Any one seen/heard anything particularly bad about this drive (other than 5400RPM)? model HD103UI
It is bizarrely cheap ($60 @ mwave, $80 deals at some B&Ms recently).
17% bad is pretty horrible, any way you slice it.
For personal use I'd agree; just RMA and forget it. Unfortunately, I'm evaluating these for work in anticipation of needing a few thousand of them.
I should just fail them, but since I have no idea whats wrong with it, I really don't know...
Recent we bought 6x of the 750GB Seagate 7200.11 drives. All 6 had the same date code etc.
All 6 had the same profile for sequential read speeds - starting at over 100MB/s on outer sectors and dropping to 50MB/s on the innermost ones.
5 of the 6 had matching write speeds - "Good" drive...