Toshiba DT01ACA050 too many bad sectors on first 5 months

Hi Good day,
I bought a toshiba internal drive 500gb(sealed) from my friend but after weird behavior on my pc I found out that it has too many bad sectors detected by HD tune pro and HDsentinel. He insisted that the drive is in good condition because it was
sealed thus he don't cover it for personal warranty and further instructed that I must be the one to RMA it but dont know how I live in the Philippines and don't have experience rma'ing a hard drive yet. Also it's weird coz it shows a different product model (Hitachi) instead of Toshiba DT model as seen on my hard drive cover.
Win7 32bit
foxconn h55
core - i3
tru rated power supply 500w
other hdd wd 500gb
*Additional info
Hard Disk Summary
Hard Disk Number,0
Interface,"S-ATA Gen3, 6 Gbps"
Disk Controller,"Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (ATA) [VEN: 8086, DEV: 3B20]"
Disk Location,"Channel 1, Target 0, Lun 0, Device: 0"
Hard Disk Model ID,Hitachi HDS721050DLE630
Firmware Revision,MS1OA650
Hard Disk Serial Number,MSK423Y20Y68LC
Total Size,476937 MB
Power State,Active
Logical Drive(s)
Logical Drive,H: [MUSIC-MOVIES-BACKUP]
Logical Drive,H: [MUSIC-MOVIES-BACKUP]
ATA Information
Hard Disk Cylinders,969021
Hard Disk Heads,16
Hard Disk Sectors,63
ATA Revision,ATA8-ACS version 4
Transport Version,SATA Rev 2.6
Total Sectors,122096646
Bytes Per Sector,4096 [Advanced Format]
Buffer Size,23652 KB
Multiple Sectors,16
Error Correction Bytes,56
Unformatted Capacity,476940 MB
Maximum PIO Mode,4
Maximum Multiword DMA Mode,2
Maximum UDMA Mode,6 Gbps (6)
Active UDMA Mode,6 Gbps (5)
Minimum multiword DMA Transfer Time,120 ns
Recommended Multiword DMA Transfer Time,120 ns
Minimum PIO Transfer Time Without IORDY,120 ns
Minimum PIO Transfer Time With IORDY,120 ns
ATA Control Byte,Valid
ATA Checksum Value,Valid
Acoustic Management Configuration
Acoustic Management,Not supported
Acoustic Management,Disabled
Current Acoustic Level,Default (00h)
Recommended Acoustic Level,Default (00h)
ATA Features
Read Ahead Buffer,"Supported, Enabled"
DMA,Supported
Ultra DMA,Supported
S.M.A.R.T.,Supported
Power Management,Supported
Write Cache,Supported
Host Protected Area,Supported
Advanced Power Management,"Supported, Disabled"
Extended Power Management,"Supported, Enabled"
Power Up In Standby,Supported
48-bit LBA Addressing,Supported
Device Configuration Overlay,Supported
IORDY Support,Supported
Read/Write DMA Queue,Not supported
NOP Command,Supported
Trusted Computing,Not supported
64-bit World Wide ID,0050A3CCCD7F5346
Streaming,Supported
Media Card Pass Through,Not supported
General Purpose Logging,Supported
Error Logging,Supported
CFA Feature Set,Not supported
CFast Device,Not supported
Long Physical Sectors (8),Supported
Long Logical Sectors,Not supported
Write-Read-Verify,Not supported
NV Cache Feature,Not supported
NV Cache Power Mode,Not supported
NV Cache Size,Not supported
Free-fall Control,Not supported
Free-fall Control Sensitivity,Not supported
Nominal Media Rotation Rate,7200 RPM
SSD Features
Data Set Management,Not supported
TRIM Command,Not supported
Deterministic Read After TRIM,Not supported
S.M.A.R.T. Details
Off-line Data Collection Status,Successfully Completed
Self Test Execution Status,Successfully Completed
Total Time To Complete Off-line Data Collection,4444 seconds
Execute Off-line Immediate,Supported
Abort/restart Off-line By Host,Not supported
Off-line Read Scanning,Supported
Short Self-test,Supported
Extended Self-test,Supported
Conveyance Self-test,Not supported
Selective Self-Test,Supported
Save Data Before/After Power Saving Mode,Supported
Enable/Disable Attribute Autosave,Supported
Error Logging Capability,Supported
Short Self-test Estimated Time,1 minutes
Extended Self-test Estimated Time,74 minutes
Last Short Self-test Result,Never Started
Last Short Self-test Date,Never Started
Last Extended Self-test Result,Never Started
Last Extended Self-test Date,Never Started
Security Mode
Security Mode,Supported
Security Erase,Supported
Security Erase Time,98 minutes
Security Enhanced Erase Feature,Not supported
Security Enhanced Erase Time,Not supported
Security Enabled,No
Security Locked,No
Security Frozen,Yes
Security Counter Expired,No
Security Level,High
Serial ATA Features
S-ATA Compliance,Yes
S-ATA I Signaling Speed (1.5 Gps),Supported
S-ATA II Signaling Speed (3 Gps),Supported
S-ATA Gen3 Signaling Speed (6 Gps),Supported
Receipt Of Power Management Requests From Host,Supported
PHY Event Counters,Supported
Non-Zero Buffer Offsets In DMA Setup FIS,"Supported, Disabled"
DMA Setup Auto-Activate Optimization,"Supported, Disabled"
Device Initiating Interface Power Management,"Supported, Disabled"
In-Order Data Delivery,"Supported, Disabled"
Asynchronous Notification,Not supported
Software Settings Preservation,"Supported, Enabled"
Native Command Queuing (NCQ),Supported
Queue Length,32
Disk Information
Disk Family,Deskstar 7K1000.D
Form Factor,"3.5"" "
Capacity,"500 GB (500 x 1,000,000,000 bytes)"
Number Of Disks,1
Number Of Heads,1
Rotational Speed,7200 RPM
Rotation Time,8.33 ms
Average Rotational Latency,4.17 ms
Disk Interface,Serial-ATA/600
Buffer-Host Max. Rate,600 MB/seconds
Buffer Size,32768 KB
Drive Ready Time (typical),? seconds
Average Seek Time,? ms
Track To Track Seek Time,? ms
Full Stroke Seek Time,? ms
Width,101.6 mm (4.0 inch)
Depth,147.0 mm (5.8 inch)
Height,26.1 mm (1.0 inch)
Weight,450 grams (1.0 pounds)
Required power for spinup,"3,300 mA"
Power required (seek),7.0 W
Power required (idle),5.0 W
Power required (standby),2.0 W
Manufacturer,Hitachi Global Storage Technologies
Manufacturer Website,http://www.hgst.com

