RMA this WD20ears?

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I just bough a WD20EARS, the harddrive however has wierd spikes at beginning as in image below.

Also the average read speed is 82.4mb/s which I believe is a bit low considering my 204ui gives 103mb/s and around that so should the EARS aswell..

Time to RMA the disk?

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The harddrive is basicaly brand new.

in health tab in hdtune I get the following:

Healt status: Warning
current worst threshold data status
(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 1 warning
 
i think smart the error is caused by a loose sata cable, try another one if you have it handy, and about the bechmark, load a command prompt with admin rights, and type "net stop wsearch" without the quotes and benchmark it again, post results.
 
To me this problem looks like a bad SATA card.

(C7) Ultra DMA CRC Error Count 200 200 0 1 warning
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This is telling you that there was a single bad packet transferred between the SATA port and drive. I would worry about this if you had a few thousand but 1 does not bother me.
 
my 2tb F4 works without problem.

I plugged the EARS straight on to motherboard, at beginning 110mb/s then damaged blocks and 25mb/s:

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Is the harddrive defective, RMA it?
 
Is the harddrive defective, RMA it?
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Its not perfect. However its not terribly bad..

If you can do a full format on the drive (erasing all data) then redo the same hd tune screens you have posted.

AT work I have seen a few WDC drives that came with current pending sectors from the factory but after a full format all was well.
 
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drescherjm said:
Its not perfect. However its not terribly bad..

If you can do a full format on the drive (erasing all data) then redo the same hd tune screens you have posted.

AT work I have seen a few WDC drives that came with current pending sectors from the factory but after a full format all was well.
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never had this problem with Samsung :(

edit---> windows was unable to complete format :(
 
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If you can, I'd RMA it. No sense hanging on to a drive that may be going bad - especially if it is new. I used to be sanguine about drive errors, then lost a crap ton of data in a crash and have been very conservative since then.
 
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