I bought a couple of 7200.11, 500GB drives. The diagnostic utility won't find anything wrong with a drive when the problem is with the cable or M/B all it does is send a command to the drive onboard controller and wait for the reply. If they test a drive and it doesn't show the fault you're claiming you may be out a drive. I don't know when you last sent for RMA at Seagate, but have a look at the latest return policy (last paragraph). Just think of the famous 7200.11 firmware problem, the worst part is a similar problem happened with the 7200.12 series. Ever since Seagate bought back their shares and went private again, their products have been below par. I'd say Western Digital makes the better quality drives these days. BTW, check out the warranty void checklist, I especially like the one where the cover serial# doesn't match the case. Eventually, the drive ran out of spare sectors and I got a fault code. It would cause sectors to be marked as bad, running Seatools would move the data to a spare sector and report the drive to be good. I've had a drive (Seagate) that made an horrible noise after operating for a while, the spindle bearing was bad. I refuse to run the diagnostic utilities because I know when a drive is faulty and when it isn't, and I've had dignostic utilities tell me there's nothing wrong with a drive in the past while it's making all sorts of odd noises and running at a snail's pace. One of the available fault codes is effectively "Seatools can't access the drive due to a RAID configuration".
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