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Hello. This blasted dell XPS with it's broken motherboard. The hard drive is just a standard desktop 1tb seagate HDD from 6 or so years ago. Is 16,000 power on hours getting to the point where this drive may be failing? Pwer on count is alo almost 16k

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3 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Hello. This blasted dell XPS with it's broken motherboard. The hard drive is just a standard desktop 1tb seagate HDD from 6 or so years ago. Is 16,000 power on hours getting to the point where this drive may be failing? Pwer on count is alo almost 16k

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Bad sectors will tell all. Fire up good ol' CrystalDiskInfo and see how many there are. Fewer than 20 = dank memes my dude

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My drive has 18760 hours and 348 power on count, that really shouldn't be too much especially if it hasn't been over heated or tossed around or worked hard.

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12 minutes ago, TheCherryKing said:

Check the health of the drive with Hard Disk Sentinel. 

https://www.hdsentinel.com/

 

11 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Bad sectors will tell all. Fire up good ol' CrystalDiskInfo and see how many there are. Fewer than 20 = dank memes my dude

 

10 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

My drive has 18760 hours and 348 power on count, that really shouldn't be too much especially if it hasn't been over heated or tossed around or worked hard.

Sorry for double quote I'm on mobile can't fix it right now. That's not nessarily the best news, that means more than ram slots on this motherboard don't work. The disk seem healthy.

10 minutes ago, Ryan_Vickers said:

My drive has 18760 hours and 348 power on count, that really shouldn't be too much especially if it hasn't been over heated or tossed around or worked hard.

 

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I had a 1tb WD blue last 8-9 years before it broke so yeah you should have a few more years 

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2 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

I had a 1tb WD blue last 8-9 years before it broke so yeah you should have a few more years 

Dang! that means I can't just ghetto this board for another few months, somethings wrong with the sata controller too!

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Just now, RGProductions said:

Dang! that means I can't just ghetto this board for another few months, somethings wrong with the sata controller too!

and that was a drive that was on 24/7/330 days a year so yeah it was run a lot but didn't have much writing done to it. 

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5 minutes ago, GDRRiley said:

and that was a drive that was on 24/7/330 days a year so yeah it was run a lot but didn't have much writing done to it. 

Yeah IDK. Gonna ask in a few weather this should be repaired or replaced.

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27 minutes ago, RGProductions said:

Yeah IDK. Gonna ask in a few weather this should be repaired or replaced.

I wouldn't trust the only copy of data to it if you care about the data

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Just now, GDRRiley said:

I wouldn't trust the only copy of data to it if you care about the data

In theory it isn't... But I can't tell if the backup still works.

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You can check the health of the drive utilizing our free diagnostic tool SeaTools. As already mentioned above, just make sure you are backing up your data securely.

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On 8/16/2017 at 11:52 PM, Ryan_Vickers said:

My drive has 18760 hours and 348 power on count, that really shouldn't be too much especially if it hasn't been over heated or tossed around or worked hard.

Check this thing out, almost 65 000 hours or 7.38 years, still no bad sector problems. :D

 

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