Hi folks, I searched all over the internet for an answer before posting, but I’m giving up for now. I bought a new Caviar Black 1TB yesterday to replace a possibly flaky Caviar SE16 640GB (the 6400AAKS). I made sure to take a snapshot of the Caviar Black’s SMART status on first bootup, using HDTun…

Caviar Black 1TB: Really bad (?) SMART status "Hardware ECC Recovered"

darksquid December 24, 2009, 6:37am 4

I have the same problem on both of my 1T harddrives bought less than 1 month ago.

waiting on a reply from WD now.