What ho one ans all,

Have taken delivery of two 2tb Seagate hdd to be used for photo file backup purposes. As I write, am formatting the second drive.

The first drive formatted as it should and Crystal Disk Info (as far as I can understand the data) gave all parameters the OK. While I have not completed formatting of the second, CDI is showing some differences.

I have three hdd installed and the Current / Worst / Threshold / RAW for Seek Rate Errors, for Disk 0, 1, and 2 are 100,235,0,0 / 200,200,51,0 / 200,200,51,0. I don't know what it means, but since they are all similar, I would guess OK.

But the Seagate 2tb as I format is giving 100,253,30 253. Given that the internal RAW data of the internal hdd are all 0, what does the new hdd with a RAW reading of 253 tell me?

The HDD is dodgy?

Toodle pip and thanks

Rex