Hi all!
A couple of months ago my 1Tb hard drive died (i heard loud head clicking and OS stopped responsing, after a reboot it happened again and again). I restored almost all files (when I booted with Acronis Disk Director, it was possible to copy the data about a half an hour before head clicking began). Then I had no time to manage with it, so the drive just lay on the shelf about a month. Then I was going to take it to the service center, but decided to try to connect it once again. I formatted it - and my new OS saw it. I ran some surface tests and they came through. So, it's not dead... But there are many slow blocks (about 200 with 200-600 ms access time and more than 2000 with about 100 ms access time, needless to say about average access speed - it's about 60Mb/s in the middle and in the end of disc) and SMART parameter HighFlyWrites rises when writing (it's value is 1 now, threshold is 0, raw value is about 2500). As I know, this parameter shows how much times head was too far from disc's platter when trying to write. Maybe it's not so bad, but in case that earlier there was a disc crush because of head malfunctions... So I took my drive to the service center - and they said that it's totally ok after testing so they won't change it for the new one. Are they right and such a behavior of the hard drive is really within normal limits? If yes - i would be glad any advices, maybe any stress test for the drive to make it show it's real face...
Sorry for such a large post. I'm just very upset with this situation...
