M.A.R.T. attribute reported bad block on the drive. Increasing number of bad blocks may be an indicator of imminent drive failure. In this case frequent backup and hardware replacement is recommended.


drive e Seagate ST31000528AS capacity 1000GB
Reallocated Sectors Count raw value 52, value 99, threshold 36, status Critical
Monitoring: S.M.A.R.T.
Power on time:
491 day(s)
Disk health: 30%
Health of the disk is below the warning level at 70. Decreasing disk health may be an indicator of imminent disk failure. Review the S.M.A.R.T. attributes and/or monitoring script messages to determine cause of the problem. <a href="1">Get help online</a>.
Disk temperature: 33 °C.
Reallocated Sectors count S.M.A.R.T. attribute reported bad block on the drive. Increasing number of bad blocks may be an indicator of imminent drive failure. In this case frequent backup and hardware replacement is recommended.


tests that i ran on seatools were:
c:
Short DST - Started 22/09/2010 11:14:57 PM
Short DST - Pass 22/09/2010 11:15:59 PM
Long DST - Started 22/09/2010 11:22:28 PM
Long DST - Pass 23/09/2010 12:39:21 AM
SMART - Pass 21/09/2011 10:05:46
Long DST - Started 21/09/2011 10:06:18
Long DST - Pass 21/09/2011 11:25:08
Identify - Started 22/09/2011 7:23:28
Long Generic - Started 22/09/2011 7:24:13
Long Generic - Pass 22/09/2011 8:47:29

e:
SMART - Pass 21/09/2011 10:01:23
Short DST - Started 21/09/2011 10:03:14
Short DST - Pass 21/09/2011 10:04:14
Long DST - Started 21/09/2011 10:05:05
Long DST Aborted 21/09/2011 10:05:18
SMART - Pass 21/09/2011 10:06:01
Long DST - Started 21/09/2011 10:06:25
Long DST - Pass 22/09/2011 12:51:00
Identify - Started 22/09/2011 7:23:28
Long Generic - Started 22/09/2011 7:24:19
Long Generic - Pass 22/09/2011 10:05:00

Thanks for the feedback, it seems the SeaTools does not provide enough feedback on its threshold, but you should consider warranty your Seagate ST31000528AS capacity 1000GB which is quite serious consider the Reallocated Sectors Count is quite high, you should backup your data immediately if it's critical and send for warranty, in this case you might need to shows SMART test result instead of SeaTools result since it's does not gives reliable information.

tq for input. seagate guy said i have to use seatools for warranty. i will try ask them again. yes i am backing up (daily now). thanks.

Regarding your D drive, is it the Seagate 1TB? If yes you should re-run the Long DST, it seems to abort in the middle of something, or is it failed mid-way?
Just noticed the "Aborted" when I read through the result again.

D drive? did u mean E drive... yes its seagate 1tb. yes i aborted but ran again later...it passed. tq

Is Samsung 1TB Spinpoint F3 suitable for File server?
I'm planning to use 2 1TB Spinpoint F3 with RAID 1 configuration for file server. It's for office usage.

Do recommend if there's any other better hard disk. At the same time, I would need another hard disk for CCTV DVR usage. Please recommend. Thanks a lot.

What a good harddisk that ONLY for save entertainment file like musics,movies and installer? Big size around 1-2TB if got 4TB its better.

This post has been edited by amirudin920927: Sep 22 2011, 09:02 PM

dear sifus,

may i know do i need to print the RMA form to send in my samsung hard disk for warranty? the RMA form indicate i have to send the hdd to singapore.

anyone knows where can i send it locally ?

i just pass over to my local samsung service centre, got the replacement within 10-days

edit:
http://www.samsung.com/my/support/location...ERVICE.LOCATION

This post has been edited by sotong168: Sep 22 2011, 11:29 PM

nice! thanks!

Yes, the Samsung 1TB F3 is suitable, with RAID1, if you prefer Western Digital, there's the Carviar Green 1TB which is much suitable using software RAID.
CCTV, any HDD will do, even the Samsung 1TB F3 is ok, but would be much better using a green HDD (slow spindle speed) for lower temperature since most DVR does not come with proper ventilation.

WDC currently has the 3TB Carviar Green, you can consider that, that's the largest capacity AFAIK.
I, myself using Samsung F4 2TB (largest capacity from Samsung for now)

I using 4pcs 2TB F3 samsung for NAS raid. 1 down and replace with the same model. The HDD still can run just not good shape for raid.

For file server, NAS or cctv, get the lowest RPM spin possible. It last longer. You don't need speed for this kind of application.

yes. you can see some people did "short stroke" with their harddisk, because single platter seems not "fast" for him/her. they want to write/read access to become short, thats why they did that even though that size will decrease. single platter 1TB will only use single disk to store data so read/write data will slightly quick.

did make a survey in several shops around kuala lumpur and still no shops have stocks. probably still not being release by manufacturer yet. they still sell thick 1TB drive which contain 2 disks.

Short stroking, to be blunt, is stupid.

You can get the same thing by partitioning the first 20% of any HDD. The remaining 80% of capacity you can then format for your data and other stuff.

And even a cheap, low-capacity, budget SSD will still crush, kill and destroy a short-stroked HDD in performance.

Hi , what is the cheapest price of Samsung F3 1TB Hard Disc ? I only can find the lowest is RM 168

Hi guys,
Can you recommend me a good and reliable external hard disk with firewire or USB?
Preferably firewire

I'm sorry if I post at wrong thread.

any1 know any software that works like crystal disk info?

can recommend me 1 becoz crystal doesnt detect raid