Faulty hard drive? Memory analysis

Hey
Been trying to figure out whether or not my new MBP's hard drive is faulty.
It's a 13" 2,56GHz (Core2Duo) with 4 GB RAM
Can you help me find out by "analyzing" these numbers?
I did this clean install and got these numbers - after the clean install, no extra software installed and no external HDD plugged in:
Uptime: 3 days
Load averages: 0,38 0,49 0,62
Page ins: 2,26 GB
Page outs: 384 KB
Swap-disc used: 3,0 MB
0,6 GB free + 1,4 GB passive memory / 4 GB total = 50 %,
when running 13 diff. apps, incl. Safari with 10 tabs open (a slight bit of Flash)
Hard drive sleeping turned off.
Numbers after doing doing a full restore from Time Machine:
Did a test, running 30 apps (pretty heavy ones too, like all iWork apps, FF, Chrome, Safari etc.).
Free memory was gone, but had 1 GB passive left at all times. Got a lot of page outs though.
See screenshot.
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Not sure why my memory usage stays this, somewhat, high now when only having very few apps open.
Also, what about the SWAP disc number, is that bad?
After another 24 hours, just normal usage (no heavy multitasking at all):
See second screenshot
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System does seem a little slow and i'm getting some beachballs
Hope you can help me out
Thanks in advance

What you've posted gives no indication of any problem with your hard drive. Indeed, it has hardly anything to do with your hard drive. OS X is busy managing RAM to allow all your applications to keep running at once, and that's about all that appears to be happening.
You may want to read this Apple article about the several different RAM usage states and OS X's RAM management strategies:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1342
It may reassure you about the normality of what you're seeing.

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