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new drive without package: return it?

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ok, these are only soft errors and it seems to be normal. The disk has no failure and ECC is doing its job.

 

This is a 3 TB mechanical drive from Seagate, the model is ST3000DM007-1WY10G.

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hello,

 

I bought a new drive today. The drive is sold as new. In the store I asked why it has no packaging and the seller told me he only used it once to make a system backup. He showed me in the store the drive has a operation lifetime of 1 hour, which is true.

 

I mounted the drive, deleted the partition table and formated 1 partition EXT4. Then I verified s.m.a.r.t, it has issues of type Old_age and Pre-fail.

Then, I copied a couple of large files to the partition, the error rates increased every time.

 

here the test result, left: before, right: after

 

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1. is it normal for a brand new drive to have Old_age and Pre-fail issues?

2. should I run some tests?

3. should I return the disk?

 

thank you

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