Hi All, 

 

I know this topic comes up a lot, but just wanted to get some advice.

 

As per the title, I just got a brand new Seagate Exos (X18) 14TB drive and ran it through UD Preclear to sanity check everything before adding it as a replacement parity drive.

 

Preclear encounter errors in post-read, with S.M.A.R.T.: Reported_Uncorrect, Current_Pending_Sector and Offline_Uncorrectable all Up by 1

 

I then ran a SMART extended self-test and this also flagged errors. I've attached both reports to this post. 

 

What is the best course of action, just return the drive and ask for a replacement & reference these error reports?

 

Thanks!

ST14000NM000J-2TX103_ZR702HP8-20220903-0519.txt preclear_disk_ZR702HP8_24831.txt

SMART Extended Self-test Log Version: 1 (1 sectors)
Num  Test_Description    Status                  Remaining  LifeTime(hours)  LBA_of_first_error
# 1  Extended offline    Completed: read failure       90%        35         60768

Definitely return it