I ran Drive Genius 2 on the drive and it passed but back in the
SMART situation it continues to fail. Disk Utility and DiskWarrior
also pass it in an external enclosure.
John Carmonne
Yorba Linda USA
This is merely anecdotal evidence, but I had a 500GB SATA Seagate come
up with a SMART failure in an app called "SMART Utility", but both
Disk Utility and SMART Reporter passed it. SMART Reporter showed much
more detail than just a generic SMART status; it showed that the drive
had overheated in the past, and had 7 bad sectors that couldn't be
remapped. That drive did eventually die, so proceed with caution.
SMART Utility is a paid app, but will let you run it for free a few
times in demo mode.
Eric
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