Hard Drive's Health Continues to Decrease Every day.

[ChlorineFox]

I have a old 1TB Hard Drive and I recently use it as a boot drive, the Health of my drive at first boot is at 100% peak, but in the past days the health decreases as I always monitor it via hard drive sentinel. please help me!

[TempestCatto]

I personally don't know what you could even do. Once a drive starts to die, that's really it. Back up your data and prepare a funeral service. Being a boot drive probably didn't help its aging health, I'm sure. Get a nice SSD as a replacement.

[NelizMastr]

A 250GB SSD costs like $50-60 nowadays, it's a good time to finally ditch your spinning rust bootdrive.

[Turretgaming]

you need to back everything up NOW. Once a drive starts failing its a goner. You need to backup and replace it asap. That thing has maybe a week if your lucky before it hits 50% health and after that i wouldn't use it for a second. That time remaining thing seems off cause the rate if health lost is stupid fast.

[Pickles von Brine]

On 2/4/2019 at 7:40 AM, Turretgaming said:

you need to back everything up NOW. Once a drive starts failing its a goner. You need to backup and replace it asap. That thing has maybe a week if your lucky before it hits 50% health and after that i wouldn't use it for a second. That time remaining thing seems off cause the rate if health lost is stupid fast.

I am right there with you. When drives start getting into this state they only get worse. I have seen hard drives (Seagate and WD mainly) where if they get too many bad sectors they really can lock up bad. WDs experience firmware issues and Seagate drives can just have full on firmware locks. Better to backup now before it gets even close to that state.