> > I would just return-back the unit. It is clearly new (less than 400 hours > of use!) and should not throw any error nor message about its SMART > health. This does not have to mean a bad drive per se, of course, but > better safe than sorry. If a new unit still fails, I would recheck the > cable and/or disk connectors. > > I am not sure how the warranties on hard drives work. I spoke to the retailer and he reckons it has to go back to the manufacturer. There is a wait of 2 weeks.
As I mentioned earlier, last time I got this error I wrote random data to the drive and just before taking it back I ran the tests again using the WD tool. It came back with no errors. This is what is confusing. I expected it to register bad sectors after wiping the whole drive as well. -- Kind regards, Yudi
