Is My New HDD Bad?

[jim53]

forgot to add another screenshotI finished building my first computer a few days ago, it's been up and running about 4 days now.
Antec 300
Gigabyte P67A-UD3P (Bios F6a AHCI enabled)
2500K
Hyper 212 Plus
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 60GB
Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ 500GB
GSkill Ripjaws 4GB 4GBRL
Corsair 650TX
EVGA GeForce GTX 460 (Fermi)
Asus DVD
Win7 64bit
I haven't noticed any problems with the hdd. Currently the ssd has the os on it and the Samsung HD is used for data/storage.
Both drives were connected to the Sata2, ports 2 & 3. After hearing about the Intel issue I switched both drives to the Sata3, port 0 (ssd) & port 1 (hd).
I found out about HD Tune Pro and downloaded the trial version,
curiosity got the best of me and tested my Samsung Spinpoint F3 HD502HJ.
I don't really know how to interpret the graph so I don't know if the hd is good or not but from the results it looks like it's a bad drive.?

This is when the hd was connected to Sata2 port 3 i ran the test for about 5 minutes

Then i let the test run longer connected to the same port and this one shows it passed.
But after about 5 or 6 minutes it showed failed again.

This is when i connected the hd to Sata3 port 1

I'm wondering if the hd really is bad or could it be the mobo or is
the trial version of HD Tune Pro not reliable?
Is there something else i could test with?
Something that I need to set in bios?

Thanks for any help or advice.

forgot to add this
sometimes this happens when running HD Tune Pro

 

[jim53]

Anyone?

 

[Blain]

You've got the P67 chipset.
Which SATA port do you have your HD connected to?

 

[strep3241]

You could try a program called CrystalDiskInfo(free) or Hard Disk Sentinel(trial for 30 days) and see if they show the same thing.

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html

http://www.hdsentinel.com/

 

[jim53]

You've got the P67 chipset.
Which SATA port do you have your HD connected to?

It was on Sata2 port 3. I changed it and the ssd to Sata3 after the intel issue.
HDD is now on Sata3 port 1 test results above from both ports
SSD port 0

 

[jim53]

Here's Crystal Disk

Hard Disk Sentinal

I wonder if HD Tune Pro trial version is giving me false info?

 

[mfenn]

Run the official Samsung diagnostic test. If that fails, they will RMA it no questions asked. Nearly DOA drives are rare, but not unheard of.

 

[jim53]

Run the official Samsung diagnostic test. If that fails, they will RMA it no questions asked. Nearly DOA drives are rare, but not unheard of.

Thanks for the link. Headed there now

 

[jim53]

Run the official Samsung diagnostic test. If that fails, they will RMA it no questions asked. Nearly DOA drives are rare, but not unheard of.

Ran the diagnostics and everything looks good.

[SELF DIAGNOSTIC (ESTOOL v3.00g)]
Model Name : SAMSUNG HD502HJ
Rom Revision : 1AJ10001
Serial Number : S20BJ90ZB23010
Drive Size : 476940MB (LBA : 976773168)
Start Time : Fri Feb 04 13:55:55 2011

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Test Loop Number : 1/1
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>> READ DMA : Testing... Pass !
>> CHECK S.M.A.R.T. : Testing... Pass !
>> SPIN DOWN / UP : Testing... Pass !
>> SIMPLE SURFACE SCAN : Testing... Pass !
>> WRITE VERIFY : Testing... Pass !
>> RANDOM SURFACE SCAN : Testing... Pass !
>> READ SURFACE SCAN : Testing... Pass !
>> RAM VERIFY TEST : Testing... Pass !
>> MULTIPLE READ TEST : Testing... Pass !
Service Code => SJ25 : Test OK.
End Time : Fri Feb 04 15:10:10 2011
Test was completed.
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