Does this look like a faulty hard drive?

[jim]

Bought a Samsung HD203WI off your good selves, not my first by a long shot.

However, the performance has been horrendous. Thinking it might be bust, I put it into desktop #2 to test it and ran HDTune - here are the results:



Any thoughts, anybody? Scan or otherwise.

[jim]

Hmm, it's now throwing up SMART errors in the AHCI BIOS so I've set up an RMA.

How the heck I'm actually going to get it to you, I have no idea, but there you go. Fingers crossed that there's a kind receptionist somewhere at the uni who will sort out the collection...