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keep it or send it back?

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Bought a Seagate 80gb 5400RPM thats out of warranty. He said it didnt report no errors before he shipped. Fails SMART test using Seagates online test. So I tried the DOS method(what he used). Does the same thing using the quick method.

So I run the full. Well it finds several bad sectors on the HDD and asks if I want to try and write zeros to the sectors to try and fix them and it does. Said it fixes them all. Afterwared I run full test again through DOS and it passes fine. But still gives a error using the online brower testing(both quick and full).

He was wanting $25 for it since its old and out of warranty. But I told him the only way I would really take a chance on it is if it was cheaper so hes asking $15. Should I even bother? I mean it could end up being a $15 paper weight in a week or could take a year. Is it possible it doesnt support SMART and thats why its getting the error?

Reason I ask is I don't know a whole lot about HDD's

Thx
 
My experience with drives has been that once you start losing sectors, its all downhill from there. Yeah, it might last another year or two, but you cant totally trust it to not lose data on you either.
 
The only drives in exsistance that wouldn't support SMART are going to be less than 6GB in size. SMART became intregrated into hard drive command electronics with the introduction to Ultra 33 and finalized in Ultra 66.

It's your call on the drive. Personally, I wouldn't even bother. SMART is a set of VERY basic tests that monitor simple points of the drive. If it throws a SMART failure, the drive WILL fail. Even at 80GB, I can't justify the high potential for data loss when compared to the price.
 
Told him I was gonna just send it back and to send the $8 or so for shipped priority. He said to just keep it. Guess I will just use it and backup often. Hate to just let a somewhat working HDD just sit there?

Any other uses I could get out of it?
 
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