I have ST1500MD003 now, but it's old and started to show it's age, so I wanted to buy new one and perform complete copy via ddrescue. I've bought new ST2000MD008. Without reading any feedback about this HDD. Cuz I trusted Seagate. My first drive served for 10 years. My current drive is 7 years old. And only after encountering some suspicious things, I decided to read feedback. And it was negative. To high rate of rejected drives. It would be better, if I would ask for refund within 3 days. It really looks like new, but some signs show, that it's used or refubrished with resetted SMART. So now I'm in doubt. It works pretty well, full copy has completed without any errors, but there are some problems. May be it's ok for this drive, may be not. May be it's due to vibrations and I should use shock-absorbers. Problem is - my case doesn't have them. I just want to ask for advice. Should I refund it immediately or should I give it a chance? Problem is - to find replacement. WD Blue with the same size and price is much slower. Only 5400rpm, 64Mb cache and 150Mb/s max data transfer. And feedback is also negative, lol.
Several problems with it just after 1 day of using:
1) Low freq noise, like it's bearing is dead. I don't feel them, but may be there are some vibrations.
2) Heads creaking, like they're 100 years old.
3) Too high seek error rate on SMART. Higher, than on my 7 years old drive. It has about +1 error per second. And new drive has around +6 errors per second.