Hi! Sense no one is replying. If your getting bad sectors; it's time to save your data and replace your HD. It's only a matter of time before your HD fails.
Dokie!!
PS I'm feeling a little crazy tonight. Nice friend you have (not)
I Love my Satellite L775D-S7222 Laptop. Some days you're the windshield, Some days you're the bug. The Computer world is crazy. If you have answers to computer problems, pass them forward.

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At this point I thought I had done everything except replacing my router (which I'm still tempted to do), but I called my broadband provider to see if there was anything they could do. One of the techs said I had too many devices connected to the internet, but I thought these routers were supposed to handle dozens of devices?
I finally called Linksys Tech Support and had a conversation for 90 minutes. We went through all the steps of unplugging the the modem, router & all connected devices, resetting the router, etc, etc. The only thing different he did was had me change my security from WPA to 64-bit WEP, and added passwords for DNA1 and DNS 2 (same password for each).
That was at 1:30am last night, and when I woke up to check my connection this morning, it was still connected. I have to check it again when I get home, but I'm wondering if I should just be prepared to get another router (and if so, any recommendations), or if there's something I'm still not doing that could resolve my issue - if I still have connection losses.
Also, I'm concerned about the security thing. If changing from WEP 128 or WPA to WEP 64 fixed my problem, I'm not sure I feel completely protected from intrusion - isn't that pretty much the least amount of security I can have (without forgoing it altogether)??
Finally, I've read a few threads suggesting possibly changing to static IP from DHCP; however, my satellite receiver installation documentation specifically advises against this for the receivers.
Anyway, I would very much appreciate some help.
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Too many connections - even after closing ResultSets and PreparedStatements

