Raid 0 showing "bad disk" help

[Mahbub]

I have two Samsung 850 evo 250 gb in my pc for game storage, i put them in raid o for some more faster loading time. everything is fine, windows disk manager shows its all fine, it shows up in disks..but when i open mini tool partition wizard it shows the two ssds as "bad disk" why?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What does smart data show?

 

Id probably ignore the third party tool if there aren't any other errors.

[Alex Atkin UK]

7 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

I have two Samsung 850 evo 250 gb in my pc for game storage, i put them in raid o for some more faster loading time. everything is fine, windows disk manager shows its all fine, it shows up in disks..but when i open mini tool partition wizard it shows the two ssds as "bad disk" why?

My guess would be the partition wizard is looking at the drives directly which will appear bad, as they're in the RAID 0 so not accessible directly.

[Mahbub]

7 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

My guess would be the partition wizard is looking at the drives directly which will appear bad, as they're in the RAID 0 so not accessible directly.

So like can i continue with using them in raid 0? Like so theres nothing wrong with my drives right? Because the default windows disk manager shows no error atal

[Mahbub]

13 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What does smart data show?

 

Id probably ignore the third party tool if there aren't any other errors.

I donno whats smart data.. but like the default windows disk manager shows its totally fine.. no trouble.. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, Mahbub said:

I donno whats smart data.. but like the default windows disk manager shows its totally fine.. no trouble.. 

The hdds self report diagnostic data, look at something like crystal disk info

[Mahbub]

2 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The hdds self report diagnostic data, look at something like crystal disk info

Where do i find that data? And okk lemme download crystak disk info n see what it says

[Alex Atkin UK]

10 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

So like can i continue with using them in raid 0? Like so theres nothing wrong with my drives right? Because the default windows disk manager shows no error atal

I think there's a 99% chance they are fine and that bad disk error is because it can't see a partition table.

Also, Samsung Magician should tell you the SSD health.

[Mahbub]

12 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

The hdds self report diagnostic data, look at something like crystal disk info

This is what crystal disc shows.. am i fine it shows for both the disks in raid 0...

[Mahbub]

4 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

I think there's a 99% chance they are fine and that bad disk error is because it can't see a partition table.

Also, Samsung Magician should tell you the SSD health.

This is what crystal disc shows.. am i fine it shows for both the disks in raid 0...

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

This is what crystal disc shows.. am i fine it shows for both the disks in raid 0...

IM guessing there are no io errors? If so don't worry about it.

[Mahbub]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

IM guessing there are no io errors? If so don't worry about it.

The big blue thing says good 100% is that enough.. or do i need to check anything else in there..

[Alex Atkin UK]

3 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

The big blue thing says good 100% is that enough.. or do i need to check anything else in there..

The SSDs as far as we can tell are fine.  Though it does look like one of the other drives says Caution.

[Mahbub]

8 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

The SSDs as far as we can tell are fine.  Though it does look like one of the other drives says Caution.

Thats the blue 5400 rpm hdd.. says pending sector count and uncorrectable sector..  wats does that mean?

[Alex Atkin UK]

4 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

Thats the blue 5400 rpm hdd.. says pending sector count and uncorrectable sector..  wats does that mean?

It means its had some bad blocks which were reallocated to the spare blocks reserved for that purpose, normal for an older drive.  Basically make sure you keep a backup or if totally paranoid replace it, but it could spend years in that state without any problems.

Mostly you have to watch out for those numbers increasing rapidly.  If it stays the same for weeks/months, its likely not a problem, but if it goes up it suggests the drive is starting to fail.

[Mahbub]

6 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

It means its had some bad blocks which were reallocated to the spare blocks reserved for that purpose, normal for an older drive.  Basically make sure you keep a backup or if totally paranoid replace it, but it could spend years in that state without any problems.

Mostly you have to watch out for those numbers increasing rapidly.  If it stays the same for weeks/months, its likely not a problem, but if it goes up it suggests the drive is starting to fail.

Ohh so like theres no way to rectify it?  Thru a format or something?

[Alex Atkin UK]

14 minutes ago, Mahbub said:

Ohh so like theres no way to rectify it?  Thru a format or something?

No, all these statistics are a summary of general drive health/performance.  Many of them aren't even useful to anyone but the drive manufacturer as they do not conform to any real standard for what they are supposed to mean.