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MKelleher

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Sep 1, 2010
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Hi everyone. I just had a new Seagate Momentus installed in my early 2008 MacBook Pro. Out of curiosity, I ran SMART utility on it. With only 5 hours of use listed, it lists 4 attributes as "Pre-Fail" and all the rest as "Old Age." Is this normal for a new hard-drive? I've copied the pre-fail attributes below. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

Raw Read Error Rate
Flag: 0x000F
Value: 115
Worst: 100
Threshold: 6
Type: Pre-fail
Raw Value: 96057160

Spin Up Time
Flag: 0x0003
Value: 99
Worst: 99
Threshold: 85
Type: Pre-fail
Raw Value: 0

Reallocated Sector Count
Flag: 0x0033
Value: 100
Worst: 100
Threshold: 36
Type: Pre-fail
Raw Value: 0

Seek Error Rate
Flag: 0x000F
Value: 100
Worst: 253
Threshold: 30
Type: Pre-fail
Raw Value: 14306
 
If its new, take it back. There's nothing you can do and if the SMART report is issuing errors, there's no reason not to return it.
 
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