Troubles with CrystalDiskInfo

[MarbleHornets]

Hi, I'm currently trying to check the health of some HDD's I have lying around via CrystalDiskInfo but for some reason I've recently been having troubles with it. I have a handful of different drives by different manufactures but out of the 10 I grabbed, only 1 will actually give me the total writes/reads. Which is kindof odd for me because it's a WD Blue, but it won't even show it for a WD Green or any other brands I have. It gives me mostly all the other information, just not the writes/reads I'm using it over a external USB SATA dock for convenience sake. Is this a problem with the program or is there a work around for this?

[porina]

It might be that isn't something that is logged by all drives. You might have a better indication of the life the drive had from operating hours and restart cycles.

[Radium_Angel]

11 minutes ago, MarbleHornets said:

external USB SATA dock

That might be the issue. Some of those docks can be really sketchy

[Enderman]

Almost no HDDs record reads and writes.

That's something only SSDs usually report.

For HDDs you should look at power on hours and all the other info at the bottom, reads and writes are pretty irrelevant to lifespan.

[MarbleHornets]

8 minutes ago, Enderman said:

Almost no HDDs record reads and writes.

That's something only SSDs usually report.

For HDDs you should look at power on hours and all the other info at the bottom, reads and writes are pretty irrelevant to lifespan.

So would a better indication of health be the pending and offline sectors or is there something else I should be looking at in addition to hours?

[Enderman]

33 minutes ago, MarbleHornets said:

So would a better indication of health be the pending and offline sectors or is there something else I should be looking at in addition to hours?

Anything that has an ! or a X beside it.

There's a lot of stuff that can indicate an aging drive.