Getting strange smart readings on brand new drive

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Hey, just installed my brand new seagate barracuda 7200.12 hard drive and it’s not 7 hours old, yet all “smart” programs tells me it’s already having issues with errors and health/fitness. Is this something I should worry about? There’s no clicking noises or anything but it’s quite odd that a brand new drive is already reporting these issues - My 3 year old western digital was clicking and coughing up blood yet it scored better than my new drive.

Here’s a screenshot from speedfan
http://img299.yfrog.com/img299/522/speedfan.jpg

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Hey u might want to check out with Seagate coz in the recent past they had a very high failure rate on their baracuda drives .

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After some more googling, it seems it’s quite normal with seagate drives.
Just to be on the safe side I did a complete scan of the drive with seatools and it came up with 0 errors. People at seagate also recommends ignoring smart for some reason.

Anyway the drive works just fine so I guess it’s not an issue after all =)