My 2TB has been dying for 1 year now?

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:confused: Well its been 1 hole year like this and its still hasn't died :confused::confused:


Should I just wait till it dies :D I have everything backed-up. Now I just put junk on it so if it dies I can smash it to pieces
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Thats what I would call, a slow death

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DTBA said:
:confused: Well its been 1 hole year like this and its still hasn't died :confused::confused:


Should I just wait till it dies :D I have everything backed-up. Now I just put junk on it so if it dies I can smash it to pieces
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I have the exact same stats on my 3TB (556 days powered on). Is yours a Seagate drive as well?
 
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Look at parameter 197 and 198. It indicate no current problems with spare sectors relocation. Why do you say hard drive is dying? The only suspicious is parameter 5. It indicate something happened in the past and require watching. If this parameter is dropping - it is bad. If it stays on the same level, is fine. I wonder why this parameter is so low, the raw value is not very large. I would run off-line SMART test on this drive and see if it improves.

More information about condition would give scanning for delays. SMART information is only reliable when already tripped. :)
 
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sajunky said:
Look at parameter 197 and 198. It indicate no current problems with spare sectors relocation. Why do you say hard drive is dying? The only suspicious is parameter 5. It indicate something happened in the past and require watching. If this parameter is dropping - it is bad. If it stays on the same level, is fine. I wonder why this parameter is so low, the raw value is not very large. I would run off-line SMART test on this drive and see if it improves.

More information about condition would give scanning for delays. SMART information is only reliable when already tripped. :)
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Can you explain why HDS is freaking out on my and telling me that it has 9 days left? or the above post hdd is on 1% health ? A bit misleading
 
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DTBA said:
Can you explain why HDS is freaking out on my and telling me that it has 9 days left? or the above post hdd is on 1% health ? A bit misleading
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Many programs have different interpretation. You don't mention which program it is. OK, HDS. Run some other and see. Observation in this case is a key, as nothing wrong is detected. Spare sector list of these drives is much bigger than indicated by the raw value. I wrote in previous post that based on raw value it is surprised that this parameter gone so low (close to tripping). So If you want know more about this drive, follow my previous post.
 
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DTBA said:
:confused: Well its been 1 hole year like this and its still hasn't died :confused::confused:


Should I just wait till it dies :D I have everything backed-up. Now I just put junk on it so if it dies I can smash it to pieces
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How do you know its been with that status a year?


Noobs need to know how to look after their hardware:

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I had a working seagate drive with 5 sectors reallocated, actually worked like that for well over 5 years, as far as I know it's still working.

I would run seatools and chdisk to make sure it can do long and short tests often these drives will fail the long test, it is also imported that these sectors be marked for the OS and the drive it self, even thought smart shows there is bad sectors it doesn't automatically mark them, it puts these sectors on pending till those sectors are written, and tries again to see if it can't rectify those sectors if not then it goes to the reallocated sector count tally.So data may have been lying on these sectors for months and the HDD is none the wiser.
 
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