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Sure, here they are, first one is from victoria, it says is good, which is laughable, and might be wrong. The other two are from HD Sentinel which says is critical. I havent monitored my disks until this happened so I can't tell a previous state or smart. What does the smart data tell you?

Because if somehow it still works, it has some value to me. Besides, I can still use it to experiment on it. Still won't be using it to store data on it.

Hi Guys, I'll try to give you as much detail as possible. I Have this Western Digital Disk, from the Blue Brand, Code: WDC WD40EZRZ-00GXCB0, the one that at my understanding has the highest rate of failure. It is a 4 TB Drive, and I had a bunch of data there, that luckily I was able to backup before what im going to explained happened to the disk. This Disk had some logically corrupted sectors, I had some files trapped within those sectors, but I Managed to use a tool called Hdd Regenerator, version 1.71 to copy away the unreadeable sectors to a readeable zone, and after 3 or 4 attemps, because it wouldn't let me at the first two, to pull out my stucked files, I was able to pull the missing ones until there was no file left to backup. Note that, BEFORE, using ANY formating tool, the disk was still able to copy files and read from sectors that wasn't damaged at normal speeds, for me this was 150 MB/s. After using the first tool and aborting the operation because it would take a sh*t ton of time, the disk began giving me new slow sectors at every place I tried to scan it with Victoria, is a program to look at a specific sector and tell if it reads normal and fast or badly and slow. Suddenly every zone I took was Slow..... I Though, maybe is the head, but no clicking noise was there, it was like for some reason the read/write speed was taken down all the way to 240 KB/s.... Which is hella slow. After that I tried HDAT2 and used wipe option to zero it as originally intended with Aomei.... But.... The speed it brough was the previously mention, 240 KB/s. and by my calculations it would take about 5 and a half MONTHS, to format... I will eventually try that and see if that end ups fixing or killing my drive, as I have no file there, I'll be experimenting on it, cuz at this point I hate that disk. After that i Though, maybe if I use a Western Digital Program, it might fix it somewhat. First I tried their tool Data LifeGuard Diagnostic and used the Erase option with Quick Format, which formated the first 1000000 sectors from the begining of the disk and from the end. It took their fair 10 minutes, which is still long. Normally this will take 1 or 2 minutes. After that Windows was able to recognize it and I was able to write on those sectors at normal speeds, I did check their sector speed with victoria, but it told me those sectors were bad, I think it read it wrong. Im begining to think, there may be something wrong with reading, and not writing, but then when I try to write zeros, it will do this slow down thingy. So, I am now using Full Erase from WD Software, LifeGuard Diagnostic, and it doesn't tell me yet the stimated time, but i bet i will say 5 months and a half, at the time of the screenshot it says about 2 months and a half to fully erase the disk. My fear is that after completing this operation the disk will be unreadeable, I think there might be something wrong with the head. I also though about the PCB controllet but i think it wouldn't turn at all, would it? If anyone has an idea of what could this be, I'll appretiate a lot your knowledge. All because I tried zero-ing it with Aomei program.... but If i had to bet, it would happen with any program, even the original from WD. Is like, at the moment of Zero-ing something went wrong, and my disk wasn't the same after that. When this was done I Though, well this might be just Logical Corruption, lets try filling the disk with zeroes and format it so that the magnetic thing goes back to normal. I started using Aomei Partition Asistant to do the job, I left it runing for a time, not sure how long, maybe 3 days, and it was at 9,9% out of 100% formating completion. Or is that 5 months and a half is a normal time for zero-ing a drive? I can't tell. Another thing is that the disk will stick with the same sector is working for like 1 or 2 minutes and then change, The Sector Number I Mean.( Current Sector: 58650879 of 7814037167 (0.75%) ) For the corrupted sectors, it was something like this: Imagine this Line is the whole disk status and Lines or Minus is Okay Sector and Asteriscs are Bad Sectors ---*******------------------------------------------******************************---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More less it lood like that with the Regenerator program, and i had to pass up to 4 times that program to get out the middle sectors. Up to that point it was reading normaly, the task took 1 day and a half which seemed reasonable. Also full backup took a day and a half, which is almost the same as it is reading all used sectors, note that I wasn't using this disk capacity completely, I Had like 600 GB to spare. but yeah, 3 TB.

Hi everyone, So this is a used Hard drive I've purchased and I could use it for less than 5 hours, I ran some drive tests to figure out the corrupt sectors, but I ended up canceling most of them as I saw that the HDD had many corrupted sectors so didn't matter anyway. The weird thing is that after I turned it off and after a while on, the disk won't read, and made 3 buzzing like sounds on a fixed interval of time. As far as I can tell, is my guess (bear with me), the heads are stuck off the platter, thus it can't phisically read anything. But then the disk does this noises I recorded and, I tested out if it was that the heads were stuck ON the platter, but as I removed the disk after turning power off and moved it slowly on the air (I know this should not be done) I couldn't hear any scratching noise and at the same time I felt the spining destabilizing the hard drive from my hand (because of spin force), and thus I think the platters do spin because I can feel it, but I heard no head movement whatsoever. What do you think this could be? I'm leaving a link to the recording right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcyqcXOuw7o If you know how to fix this please write it down in the comments. Thanks for reading.

