Hard Drive SMART test failed

[maddogatc]

When I boot the computer (I have 3 hard drives) my Seagate 320GB SATA, data drive only, is detected by the bios and idicates "SMART test capable and status bad" and I have to press f1 for the computer to boot to windows. I ran the seatools in windows and I got the following results....
short dst......fail
long dst........fail
short generic.....pass
long generic.......pass

In dos mode I ran the test and...
short test......fail
long test........pass

When I first started the dos test it said the hard drive was to hot, I think it said above 70c, did I want to continue with the test? However it is mounted above my two WD drives and is directly behind an 120mm fan. It didn't even feel warm to the touch. Windows still detects the drive with the data on it. I downloaded and tried HDTUNE, a harddrive monitor software and it said drive temp was only 34c and in the health section it indicated "spin retry count......failed".

Has this drive failed?

 

[0roo0roo]

its gone.

 

[maddogatc]

Well that sucks! Have had the drive for only 6 weeks, used only for storage. Time to talk to Seagate customer support for a return and exchange. I was hesitant on Seagate but bought it due to the 5 year warranty. Have always bought WD in the past with no failures. A couple of my WD 40gb drives are over 5 yrs old and still working

 

[RebateMonger]

Warranties on low-price consumer hard drives aren't worth much. The cost of buying a new drive is very low compared to the "cost" of changing out the drive, the RMA process, copying backups to the new drive, etc. Not to mention the cost of data recovery if you have no backups. Plus, in theory, the drive manufacturer can handle you a 'refurbished' drive as the replacement. If it's a business, I advise my client to hammer the failed drive with a sledge hammer and just buy a new one.