Hi LTT forums
I have some concerns over old drives, mainly HDDs. They're a mix of "I found it somewhere" and "I found it somewhere" drives. AKA they're all used.
CrystalDiskInfo says OK on all the drives, but my experience personally with storage devices has always been positive, never had a drive fail in over a decade of being a PC hardware enthusiast, even despite my exclusively second hand drives (I can hear Linus stirring in his sleep from the UK)
I have dates on some of them, one being 2013, the rest are at least that old if not older, for the HDDs anyways.
The SSDs I have are newer, maybe 2015ish, but still, my only personal experience being positive, and the experience I have fixing others PCs only being it's completely f'd, I don't really know what I'm looking for..
I'm aware there's many factors that go into a drive failing, and also out of best practice I really should start replacing the drives, but in my case, I have the important stuff in the cloud, and I do plan to replace the entire rig at some arbitrary point in the future, if a pile of cash falls out the sky to fix my motorcycle, car, PC, relationship, and home server, but for now I would just like to know what I'm looking out for.
Is there something in CrystalDiskInfo, or any software, that might indicate a drive is starting to fail, or might fail in the future, or is it a case of waking up to "womp womp, drive dead"