MonogramRMA

Here's my situation: testing a new drive to see whether to keep it or return it. First two attempts, it crashed during the zeroing phase at about a day and a half in, both times. I was running the test on a new build, so I switched to my usual testing machine and successfully completed 3 passes. Despite passing, I see a lot of concerning results and am not sure whether to keep the drive. 1st preread shows 40 sectors pending reallocation Final SMART stats show 12 uncorrectable errors (187), 5 runtime bad blocks (183), and what looks like multiple impact failures (?!?), among other things. This drive is for backup/archive use and will spend most of its life offline and idle, so it doesn't have to be a tank, but I'm not looking to be a sucker, either. Any advice? preclear_rpt_W4J06_2014-12-16.txt preclear_rpt_W4J06_2014-12-08.txt preclear_rpt_W4J06_2014-12-12.txt preclear_finish_W4J06_2014-12-08.txt