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[jeancarlo]

Hi.

I bought a sata disk almost 3 months ago, a ST3250620AS 250GB. From one day to another my data started to get erased. I formated the partition but still have problems.

This is a SMART report:

S.M.A.R.T. status
Date: 2007/12/15 20:05:45

Model Name: ST3250620AS
Serial number:  9QE3HXLN
Capacity:  250.1 GB
Firmware:  3.AAK
Drive interface: IDE
Current temperature: 43 °C (109 F)

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         Attribute Name                       Threshold     Value       Worst     Raw value 
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1   (01) Raw Read Error Rate                     6           114         99        75851554
3   (03) Spin Up Time                            0           96          96               0
4   (04) Start/Stop Count                        20          100         100            172
5   (05) Reallocated Sectors Count               36          100         100              0
7   (07) Seek Error Rate                         30          53          52    639978661187
9   (09) Power-On Hours                          0           99          99            1378
10  (0A) Spin Retry Count                        97          100         100              0
12  (0C) Device Power Cycle Count                20          100         100            171
...

190 (BE) Airflow Temperature                     45          57          51       722927659
194 (C2) Temperature                             0           43          49     94489280555
195 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered                  0           61          57        23989898
197 (C5) Current Pending Sector Count            0           100         100              0
...

If some one knows about the high raw values please tell me about. I dont know if there is a way to keep those numbers from going high. I bought it in Canada and then move to Venezuela so returning it dont seems to be a solution.

Thanks in advance

[jeancarlo]

For testing I copied a 3GB file. After that and 45 minutes I got this:

Date: 2007/12/15 20:49:18

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         Attribute Name                       Threshold     Value       Worst     Raw value 
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1   (01) Raw Read Error Rate                     6           113         99       113040072
3   (03) Spin Up Time                            0           96          96               0
4   (04) Start/Stop Count                        20          100         100            172
5   (05) Reallocated Sectors Count               36          100         100              0
7   (07) Seek Error Rate                         30          53          52    639978700493

The  "Raw Read Error Rate" just doubled its raw value

Any suggestions?