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Re: What's a good portable reliable external 2.5" USB HDD to get these days?

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In alt.comp.periphs.hdd Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> wrote:
> On 08/19/2016 08:54 AM, Ant wrote:
> > Hello.
> >
> > It looks like this 6 years old 500 GB Seagate FreeAgent Go HDD is dying
> > according to GMsmartControl v0.8.7's extended test results on a very
> > old, updated Windows XP Pro SP3 (couldn't do SMART tests on 2 MBPs):
> > http://paste2.org/z1Kv4Vpk ...

> That report shows a seldom used drive (only 100 hours on the clock) in 
> excellent condition (no bad sectors). The most recent self test was 
> aborted by the host, not by the drive, when the test was 90% complete. 
> If those large raw numbers for the various "..._Rate" attributes (1, 7, 
> 195) are bothering you, know that those are normal for Seagate drives. 
> See <http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_HEC.html> and 
> various other search results for seagate+error+rate.

Thanks. I wonder why it got aborted during the extended tests.
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What's a good portable reliable external 2.5" USB HDD to get these days? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2016-08-19 06:54 -0700
  Re: What's a good portable reliable external 2.5" USB HDD to get these days? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2016-08-20 08:14 -0500
    Re: What's a good portable reliable external 2.5" USB HDD to get these days? ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2016-08-20 14:44 -0500
      Re: What's a good portable reliable external 2.5" USB HDD to get these days? Robert Nichols <SEE_SIGNATURE@localhost.localdomain.invalid> - 2016-08-21 09:05 -0500

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