barracuda 250 gb My ancient Barracuda 250 Gb is degrading in health every passing day but weirdly

[Multiversal]

I have this drive from like early 2010 or so, really no exact guesses here. So I just recently (this March) hooked up my drive to my 2016 PC (my present machine) and it is behaving abnormally since the past few months. As you can clearly see in the following images, it is just lethally going down in health consistently with some exceptional rises (as it just went up from 68% to 73% on 8 August). Should I feel worried about the data on it or is this curable? I mean I've put it currently on some Short and Long Self-tests as there are some reported bad sectors on it but I did the same test 2 months back and some sectors were repaired but not health and has been on the course of deterioration. What can be done now to prolong its life?

 

This drive's history:

• Used originally for the first time in 2010-ish (Athlon-powered PC) (the only primary drive back then)
• Transferred to 2012 Sempron Rig and worked quite good without any issues
• Took out of that rig in 2014 when it went rogue on me (Read/Write speeds fell back drastically due to unknown reasons and the OS on it at that moment couldn't load properly for 7/10 times) and hooked a WD Green Caviar 2 TB and kept it that way. Never used my Barracuda since then until March of this year (stored it safely after formatting it completely and losing lots of data, kept in its Antistatic cover)
• Finally swapped it into my current 2016 build (A10 7890k-powered) in March 2019 and to my surprise it performed quite well without any hiccups. This was only a matter of a month or two that it has been behaving weirdly since May. Unexpected freezes, File Explorer unresponsiveness, read/write errors, and you name it all. 

Please go through all the images below for more info on my drive and thank you for your patience and extracting some valuable time of yours.

 

Please 

 

Just in case, here's the amazon link.

[WereCatf]

25 minutes ago, D33P said:

is this curable?

No, it's not.

[Levent]

25 minutes ago, D33P said:

I have this drive from like early 2010 or so, really no exact guesses here. So I just recently (this March) hooked up my drive to my 2016 PC (my present machine) and it is behaving abnormally since the past few months. As you can clearly see in the following images, it is just lethally going down in health consistently with some exceptional rises (as it just went up from 68% to 73% on 8 August). Should I feel worried about the data on it or is this curable? I mean I've put it currently on some Short and Long Self-tests as there are some reported bad sectors on it but I did the same test 2 months back and some sectors were repaired but not health and has been on the course of deterioration. What can be done now to prolong its life?

 

Nothing.

[PianoPlayer88Key]

Looks like it's time to look for a replacement drive, and soon.  I would back that thing up yesterday.

[Multiversal]

Yea it seems so. Anyway, don't worry. I haven't kept any important data on it.

[Zodiark1593]

Kind of off topic, but I've an old, heavily used Toshiba drive I salvaged from a laptop I got in 2009. It's been in the "Caution" status (in SMART) for 7 years, and it is still running in my desktop to this day. I don't use it for anything super important, just a scratch pad drive for copying pictures from my camera in bulk before selecting the keepers, as well as to temporarily hold impractically large video files (such as Blu Ray rips) before compression.