Seagate form free software "SeaTools for Windows" which can check hard disk serial number · bad sector repair · various tests The aforementioned " Fatal defects in Seagate hard disk firmware found to ...

I have a 500GB Seagate FreeAgent USB drive. I use it for backups. Every now and then I run the full disk scan in Seatools for Windows. Want to make sure my backup device isn't about to crap out on me.

I have an Exos X18 SATA drive (one of 6 in a ZFS array) that reliably fails in a server - it generates large numbers of R/W failures during scrubs/resilvers and gets dumped out of the array. The drive ...