Anyone have an idea what Hardware ECC Recovered, Raw Read Error Rate and Seek Error Rate might imply in the SMART values of a hard drive? By themselves? That is, the drive is physically fine. It tests ok in a block-by-block scan, such as HDTune or the manufacturer's own Seatools. Ran all the Long tests in Seatools, it checked out, but it has huge counts for these other values. It also gave a few very slow boots, corrupted some files on a reboot and then required a repair install. There's a small entry under the G-sense thing to indicate a drop, but that's neither new nor enough to explain the drive's behaviour and the sheer number of ECC/Read/Seek errors. I'm baffled, and not sure whether to put it back into service or scrap it. Or perform an exorcism. I'm trying to think of an explanation that doesn't involve the drive being physically faulty, and can't (it definitely isn't the controller or the laptop itself, as it's now cloned onto an SSD and working fine).
Nothing to worry about: Seagate's raw data for a bunch of SMART stats are way, way off. Basically, Seagate stores the values in a different way to the SMART standard that everyone else uses, so you get these massive numbers when it actually means "0" or "4" or whatever. There's a good explanation here.
This man speaketh the truth! Seagate drive are well known for using comical numbers. To be honest a lot of the SMART data isn't really that helpful. The big ones are pending sector count and reallocated sector count. As long as it's passed testing I'd be more than happy to put it back into use.