Hello I'am on building a new pc and I encounter a new problem, currently my retailer only has this motherboards. Asus prime b350 plus MSI b350 Artic MSI b350 Bazooka And I Thought going for Asus because was the cheaper but now I noticed that the 3200 mhz memory compatibility that advertice in their website is only for 1 Ram Module and I bought Dual Ram Modules from Corsair Vengeance at 3200 MHZ Frequencys. My Questions are as followed: 1) Will ever Asus Prime get a Bios Update that will allow me to use my Corsair Vengeance Memory full potencial,... ever? 2) MSI Mobo, I just dont trust that brand for what ever reason but do those motherboard support 3200 MHZ Ram? (Dual Channel) If so which one do you recommend? 3) According to this Imagen published by AMD, Ryzen only support up to 2666MHZ RAM Models, will that be a problem for my 3200 RAM to be recogniced or work with the chip in any way, shape or form? http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/ddr4-memory-support.jpg 4) If I go Asus and somehow I Managed to make my Mobo recognice my Corsair RAM (assuming that Asus do not recognice it), will I need to "overclock it" to 3200 Frequencys (I suspect is not overclocking cuz I wont surpase the adverticed Frequencys, but still, I may have to change manualy some configurations) 5) Recommended timing and Voltage for Corsair 3200 MHZ RAM. (I know that out of the box it will set itself to a lower frequency)

Yes, I heard that G Skill Flare X was optimized for Ryzen, good to know i am not the only one.

Hello, so I wanted to build a brand new pc but I am struggling with this question. A Mobo (Motherboard) "Asus Prime B350M-A" with socket "AM4" will recognice and use the RAM: Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000 Mhz, 2x8 GB? Because I searched the most i could and I only found this: https://www.pbtech.co.nz/product/MBDASU22000/ASUS-PRIME-B350M-A-Socket-AM4 This page claims in the specifications section that the Ryzen Tech just recognices and works with RAMS of Frecuencys 2666/2400/2133 MHz on this motherboard. Is this right? or this Mobo will handle well 3000 Mhz Ram from Corsair Vengeance LPX? Memory AMD Ryzen™ Processors 4 x DIMMs, max. 64GB, DDR4 2666/2400/2133 MHz,ECC and non-ECC, un-buffered memory AMD 7th Generation A-series/Athlon™ Processors 4 x DIMMs, max. 64GB, DDR4 2400/2133 MHz, non-ECC un-buffered memory Dual Channel memory architecture ByTheWay: Ryzen recommends Corsair Vengeance RAM... so i though that one was fine. Correct me if I am wrong in anything. Thanks all.

Thank you all, I have read your suggestions and I will have them very present.

Hello "whoever is reading" This is my first time choosing components for what will be my first computer, so I am not entirely sure about the Watts thing. What happens is that I don't know how many watts will my equipment use, so I will write below every component for someone to review it and tell me if it is okay or lacks something or maybe if something isn't going to work with the equipment I choose. This are Amazon titles by the way: Power Supply: "EVGA SuperNOVA 550 G2, 80+ GOLD 550W, Fully Modular, EVGA ECO Mode" Motherboard: "MSI Enthuastic Gaming Intel Z170A LGA 1151 DDR4 USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard" CPU: "Intel Core i7 6700K 4.00 GHz Unlocked Quad Core Skylake Desktop Processor, Socket LGA 1151 [BX80662I76700K]" GPU: "MSI GAMING GeForce GTX 1070 8GB GDDR5 DirectX 12 VR Ready" CPU Fan: "Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120mm PWM Fan (RR-212E-20PK-R2)" RAM: "G.Skill 16GB (Dual Channel Kit) 3200MHz DDR4 Trident Z Desktop Memory (F4-3200C16D-16GTZB)" Fan: "Cooler Master SickleFlow 120 - Sleeve Bearing 120mm Blue LED Silent Fan" (Four of them I will buy) HDD: "WD Blue 3TB Desktop Hard Disk Drive - 5400 RPM SATA 6 Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5 Inch - WD30EZRZ" I'd like to know if there are components that I might not take in consideration, like say: Fan, HDD, RAM, I believe they don't consume many watts, as the CPU or GPU, but maybe they consume more than a USB Microphone for example. This is a question by the way, so if someone wants to clarify it to me, I will be obliged. Q&A 1) Is this a gaming build? Kind of, I want to use it for content creation too, thats why "I7" is there. This question may be out of topic but.... -Is there any motherboard under 250 USD that is better than "MSI Enthuastic Gaming Intel Z170A LGA 1151 DDR4 USB 3.1 ATX Motherboard"? I'd like to know. So, i think this is all, Thank you for your time reading this and eventually answering.