I'm getting a "Too many connections" error with MySQL when I run my Java program.
2007-08-06 15:07:26,650 main/CLIRuntime [FATAL]: Too many connections
com.mysql.jdbc.exceptions.MySQLNonTransientConnectionException: Too many connections
        at com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:921)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:2870)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.checkErrorPacket(MysqlIO.java:812)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.secureAuth411(MysqlIO.java:3269)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlIO.doHandshake(MysqlIO.java:1182)
        at com.mysql.jdbc.Connection.createNewIO(Connection.java:2670)I researched on this and found out that I wasn't closing the ResultSet and the PreparedStatement.
The JDBC connection is closed by a central program that handles connections (custom connection pooling).
I added the code to close all ResultSets and PreparedStatements, and re-started MySQL as per the instructions here
but still get "Too many connections" error.
A few other things come to mind, as to what I may be doing wrong, so I have a few questions:
1) A few PreparedStatements are created in one method, and they are used in a 2nd method and closed in the 2nd method
does this cause "Too many connections" error?
2) I have 2 different ResultSets, in nested while loops where the outer loop iterates over the first ResultSet and
the inner loop iterates over the second ResultSet.
I have a try-finally block that wraps the inner while loop, and I'm closing the second ResultSet and PreparedStement
in the inner while loop.
I also have a try-finally block that wraps the outer while loop, and I'm closing the first ResulSet and PreparedStatement
in the outer while loop as soon as the inner while loop completes.
So, in the above case the outer while loop's ResultSet and PreparedStatements remain open until the inner while loop completes.
Does the above cause "Too many connections" error?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The following is relevant sections of my code ( it is partially pseudo-code ) that shows the above 2 cases:
init( Connection jdbcConnection ){
   String firstSQLStatement = "....";
   PreparedStatement ps1 = jdbcConnection.prepareStatement( firstSQLStatement );
   String secondSQLStatement = "....";
   PreparedStatement ps2 = jdbcConnection.prepareStatement( secondSQLStatement );
   String thirdSQLStatement = "....";
   PreparedStatement ps3 = null;
   ResultSet rsA = null;
   try{
        ps3 = jdbcConnection.prepareStatement( thirdSQLStatement );
        rsA = ps3.executeQuery();
        if( rsA.next() ){
               rsA.getString( 1 );
   }finally{
        if( rsA != null )
               rsA.close();
        if( ps3 != null )
          ps3.close();
   //Notice, how ps1 and ps2 are created here but not used immediately, but only ps3 is
   //used immediately.
   //ps1 and ps2 are used in another method.
run( Connection jdbcConnection ){
     ResultSet rs1 = ps1.executeQuery();
        try{
           while(rs1.next()){
                String s = rs1.getString();
                ps2.setString(1, s);
          ResultSet rs2 = ps2.executeQuery();
                try{
               while(rs2.next()){
                    String s2 = rs2.getString();
                }finally{
               if( rs2 != null )
                 rs2.close();
               if( ps2 != null )
                 ps2.close();
     }catch( Exception e ){
          e.printStackTrace();
     }finally{
        if( rs1 != null )
              rs1.close();
           if( ps1 != null )
              ps1.close();
//Notice in the above case rs1 and ps1 are closed only after the inner
//while loop completes.
}I appreciate any help.

Thanks for your reply.
I will look at the central connection pooling mechanism ( which was written by someone else) , but that is being used by many other Java programs others have written.
They are not getting this error.
An addendum to my previous note, I followed the instructions here.
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/too-many-connections.html
There's probably something else in my code that is not closing the connection.
But I just wanted to rule out the fact that opening a PreparedStatement in one method and closing it in another is not a problem.
Or, if nested ResultSet loops don't cause the problem.
I've read in a few threads taht "Too many connections" can occur for unclosed RS and PS , and not just JDBC connections.

"Too Many Real Instruments"

I am posting this in the '09 topic, but my question really dates back to Garageband '08. I rely on Garageband often, and I'm a big fan of it. However, it contains a serious problem which I need fixed.
I create a new project, drop a single iTunes song into it, and begin to edit. Almost every time, randomly while playing the song the "Part of the project was not played. This project has too many real instrument tracks to be played in real-time" warning message appears. I only have 1 track! Worse still, my audio driver lets out a terrible "HONK" which startles me and blasts through the entire house. After that, My sound output faintly exists until I open up Audio MIDI Setup and change a random setting on my output.
I am quite tired of this predicament. Is there anyway to fix this (without money)?

I was experiencing a similar problem, and I just got off the phone with applecare and went through all their steps.
I'll try my best to recount them here. But before I do, let it be said that the tech fellow, once he heard what I was doing, exclaimed that my core problem was that I needed to be creating new projects, and not re-using the same project (ex. "My Song 2") over and over.
What I've been doing is backing up a pile of mini-discs that have live concerts on them. A couple of hours of audio each one, and I've been recording them into Garageband. After I divide the concert up into songs and export them to itunes, I've been deleting the track in Garageband and then importing the next concert (repeat x 10 concerts).
About 7-8 concerts in I started getting that popping sound when the sound would cut out (made the sound of depressing the safety-seal bubble on the metal lid of a jam jar). At first, quitting Garageband and opening it again would work. On the 10th concert, when the sound cut out the sound for the whole computer would stop working (itunes, volume buttons on my keyboard, everything).
So the tech fellow said the lesson is this: create new projects. Don't be shy about it. No need to re-use and recycle in cyberspace.
Now - my applecare steps:
- First we went: Macintosh HD, Library, then dragged "Caches" to the trash
- then went to Finder, Go, Utilities, Disk Utility, Macintosh HD, Repair Disk Permissions (that took some time)
- then restarted the computer
All seems to be well now.
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