Seagate Momentus 320 bad sectors

[sgmidf]

I decided to upgrade the 100GB drive on my X61s and picked up a Seagate Momentus 320/7200 rpm drive and cloned it without TOO many problems. After about a month, I started having Vista errors and ran the Seatools long test which it failed. It was replaced under warranty by Seagate with a remanufactured drive. After a week, I ran the long test for fun and there were 4 bad sectors which were repaired. It's been a few months and I just ran the long test...another single bad sector which it repaired.
Is this normal for a drive? I know that there are millions of sectors etc etc, but is an occasional bad one every few months acceptable?

Thanks

[PiZzA EnGiNeEr]

Not normal at all. You should RMA the drive again as soon as possible and get a replacement.

[mazzinia]

I would second it... also, you can push to get a new drive instead of a renewed one. Add a letter inside the box with the drive, and put a complaint ...

[Flagrare]

Third to that motion. Might I suggest though, you should go with Western Digital. In my experience they have a less defective rate percentage than anyone else. Well at least Seagate and Maxtor. Dunno about the Hitachi drives.

[Nameless]

Personally I've had the best luck with WD and Hitachi drives. In 3.5" I tend to prefer WD, in 2.5" Hitachi. I haven't used Seagate in a long time but others swear by them. I've personally had Toshiba and Fujitsu drives go bad in the past.

[RealBlackStuff]

I use exclusively Seagate in 3.5" and mostly Seagate in 2.5" (sometimes Fujitsu 2.5").
I have bad experiences with 2.5" Toshibas.
Seagate has 5 years warranty, the others 3 years or less!

[bill bolton]

Seagate has 5 years warranty, the others 3 years or less!

Seagate changed their standard drive warranty from 5 years to 3 years as of Januray 1, 2009.

Cheers,

Bill

[Marin85]

Seagate changed their standard drive warranty from 5 years to 3 years as of Januray 1, 2009.

Does this apply to HDs purchased before 1. Jan 2009 and that supposedly came with the 5 year warranty?

[killer]

Marin,
I don't know how warranties apply in your country but here they are valid from date of issue. In other words, if you had bought something in 2008 with a 5 year guarantee then it would be covered until 2013.

[Marin85]

Marin,
I don't know how warranties apply in your country but here they are valid from date of issue. In other words, if you had bought something in 2008 with a 5 year guarantee then it would be covered until 2013.

Basically that´s so everywhere, but since I haven´t got anything written from Seagate when having purchased my drive, I now thought they might have changed the basic conditions of warranty-servicing their HDs in a way applying to earlier purchased drives too (I haven´t read the "small print"). In other words, I was making sure for myself it´s not some sort of exception here.

Thanks,

Marin