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Splex

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Registered: 2009-03-09

Posts: 33

New HDD Test and SMART Errors

I have two brand new Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD103SJ 1TB harddisks.  To check the drives before using them, I ran `badblocks -b4096 -w -s -v` on both drives.  No errors.

I then checked `smartctl -a`
The first disk has the following entry:
191 G-Sense_Error_Rate FLAG:0x0022 RAW_VALUE:1

The second disk has the following entry:
200 Multi_Zone_Error_Rate FLAG:0x002a RAW_VALUE:2

The raw values for both drives were 0 before I started the test.

The drives have just 15 power on hours.  Should I be concerned about the attribute error count?  Any suggestions on other tests to run to further check the reliability of the new drives?